Mhow - Sports and Eminent Sportspersons Associated With Mhow

Sports and Eminent Sportspersons Associated With Mhow

• Shankar Lakshman, Indian hockey goalkeeper from Mhow (Indore).

• J.G. Grieg(1871–1958): This cricketer who played most of his cricket in India was born in Mhow. He played for the Europeans in the Bombay Presidency tournament (later known as the Triangulars and later the Quadrangulars and yet later the Pentangulars) and for Hampshire in county cricket. He was affectionately called 'Jungly' Grieg.

• Vijay Kumar (sport shooter) (16 Dogra Regiment, Indian Army) won a silver medal at the London Olympics 2012 in the 25m rapid fire pistol event. He has been posted at the Army Marksmanship Unit (AMU) Mhow since 2003.

• Kishan Lal, captain of Indian Hockey Team which won gold at the 1948 London Olympics belonged to Mhow.In the domestic circuit he played for the Indian Railways.

• In August 2004 Col (then Major) Rajyawardhan Singh Rathore of the Grenadier Regiment won a silver medal in the shooting event of the Athens Olympics. At that time Major (now Col) Rathore was posted to the Army Marksmanship Unit (AMU) Mhow.

• The Indian shooting team for the Commonwealth Games 2010 included 36 shooters of which nine were from the Army Marksmanship Unit, AMU. These were: Seema Tomar, Vijay Kumar, Gurpreet Singh, AD Peoples, Imran Hasan Khan, C.K. Choudhary, Hariom Singh, Sushil Ghaley, Praveen Dahiya. 4 of these nine shooters won 5 Gold, 2 Silver and a Bronze medal either individually or in pairs.

• The English cricketer and footballer Denis Compton was stationed in Mhow during World War II and he had played cricket for the Holkar (Indore) team in the Ranji Trophy (India's National Cricket Championship).

• Amateur sportsman Rajesh Jauhri, an eminent journalist by profession had won four medals in the All India GV Mavlankar Shooting Championship i.e. 2 Gold, 1 Silver and 1 Bronze medal. He has consecutively won the gold medals in this event in 2011 & 2012.