Sushila Chanu
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| Full name | Sushila Chanu Pukhrambam | ||||||||||||||||||||
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25 February 1992 Manipur, India |
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| Playing position | Halfback | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2008–present | India | 121 | (4) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Last updated on: 27 April 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Sushila Chanu Pukhrambam (born 25 February 1992) is an Indian field hockey player and is the current captain of Indian national hockey team. Born in Imphal, Manipur, she began playing hockey at the age of eleven, and was soon selected for the national camp. Chanu has a total of 121 international caps to her credit.
Chanu rose to prominence in 2013, when she led the junior women's team to a bronze medal finish at the Women's Hockey Junior World Cup at Mönchengladbach. She then made her debut in the senior national team, and was part of the squad that won the bronze medal at the 2014 Asian Games held at Incheon.
Chanu gathered attention for her performance at the 2014-15 World Hocker League Semifinals where the Indian team updated higher ranked teams including, most notably Japan, for a fifth place finish. She also led the team at Rio Olympics. She plays as a halfback for the team.
Sushila Chanu was born on 25 February 1992 in Imphal, Manipur, to Pukhrambam Shyamsundar and Pukhrambam Ongbi Lata. Her father is a driver and her mother is a home maker. Her great grandfather, Pukhrambam Angangcha was a successful polo player. Chanu is the second born child in the family; she has an elder sister and a younger brother. Drawn towards sports from a young age, Chanu's interest further increased after she went to watch a football match at the 1999 National Games hosted in Manipur. She began playing hockey at a nearby stadium the age of eleven, after being encouraged by her uncle to pick up the sport. He got her enrolled at the Posterior Hockey Academy in Manipur, in 2002. Chanu began playing in the Inter-school tournaments, and subsequently selected for the team participating in Sub-junior and Junior National Hockey Championships. She is employed in the Central Mumbai Railway as a senior ticket collector, and resides in the Railways department's accommodations in Sion, Mumbai.
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