Farewell to hockey stalwart YP Vohra

Former hockey participant and administrator YP Vohra, 92, breathed his final in Panchkula on Friday after a center failure because of post-Covid headaches. Vohra, whose elder brother SN Vohra too was once a hockey participant, was once the founding secretary normal of Chandigarh Olympic Affiliation except a former normal secretary of Hockey Chandigarh. A modern of triple Olympics gold medallist overdue Balbir Singh Senior, Vohra was once ever provide at the Chandigarh hockey scene because the 1950s first as a participant and later as a hockey administrator.

“My uncle was once discharged from medical institution after recuperating from Covid final week however his situation worsened on Thursday night time, and he breathed his final Friday morning,” shared Anil Vohra, normal secretary, Hockey Chandigarh. Vohra’s grandson Manan Vohra is the captain of the Chandigarh staff and is recently enjoying for Rajasthan Royals.

Vohra was once in the back of the formation of Chandigarh Olympic Affiliation within the 1970s. Later in 2000, he took over because the secretary of the then Chandigarh Hockey Affiliation after the dying of his elder brother SN Vohra sooner than operating for Hockey Chandigarh in 2009. “Vohra was once an extraordinary mixture of a just right participant and a person of top integrity like Balbir Singh Senior. Each time the Chandigarh hockey groups confronted any scarcity of price range, he would lend a hand. In 1975, when Balbir Singh Senior hosted the Indian hockey staff camp at Chandigarh, my father, and the Vohra brothers would spend hours discussing plans for the staff with Balbir ji,” shared SK Gupta, former director sports activities, PU.

Calling Vohra peerless, former Indian goalkeeper Baljit Dadhwal recalls how in 2009, when he suffered an eye fixed damage and was once hospitalised in Delhi, Vohra got here to satisfy him. ‘‘He instructed me how Rana Sanga fought many battles with greater than 80 accidents and I too may just make a comeback. Whilst the Sports activities Ministry and Hockey India undertook the bills of my remedy, Vohra sir passed me some cash…He was once like a father determine for all hockey gamers right here,” mentioned Dadhwal.

Vohra was once additionally a certified hockey umpire. Former FIH umpire Satinder Sharma recalls how Vohra was once all the time willing to proportion his wisdom with scholars. ‘‘Later in my global umpiring profession, on every occasion I confronted some doubts, I’d search his steering,” mentioned Sharma.