Guru Dutt Sondhi

Guru Dutt Sondhi
Member of the International Olympic Committee
In office
1932–1966
2nd Secretary General of the Indian Olympic Association
In office
1938–1952
Preceded byA. G. Noehren
Succeeded byMoin-ul-Haq
Personal details
Born(1890-12-10)10 December 1890
Lahore, Punjab Province, British India
Died(1966-11-20)20 November 1966
India
SpouseEnid Sondhi[1]
Alma materGovernment College, Lahore
Trinity College, Cambridge
OccupationPrincipal, 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.

  1. ^ "Enid Sondhi". www.geni.com.
  2. ^ The Olympic Movement in Mourning, 1966
  3. ^ 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.