Eliza Nelson

Personal information

Born

27 September 1956 (age 67)
Pune, Maharashtra, India

Occupation

Medal record

Women's field hockey

Representing India
Asian Games
	1982 Delhi	Team competition

Eliza Nelson, née Eliza Mendonca (born 27 September 1956), is an Indian field hockey player^[1] and a former captain of the women's national field hockey team of India.^[2] She received the Arjuna Award in 1981^[3] and the Government of India awarded her the fourth highest Indian civilian honour of Padma Shri in 1983.^[4]

Family

Eliza was born in a Goan family at Pune, Maharashtra. She has two brothers, Augustine and Felix, and two sisters, Irene and Salome. She married Darryl, a hockey player from Kerala, and lives a retired life in Pune. She has two daughters. Andrea is a director of a pharma firm in the US and Rebecca is a fashion designer in Mumbai.^[5]

Career

Eliza Nelson joined the Western Railway hockey team in 1977. And she played for the Indian Railways^[2] She led the Indian national team that won the gold medal at the 9th Asian Games held at New Delhi in 1982.^[6] She was also a member of the team that secured fourth place at the Moscow 1980 Summer Olympics.^[2]^[6] In 2001, she became the Sports Officer of Central Railway.^[5]

References

^ "Indian Sports Portal". Indian Sports Portal. 2015. Archived from the original on 10 July 2015. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Eliza Nelson". Sports Reference. 2015. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
^ "Arjuna Awardees List". News Choupal. 6 August 2010. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
^ "Padma Shri" (PDF). Padma Shri. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
^ ^a ^b "INDIAN HOCKEY'S GOLDEN GIRL ELIZA NELSON". Stick2Hockey. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
^ ^a ^b "Poor planning cost us medal in 1980 Olympics". Times of India. 25 July 2012. Retrieved 9 July 2015.

External links

Eliza Nelson at Olympedia
Asian Women's Hockey : Hardwork pays dividends, Sportsworld 1982

v t e Recipients of Padma Shri in Sports
1950s	Balbir Singh Sr. (1957) K. D. Singh (1958) Mihir Sen (1959) Milkha Singh (1959)
1960s	Vijay Hazare (1960) Jasu Patel (1960) Arati Saha (1960) Nari Contractor (1962) Sonam Gyatso (1962) Ramanathan Krishnan (1962) Gostha Pal (1962) Polly Umrigar (1962) Syed Mushtaq Ali (1963) M. J. Gopalan (1964) Nawang Gombu (1964) Charanjit Singh (1964) H. P. S. Ahluwalia (1965) Avtar Singh Cheema (1965) D. B. Deodhar (1965) Phu Dorjee (1965) Wilson Jones (1965) Verghese Kurien (1965) Harish Chandra Singh Rawat (1965) Chandra Prakash Vohra (1965) Sonam Wangyal (1965) Kishan Lal (1966) Narendra Kumar (1965) Shankar Lakshman (1967) Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (1967) Gurdial Singh (1967) Prithipal Singh (1967) Chandu Borde (1969)
1970s	Bishan Singh Bedi (1970) Moin-ul-Haq (1970) E. A. S. Prasanna (1970) Leslie Claudius (1971) Sailen Manna (1971) Ghaus Mohammad (1971) Chandgi Ram (1971) Kamaljeet Sandhu (1971) Gundappa Viswanath (1971) Harsh Vardhan Bahuguna (1972) B. S. Chandrasekhar (1972) Ajit Wadekar (1972) Farokh Engineer (1973) Pankaj Roy (1975) Roshan Lal Anand (1976) Meena Shah (1977)
1980s	Vasudevan Baskaran (1981) Syed Kirmani (1982) Kapil Dev (1982) Prakash Padukone (1982) Vijay Amritraj (1983) Bahadur Singh Chauhan (1983) Guru Hanuman (1983) Eliza Nelson (1983) Chand Ram (1983) Kaur Singh (1983) Raghubir Singh (1983) Satpal Singh (1983) M. D. Valsamma (1983) Geeta Zutshi (1983) Charles Borromeo (1984) Phu Dorjee (1984) Chuni Goswami (1984) D. K. Khullar (1984) Bachendri Pal (1984) Omprakesh Agrawal (1985) P. T. Usha (1985) Anupama Gokhale (1986) Swaroop Kishen (1986) Geet Sethi (1986) Mohammad Shahid (1986) Bhagyashree Thipsay (1987) Dilip Vengsarkar (1987) Viswanathan Anand (1988) Mohammad Azharuddin (1988)
1990s	Chandraprabha Aitwal (1990) P. K. Banerjee (1990) Premchand Degra (1990) Gulshan Rai (1990) Jaman Lal Sharma (1990) Taranath Narayan Shenoy (1990) Selma D'Silva (1991) Aspy Adajania (1992) Ajit Pal Singh (1992) Sriram Singh (1992) Hakam Singh (1992) Shiny Abraham (1998) Ramesh Krishnan (1998) Lila Ram (1998) Pargat Singh (1998) Karnam Malleswari (1999) Sachin Tendulkar (1999)
2000s	Santosh Yadav (2000) Mahesh Bhupathi (2001) Malathi Krishnamurthy Holla (2001) Bhuvneshwari Kumari (2001) Leander Paes (2001) Dhanraj Pillay (2001) Sunita Rani (2001) Diana Edulji (2002) Jaspal Rana (2002) Mukesh Kumar (2003) Gopal Purushottam Phadke (2003) Kanhaya Lal Pokhriyal (2003) Jyotirmoyee Sikdar (2003) Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan (2003) K. M. Beenamol (2004) Gurmayum Anita Devi (2004) Rahul Dravid (2004) Sourav Ganguly (2004) Anju Bobby George (2004) S. P. Nimbalkar (2004) Dilip Tirkey (2004) Pullela Gopichand (2005) Anil Kumble (2005) Gurbachan Singh Randhawa (2005) Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (2005) Rachel Thomas (2005) Madhumita Bisht (2006) Mohan Singh Gunjyal (2006) Mary Kom (2006) Sania Mirza (2006) Bahadur Singh Sagoo (2006) Koneru Humpy (2007) Jeev Milkha Singh (2007) Bhaichung Bhutia (2008) Bula Choudhury (2008) Pankaj Advani (2009) MS Dhoni (2009) Balbir Singh Kullar (2009) Harbhajan Singh (2009)
2010s	Ramakant Achrekar (2010) Narain Karthikeyan (2010) Saina Nehwal (2010) Virender Sehwag (2010) Vijender Singh (2010) Ignace Tirkey (2010) Kunjarani Devi (2011) Sushil Kumar (2011) VVS Laxman (2011) Shital Mahajan (2011) Gagan Narang (2011) Krishna Poonia (2011) Harbhajan Singh (mountaineer) (2011) S. M. Arif (2012) Ravi Chaturvedi (2012) Jhulan Goswami (2012) Zafar Iqbal (field hockey) (2012) Devendra Jhajharia (2012) Limba Ram (2012) Prabhakar Vaidya (2012) Premlata Agrawal (2013) Yogeshwar Dutt (2013) Vijay Kumar (2013) Girisha Nagarajegowda (2013) Dingko Singh (2013) Bajrang Lal Takhar (2013) Anjum Chopra (2014) Sunil Dabas (2014) Love Raj Singh Dharmshaktu (2014) Dipika Pallikal (2014) H. Boniface Prabhu (2014) Yuvraj Singh (2014) Mamta Sodha (2014) Saba Anjum Karim (2015) Mithali Raj (2015) P. V. Sindhu (2015) Sardara Singh (2015) Arunima Sinha (2015) Sushil Doshi (2016) Deepika Kumari (2016) Vikas Gowda (2017) Dipa Karmakar (2017) Virat Kohli (2017) Deepa Malik (2017) Sakshi Malik (2017) Shekhar Naik (2017) P. R. Sreejesh (2017) Mariyappan Thangavelu (2017) Saikhom Mirabai Chanu (2018) Somdev Devvarman (2018) Murlikant Petkar (2018) Srikanth Kidambi (2018) Sunil Chhetri (2019) Harika Dronavalli (2019) Gautam Gambhir (2019) Sharath Kamal (2019) Bombayla Devi Laishram (2019) Bajrang Punia (2019) Prashanti Singh (2019) Ajay Thakur (2019)
2020s	Oinam Bembem Devi (2020) M. P. Ganesh (2020) Zaheer Khan (2020) Jitu Rai (2020) Tarundeep Rai (2020) Rani Rampal (2020) Anitha Pauldurai (2021) Anshu Jamsenpa (2021) Mouma Das (2021) Sudha Singh (2021) Virender Singh (2021) K. Y. Venkatesh (2021) Sumit Antil (2022) Pramod Bhagat (2022) Neeraj Chopra (2022) Sankaranarayana Menon (2022) Faisal Ali Dar (2022) Vandana Katariya (2022) Avani Lekhara (2022) Brahmanand Sankhwalkar (2022) S. R. D. Prasad (2023) K. Shanathoiba Sharma (2023) Gurcharan Singh (2023) Joshna Chinappa (2024) Rohan Bopanna (2024) Purnima Mahato (2024) Harbinder Singh (2024) Satendra Singh Lohiya (2024) Gaurav Khanna (2024) Uday Vishwanath Deshpande (2024)

v t e India squad – 1980 Summer Olympics – 4th place
1 Margaret Toscano 2 Sudha Chaudhry 3 Gangotri Bhandari 4 Rekha Mundphan 5 Rupa Kumari Saini (c) 6 Varsha Soni 7 Eliza Nelson 8 Prem Maya Sonir 9 Nazleen Madraswalla 10 Selma D'Silva 11 Lorraine Fernandes 12 Harpreet Gill 13 Balwinder Kaur Bhatia 14 Nisha Sharma Coach: Arnavaz Damania

v t e India squad – 1982 Asian Games – Gold medal (1st Title)
1 Fiona Albuquerque 2 Gangotri Bhandari 3 Sudha Chaudhry 4 Selma D'Silva 5 Anurita Dubey 6 Pritpal Kaur 7 Rajbir Kaur 8 Sharanjit Kaur 9 Davinder Khokhar 10 S. Omana Kumari 11 Nazleen Madraswalla 12 Eliza Nelson (c) 13 Varsha Soni 14 Prem Maya Sonir 15 Margaret Toscano 16 Razia Zaidi

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