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{{Infobox field hockey player<br />
| name = Kishan Bahadur Pathak<br />
| image = Krishan Pathak in January 2024.jpg <br />
| caption = Kishan Pathak in 2024 <br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1997|4|24|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Kapurthala]], [[Punjab, India]]<br />
| height = 1.7 m<ref>{{cite web |title=PATHAK Krishan |url=https://www.worldcup2018.hockey/men/players/pathak-krishan__70523__4212 |website=www.worldcup2018.hockey |publisher=[[International Hockey Federation]] |accessdate=28 February 2019}}</ref><br />
| position = Goalkeeper<br />
| currentclub = <br />
| years1 = <br />
| clubs1 = Hockey Punjab<br />
| years2 = <br />
| clubs2 = Petroleum Sports Promotion Board<br />
| years3 = <br />
| clubs3 = Indian Oil Corporation<br />
| years4 = 2024–<br />
| clubs4 = [[Kalinga Lancers]]<br />
| nationalyears1 = 2016<br />
| nationalteam1 = [[India men's national under-21 field hockey team|India U21]]<br />
| nationalcaps1 = 1<br />
| nationalgoals1 = 0<br />
| nationalyears2 = 2018–<br />
| nationalteam2 = [[India men's national field hockey team|India]]<br />
| nationalcaps2 = 156<br />
| nationalgoals2 = 0<br />
| medaltemplates = <br />
{{MedalSport|Men's [[field hockey]]}}<br />
{{MedalCountry|{{IND}}}}<br />
{{MedalCompetition|[[Hockey Champions Trophy|Champions Trophy]]}}<br />
{{MedalSilver|[[2018 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy|2018 Breda]]|}}<br />
{{MedalCompetition|[[Asian Games]]}}<br />
{{MedalGold|[[2022 Asian Games|2022 Hangzhou]]|[[Field hockey at the 2022 Asian Games – Men's tournament|Team]]}}<br />
{{MedalBronze|[[2018 Asian Games|2018 Jakarta]]|[[Field hockey at the 2018 Asian Games – Men's tournament|Team]]}}<br />
{{MedalCompetition|[[Men's Hockey Asia Cup|Asia Cup]]}}<br />
{{MedalGold|[[2025 Men's Hockey Asia Cup|2025 Rajgir]]|}}<br />
{{MedalCompetition|[[Men's Asian Champions Trophy|Asian Champions Trophy]]}}<br />
{{MedalGold|[[2018 Men's Asian Champions Trophy|2018 Muscat]]|}}<br />
{{MedalGold|[[2023 Men's Asian Champions Trophy|2023 Chennai]]|}}<br />
{{MedalGold|[[2024 Men's Asian Champions Trophy|2024 Hulunbuir]]|}}<br />
{{MedalBronze|[[2021 Men's Asian Champions Trophy|2021 Dhaka]]|}}<br />
{{MedalCompetition|[[Hockey at the Commonwealth Games|Commonwealth Games]]}}<br />
{{MedalSilver|[[2022 Commonwealth Games|2022 Birmingham]]|[[Hockey at the 2022 Commonwealth Games – Men's tournament|Team]]}}<br />
{{MedalCompetition|[[Men's FIH Hockey Junior World Cup|Junior World Cup]]}}<br />
{{MedalGold|[[2016 Men's Hockey Junior World Cup|2016 Lucknow]]|}}<br />
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'''Kishan Bahadur Pathak''' (born 24 April 1997) is an Indian [[field hockey]] player who plays as a goalkeeper for the [[India men's national field hockey team|Indian national team]].<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Pathak was born on 24 April 1997 in [[Kapurthala]], [[Punjab, India|Punjab]]. He is of [[Nepalis|Nepalese descent]]; his parents migrated from Lugdi village in [[Nepal]] to Punjab in 1990. His ancestral village is about six hours away from the capital [[Kathmandu]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Friends in deed aid Krishan in tragedy|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/sport/other/2016/Nov/26/friends-in-deed-aid-krishan-in-tragedy-1542814.html|work=The New Indian Express|date=26 November 2016}}</ref> Despite not being interested in the sport, Pathak had joined the Surjit Hockey Academy in [[Jalandhar]] when he was 12 at the insistence of his father.<ref name =toi/> Pathak's mother died when he was 12, while his father Tek Bahadur Pathak, a crane operator, died of a heart attack in 2016.<ref name =toi>{{cite news |last1=Raj |first1=Pratyush |title=Sreejesh's understudy, Krishan worked at construction sites |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/asian-games/sreejeshs-understudy-krishan-worked-at-construction-sites/articleshow/65372106.cms |accessdate=28 October 2018 |work=The Times of India |date=12 August 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Iyer |first1=Ravi |title=Friends in deed aid Krishan in tragedy |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/sport/other/2016/nov/26/friends-in-deed-aid-krishan-in-tragedy-1542814.html |access-date=28 October 2018 |work=The New Indian Express |date=26 November 2016}}</ref><ref>[https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/hockey/despite-setbacks-krishan-pathak-keeps-faith-junior-world-cup-4419617 Junior Hockey World Cup: Despite setbacks, goalkeeper Krishan Pathak keeps faith]</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Pathak was part of the Indian junior team that won the [[2016 Men's Hockey Junior World Cup]] in [[Lucknow]]. He was then selected in the India A team for the [[2017 Men's Australian Hockey League]]. He made his India senior team debut in January 2018 when the team participated in a four-team invitational tournament in New Zealand.<ref>{{cite news |title=Fit-again PR Sreejesh named in India squad for New Zealand tour |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/hockey/story/hockey-india-pr-sreejesh-squad-new-zealand-tour-manpreet-singh-1129755-2018-01-08 |accessdate=28 October 2018 |work=India Today |date=8 January 2018}}</ref> Pathak found a place in the squad for [[2018 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup]] as India's first-choice goalkeeper [[P. R. Sreejesh]] was rested. He then played as a reserve goalkeeper in the [[2018 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy]] where India won the silver medal and the [[2018 Asian Games]] where India won bronze.{{fact|date=July 2022}}<br />
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Pathak was the reserve goalkeeper at the [[Field hockey at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament|2020 Olympic Games]] in Tokyo where India won the bronze medal.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jal |first1=Pratyush Raj |title=Tokyo Olympics: 9 players from India's bronze-medal winning hockey team from Jalandhar's Surjit Academy |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/tokyo-olympics/story/surjit-singh-academy-training-ground-for-9-of-india-bronze-medal-winning-hockey-team-1837302-2021-08-05 |access-date=7 August 2021 |work=India Today |date=5 August 2021 |language=en}}</ref> Finally he won gold medal in [[2022 Asian Games]] in Hangzhou.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Asian Games Results |url=https://info.hangzhou2022.cn/en/results/hockey/result-men-fnl-000200-.htm |access-date=6 October 2023 |website=2022 Asian Games, Hangzhou |archive-date=8 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231008232508/https://info.hangzhou2022.cn/en/results/hockey/result-men-fnl-000200-.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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== Award ==<br />
Kishan Pathak(son of santosh kumar pathak, mother of vibha devi) received the Arjuna Award from the President of India on 9 January 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports |url=http://pib.gov.in/PressNoteDetails.aspx?NoteId=151772 |access-date=2024-01-09 |website=pib.gov.in |language=en}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://www.hockeyindia.org/players/krishan-b-pathak-profile-985 Krishan Pathak] at [[Hockey India]]<br />
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