Sports in Bihar

Bihar State Sports Council was dissolved on 31st July, 1986 and Bihar State Sports Authority was formed. Like Bhartiya Sports Authority, Bihar State Sports Council was formed in 1961. 

Important Sports organizations in Bihar

Bihar Cricket Association: This association was formed in 1937. This association organized a few cricket competitions of Junior and Senior categories. 

Bihar Hockey Association: Bihar Hockey Association was formed in 1989. Prior to this Bihar Olympic Association used to look after hockey games activities. First time India participated in Hockey games in 1928 Olympic held at Amsterdam (Holland) and won the gold medal. The Captain of Victorious Team was Jaipal Singh of Bihar (Jharkhand). Bihar hockey association looks after the activities of man's hockey. To look after the women's hockey activities, there is Bihar State Women's Hockey Association.

Bihar Olympic Association: It is the highest institution of games of Bihar. A few Sports organisations are attached with this institution. In Organising the National games these institutions plays an active role.

Bihar Football Association: This association was formed in 1986. This association organizes a few football competitions of Senior and Junior categories. Thus there are different associations of different games in Bihar e.g., All Bihar Chess Association, Bihar Amateur Athletic Association, Bihar Tennis Association, Bihar Volley Ball Association, Bihar Carom Association etc.

Important Stadiums of Bihar

• Veer Kunwar Singh Stadium. Arrah • Jagjeewan Stadium, Khagaul • Hazipur Stadium, Hazipur • Moinul Haq Stadium. Patna • Mithiles Stadium, Patna • Sanjay Gandhi Mini Stadium, Patna • Rajendra Stadium, Chhapra • Indira Gandhi Stadium, Purnea • Subrahanium Stadium, Gaya • Secretariat Indoor Stadium, Patna

Important Cups and Trophies of Bihar

• Football: Moin-ul-Haq Trophy, Ravi Mehta Trophy, President Cup, Republic shield. Governor's Gold Cup. Anugrah Narain Shield

• Cricket: Randheer Verma Shield, Hemant Trophy

• Hockey: Kajans Cup

• Volleyball: Ravi Mehta Shield Important Players of Bihar

Famous Players and Athletes of Bihar

• Football: Chandra Shekhar Prasad (Arjun Award, 1971), Abdul Samad, Ashok Baneijee, Anwar Hussain, Prabhakar Mishra, Arun Jha, Ram Vilas, Dhan Bahadur, Rameshwar Lal etc. 

• Cricket: Remesh Saxena, Randheer Singh, Saba Karim. Kirti Azad, Subrat Banerjee, Shekhar Sinha, Kajal Das, Om Prakash, Hari Gidwani, Tilak Raj etc. 

• Hockey: Gopal Bhaingara, Micheal Kindo, S. Dung Dung, Sushila Topno, Jasteen Kerketa, Jaipal Singh (Jharkhand), L. K. Minj, Yashmeer Sanga, HannaNag, Amrita Lakra etc. 

• Tennis: Khosu Sen, Hari Verma, Chandra Bhusan, Beehu Day, Noshusen, Dinesh Mohan etc. 

• Base Ball: Eshan Ahmed, Yechazuddin, Sudhanshu Shekhar, Sunil Singh, Smita Pal, Ajai Tiwari etc. 

• Weight Lifting: Sukh Dev Singh, Ratan Kumar Basak, Indrajeet Singh etc. 

• Atheletie: Shivanth Singh (Marathan), Arvind (Race), Om Pal Singh (Long Jump), Iqbal Singh(Shot Put), Ajmer Singh (Discus throw), Budhva Urao (Race), Balbinder Singh (Shot Put), Murshi Kuttan (Long Jump), Amitabh Rai (Race) etc. 

• Chess: Doulan Champa Bose, Sanjeev Kumar, Vishal Sarin, Papoo Ramani, Varugeej Kosi etc. 

• Pole-Vault: Sunder Singh Tanwar 

• Volley Ball: Sudha Singh, Vedanand Singh, Himanshu Shekhar Jha, Mahesh Lal Das etc.

Referees, Umpires and Commentators of Bihar

• Referee: Tahir Hussain (Football), Manik Sen Gupta (Football), Yogendra Pandit. Vijai Kumar Sinha etc. 

• Umpire: Gora Bose (Cricket), Salil Das, S.B. Ramani, K.V. Rao etc. 

• Commentator: Moin-ul-Haq, Jayant Chatteijee (Both English). U.K. Sinha, Dharamveer Singh, Prem Kumar, Sunil Kumar Mukherjee (All Hindi), Dr. Sameer Sain Gupta, Badri Prasad Yadav, Vijai Kumar Jamuar etc. 

A few Regional Games of Bihar

 I spy, Gully-Danda, Langari, Sui-Dhaga race, Denga Pani, Cheeka, Kabaddi, Bora Race etc. 

Other 

• Seven Sports Development Centres are being run by Bihar State Sports Authority. • Asian School Football Competition was held in Patna in 1997. 

Sports in Bihar

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