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{{Infobox field hockey player<br />
| name = Kulbir Bhaura<br />
| birth_name = Kulbir Singh Bhaura<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|15 October 1955}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Jullundur]], [[East Punjab|Punjab]], [[India]]<br />
| medaltemplates =<br />
{{MedalSport | Men's [[field hockey]] }}<br />
{{MedalCountry | {{GBR2}} }}<br />
{{MedalComp | [[Field hockey at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]}}<br />
{{MedalGold | [[Field hockey at the 1988 Summer Olympics|1988 Seoul]] | [[Field hockey at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament|Team competition]] }}<br />
{{MedalBronze | [[Field hockey at the 1984 Summer Olympics|1984 Los Angeles]] | [[Field hockey at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament|Team competition]] }}<br />
{{MedalCountry | {{ENG}} }}<br />
{{MedalComp | [[Hockey World Cup]] }}<br />
{{MedalSilver | [[1986 Men's Hockey World Cup|1986 London]] | Team competition }}<br />
}}<br />
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'''Kulbir Singh Bhaura''' (born 15 October 1955) is a British former [[field hockey]] player.<br />
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He was a member of the gold winning [[Great Britain men's national field hockey team|Great Britain]] squad at the [[1988 Summer Olympics]] in Seoul. Four years earlier, at the [[1984 Summer Olympics]] in Los Angeles, he secured the bronze medal with his team. Bhaura was also a member of the Silver medal-winning team in 1986 World cup in London and 1987 European Cup in Moscow. He played at international level for nine years for England and Great Britain. <br />
<ref>{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bh/kulbir-bhaura-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418040930/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bh/kulbir-bhaura-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |accessdate=8 March 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Kulbir Singh Bhaura |website=SikhHockeyOlympians.com |url=http://www.sikhhockeyolympians.com/Player%20Profiles/KulbirSinghBhaura.html |accessdate=20 November 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140728154950/http://www.sikhhockeyolympians.com/Player%20Profiles/KulbirSinghBhaura.html |archivedate=28 July 2014 }}</ref> A proud moment was when he was selected to represent World XI to play against Australia in 1987.<br />
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Bhaura was born in [[Jullundur]], [[East Punjab]], [[India]] into a [[Sikh]] family and came to England around the mid 1960s. After winning gold in 1988, he started working within the hockey industry, in marketing and developing equipment. He has visited hockey factories in [[India]] and [[Pakistan]], developing hockey and cricket equipment under the brand name Pantheon. He was also involved in developing goalkeeping equipment and owned a ball manufacturing plant, "Chingford Balls". Bhaura owned THE PRO SHOP, specialising in hockey equipment and team-wear, based in Brentford (W London) and Hitchin (Hertfordshire). He was a European Distributor of the Gryphon Hockey brand since 1996. After Selling the Retail, Wholesale and Manufacturing operations in 2019, he now enjoys his retirement. <br />
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Bhaura is a prominent member of the Indian Gymkhana club based in Osterley in W London and continues to play and coach hockey there to this day.<br />
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