Rani Rampal

Rani Rampal, born on 4 December 1994 in Shahabad Markanda in the Kurukshetra district of Haryana, is an Indian field hockey coach and former player who played as a forward and sometimes as a midfielder. Her father worked as a cart-puller, and she trained at the Shahabad Hockey Academy under the coach Baldev Singh. At fifteen she was the youngest member of the national squad at the 2010 World Cup, where she scored seven goals. She captained India at the 2018 Asian Games, where the team won silver, and led the side to the semifinal at the Tokyo Olympics, a first for the Indian women. She played 212 international matches, scored 134 goals, and received the Arjuna Award in 2016 and the Padma Shri in 2020.