M. M. Somaya

Indian field hockey player

M. M. SomayaPersonal information

Full name|  Maneyapanda Muthanna Somaya
Born|  (1959-05-08) 8 May 1959 (age 65)
Madikeri, Mysore State
(now Karnataka), India[1]
Playing position|  Halfback
National team
Years|  Team|  Apps|  (Gls)
|  India|  |

Medal record

Men's field hockey
Olympic Games
| 1980 Moscow | Team
Asian Games
|  1982 Delhi | Team
|  1986 Seoul | Team
Champions Trophy
| 1982 Amstelveen | Team

Maneyapanda Muthanna Somaya (born 8 May 1959) is a former Indian field hockey player and was employed with Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd. As a field hockey player, he was captain of the Indian national team and played as a halfback. He played in 3 Olympic Games in 1980, 1984 and 1988. He was a member of the Gold medal winning team in 1980 and captained the Indian team at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. [2][3]

Somaya was a member of India squad that won the gold medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.[4] He went on to play in two more Olympic Games — the 1984, and the 1988, captaining the side in the latter event.[5] Somaya had a successful corporate career after his playing days with Bharat Petroleum. In 2007, he was bestowed the Life Time Achievement award by the Petroleum Sports Promotion Board.[4] He is also a recipient of Arjuna Award.[6]

## Biography

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Somaya studied at St. Mary's School in Mumbai (then Bombay) and completed his college education in the city's St. Xavier's College. He credited the "Jesuit system of education, where they place equal focus on sports, academics and extra-curricular activities" for his career in sports. He was picked in the national squad for the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

In 1983, for the Silver Jubilee 10-Nation Cup in Hong Kong, Somaya was named captain.He was also captain of the Indian team at the 1985 Asia Cup, Dhaka. He captained the team that won the Peugeot Cup, Nairobi, 1988 and also led the team in the drawn India-Pak series in 1988. [7] Somaya's only goal in the 1986 World Cup came against Spain in the group stage match.[8]

Somaya was employed with Bharat Petroleum (BPCL) during his playing days, and after retirement, went through several programs from institutions such as Indian School of Business, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Arthur D. Little. He retired in 2017 as executive director of BPCL's aviation fueling and lubricant businesses.[9]

## See also

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* List of Indian hockey captains in Olympics
* Field hockey in India

## References

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1. ^ "Olympic Captains Of India". Hockey India. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "M. M. Somaya Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
3. ^ "Olympians join forces to wrest control of MHA". The Hindu. 24 June 2009. Retrieved 4 December 2009.
4. ^ a b "Jaspal gets Sportsperson of the Year award". The Hindu. 10 August 2007. Archived from the original on 5 November 2007. Retrieved 4 December 2009.
5. ^ "'It feels great to put on India jersey'". Indian Express. 29 February 2008. Archived from the original on 8 July 2008. Retrieved 4 December 2009.
6. ^ "Arjuna Awardees". Archived from the original on 25 December 2007. Retrieved 4 December 2009.
7. ^ "Five in a row". The Straits Times. Reuters. 18 December 1983. p. 34. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
8. ^ "Second Indian slump". The Straits Times. 9 October 1986. p. 24. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
9. ^ Sawai, Akshay (23 July 2021). "How Indian Olympic gold medallist MM Somaya also achieved corporate success". Moneycontrol. Retrieved 19 May 2022.

## External links

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* M. M. Somaya at Olympedia

India squads

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India squad – 1980 Summer Olympics – Gold medal (8th Title)

* 1 Schofield (GK)
* 2 Chettri
* 3 Dung Dung
* 4 R. Singh
* 5 D. Singh
* 6 G. Singh
* 7 R. P. Singh
* 8 Baskaran (c)
* 9 Somaya
* 10 Kaushik
* 11 Kumar
* 12 Fernandes
* 13 Rana
* 14 Shahid
* 15 Iqbal
* 16 Sodhi
* Coach: Balkrishan Singh

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India squad – 1982 Asian Games – Silver medal

* 1 Syed Ali
* 2 Joaquim Carvalho
* 3 Rajinder Singh Jr.
* 4 Mervyn Fernandis
* 5 Jagdeep Singh Gill
* 6 Marcellus Gomes
* 7 Zafar Iqbal
* 8 Romeo James
* 9 Charanjit Kumar
* 10 Mir Ranjan Negi
* 11 Mohammed Shahid
* 12 Vineet Kumar Sharma
* 13 Gurmail Singh
* 14 Rajinder Singh
* 15 M. M. Somaya
* 16 Manohar Topno

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India squad – 1982 Champions Trophy – 3rd place

* 1 Romeo James
* 2 Rajinder Singh Jr.
* 3 Manohar Topno
* 4 M. M. Somaya
* 5 Joaquim Carvalho
* 6 Stanselas Bara
* 7 Charanjit Kumar
* 8 Mervyn Fernandis
* 9 Surinder Singh Sodhi (c)
* 10 Mohammed Shahid
* 11 Zafar Iqbal
* 12 Anand Mandapaka
* 13 Tejinder Singh
* 14 Gurmail Singh
* 15 Jagdeep Singh
* 16 Jalaluddin Rizvi

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India squad – 1984 Summer Olympics – 5th place

* 1 Romeo James
* 2 Manohar Topno
* 3 Vineet Kumar Sharma
* 4 M. M. Somaya
* 5 Joaquim Carvalho
* 6 Rajinder Singh
* 7 Charanjit Kumar
* 8 Mervyn Fernandis
* 9 Hardeep Singh
* 10 Mohammed Shahid
* 11 Zafar Iqbal (c)
* 12 Pangambam Nilakomol Singh
* 13 Iqbaljit Singh Grewal
* 14 Ravinder Pal Singh
* 15 Marcellus Gomes
* 16 Jalal-ud-Din Syed Rizvi
* Coach: Gurdial Bhahgu Singh

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India squad – 1986 Asian Games – Bronze medal

* 1 Abdul Aziz
* 2 Jagdeep Singh Gill
* 3 Rajinder Singh Rawat
* 4 Mohammed Shahid
* 5 Vineet Kumar Sharma
* 6 Balwinder Singh
* 7 Hardeep Singh
* 8 Jagbir Singh
* 9 Mohinder Pal Singh
* 10 Nilakomol Singh
* 11 Pargat Singh
* 12 Ram Prakash Singh
* 13 Thoiba Singh
* 14 Tikken Singh
* 15 M. M. Somaya
* 16 B. K. Subramani

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India squad – 1988 Summer Olympics – 6th place

* 1 Rajinder Singh Rawat
* 2 Pargat Singh
* 3 Ashok Kumar
* 4 Mohinder Pal Singh
* 5 M. M. Somaya (c)
* 6 Vivek Singh
* 7 Sujit Kumar
* 8 Subramani Balada Kalaiah
* 9 Mohammed Shahid
* 10 Jude Felix Sebastian
* 11 Balwinder Singh
* 12 Mervyn Fernandis
* 13 Thoiba Singh
* 14 Gundeep Kumar
* 15 Jagbir Singh
* 16 Mark Patterson
* Coach: M. P. Ganesh

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