2nd Secretary General of the Indian Olympic Association
In office 1938–1952
Preceded by
A. G. Noehren
Succeeded by
Moin-ul-Haq
Personal details
Born
(1890-12-10)10 December 1890 Lahore, Punjab Province, British India
Died
(1966-11-20)20 November 1966 India
Spouse
Enid Sondhi[1]
Alma mater
Government College, Lahore Trinity College, Cambridge
Occupation
Principal, Sports administrator
Guru Dutt Sondhi (10 December 1890 – 20 November 1966)[2] was an Indian sports administrator in India. Sondhi was manager of the British Indian Olympic hockey team at the 1932 Summer Olympics, founder of the Western Asiatic Games and the founder of the Asian Games Federation, which held the first Asiad.[3] At the time of the inaugural Asian Games in New Delhi, he was the Secretary General of the Indian Olympic Association.
^"Enid Sondhi". www.geni.com.
^The Olympic Movement in Mourning, 1966
^Stefan Huebner, Pan-Asian Sports and the Emergence of Modern Asia, 1913-1974. Singapore: NUS Press, 2016, chapter 3 (on the First Asian Games); Stefan Huebner, "Guru Dutt Sondhi (1890-1966): Indian IOC Member and Visionary of Asian Integration through Sport." In: Education about Asia Archived 2018-07-13 at the Wayback Machine 21,2 (2016), 29-34.
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