Farewell to hockey stalwart YP Vohra

Former hockey participant and administrator YP Vohra, 92, breathed his final in Panchkula on Friday after a coronary heart failure as a consequence of post-Covid problems. Vohra, whose elder brother SN Vohra too was a hockey participant, was the founding secretary normal of Chandigarh Olympic Association other than a former normal secretary of Hockey Chandigarh. A recent of triple Olympics gold medallist late Balbir Singh Senior, Vohra was ever current on the Chandigarh hockey scene for the reason that Nineteen Fifties first as a participant and later as a hockey administrator.
“My uncle was discharged from hospital after recovering from Covid last week but his condition worsened on Thursday evening, and he breathed his last Friday morning,” shared Anil Vohra, normal secretary, Hockey Chandigarh. Vohra’s grandson Manan Vohra is the captain of the Chandigarh group and is presently taking part in for Rajasthan Royals.
Vohra was behind the formation of Chandigarh Olympic Association within the Seventies. Later in 2000, he took over because the secretary of the then Chandigarh Hockey Association after the loss of life of his elder brother SN Vohra earlier than working for Hockey Chandigarh in 2009. “Vohra was a rare combination of a good player and a man of high integrity like Balbir Singh Senior. Whenever the Chandigarh hockey teams faced any shortage of funds, he would help. In 1975, when Balbir Singh Senior hosted the Indian hockey team camp at Chandigarh, my father, and the Vohra brothers would spend hours discussing plans for the team with Balbir ji,” shared SK Gupta, former director sports activities, PU.
Calling Vohra peerless, former Indian goalkeeper Baljit Dadhwal remembers how in 2009, when he suffered an eye fixed damage and was hospitalised in Delhi, Vohra got here to fulfill him. ‘‘He advised me how Rana Sanga fought many battles with greater than 80 accidents and I too may make a comeback. While the Sports Ministry and Hockey India undertook the bills of my remedy, Vohra sir handed me some cash…He was like a father determine for all hockey gamers right here,” mentioned Dadhwal.
Vohra was additionally a professional hockey umpire. Former FIH umpire Satinder Sharma remembers how Vohra was at all times eager to share his data with college students. ‘‘Later in my worldwide umpiring profession, every time I confronted some doubts, I’d search his steerage,” mentioned Sharma.