Kalbir Takher

Kalbir Takher
Personal information
Born (1968-08-03) 3 August 1968
Wolverhampton, England
Height178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight74 kg (163 lb)
Sport
SportField hockey
Positionmidfielder
Senior career
Years Team Caps Goals
1985–1988 Wombourne - -
1988–2001 Cannock - -
National team
Years Team Caps Goals
1995–1996 Great Britain 44 -
1993–1998 England 52 -
Medal record
Men's field hockey
Representing  England
European Championship
Bronze medal – third place1995 DublinTeam

Kalbir Singh Takher (born 3 August 1968) is a former field hockey player, who participated in the 1996 Summer Olympics for Great Britain.[1][2]

Biography

Kalbir, nicknamed Kali was educated at Highfields School in Wolverhampton and studied at the University of Wolverhampton.[3]

Playing for Wombourne Hockey Club he was called up for England U18 duty in 1986.[4] For the 1988/89 season he left Wombourne to play club hockey for Cannock in the Men's England Hockey League. Taker made his England debut on 3 April 1993 against Germany and made his Great Britain debut on 9 December 1995 against Belgium.[3]

Still at Cannock, he participated in the 1994 Men's Hockey World Cup[5] and represented Great Britain at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.[6] He would later become the captain of Cannock.[7]

After retiring from playing he coached hockey for a number of clubs and ages.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Kalbir Singh Takher". Team GB.
  2. ↑ "Kalbir Singh Takher". Sports-Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020.
  3. 1 2 "Kalbir Singh Takher". Sikhs in Hockey. Retrieved 13 June 2025.
  4. ↑ "Staffs trio in England hockey call". Wolverhampton Express and Star. 18 March 1986. Retrieved 13 June 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ↑ "Bobby's call Down Under". Hoylake & West Kirby News. 3 August 1994. Retrieved 13 June 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ↑ "Biographical Information". Olympedia. Retrieved 12 June 2025.
  7. ↑ "Takher:You ain't seen nothing yet". Cannock Chase Post. 14 January 1999. Retrieved 13 June 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  8. ↑ "Training Schedule 2022 – 2023 – Wycombe Hockey Club3".
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