{{Short description|Indian field hockey player}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}} {{Infobox field hockey player | name = Kishan Bahadur Pathak | image = Krishan Pathak in January 2024.jpg | caption = Kishan Pathak in 2024 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1997|4|24|df=y}} | birth_place = Kapurthala, Punjab, India | height = 1.7 m<ref>{{cite web |title=PATHAK Krishan |url=https://www.worldcup2018.hockey/men/players/pathak-krishan__70523__4212 |website=www.worldcup2018.hockey |publisher=International Hockey Federation |accessdate=28 February 2019}}</ref> | position = Goalkeeper | currentclub = | years1 = | clubs1 = Hockey Punjab | years2 = | clubs2 = Petroleum Sports Promotion Board | years3 = | clubs3 = Indian Oil Corporation | years4 = 2024– | clubs4 = Kalinga Lancers | nationalyears1 = 2016 | nationalteam1 = India U21 | nationalcaps1 = 1 | nationalgoals1 = 0 | nationalyears2 = 2018– | nationalteam2 = India | nationalcaps2 = 156 | nationalgoals2 = 0 | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport|Men's field hockey}} {{MedalCountry|{{IND}}}} {{MedalCompetition|Champions Trophy}} {{MedalSilver|2018 Breda|}} {{MedalCompetition|Asian Games}} {{MedalGold|2022 Hangzhou|Team}} {{MedalBronze|2018 Jakarta|Team}} {{MedalCompetition|Asia Cup}} {{MedalGold|2025 Rajgir|}} {{MedalCompetition|Asian Champions Trophy}} {{MedalGold|2018 Muscat|}} {{MedalGold|2023 Chennai|}} {{MedalGold|2024 Hulunbuir|}} {{MedalBronze|2021 Dhaka|}} {{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}} {{MedalSilver|2022 Birmingham|Team}} {{MedalCompetition|Junior World Cup}} {{MedalGold|2016 Lucknow|}} }} '''Kishan Bahadur Pathak''' (born 24 April 1997) is an Indian field hockey player who plays as a goalkeeper for the Indian national team.
==Early life== Pathak was born on 24 April 1997 in Kapurthala, Punjab. He is of Nepalese descent; his parents migrated from Lugdi village in Nepal to Punjab in 1990. His ancestral village is about six hours away from the capital Kathmandu.<ref>{{cite news |title=Friends in deed aid Krishan in tragedy|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/sport/other/2016/Nov/26/friends-in-deed-aid-krishan-in-tragedy-1542814.html|work=The New Indian Express|date=26 November 2016}}</ref> Despite not being interested in the sport, Pathak had joined the Surjit Hockey Academy in Jalandhar when he was 12 at the insistence of his father.<ref name =toi/> Pathak's mother died when he was 12, while his father Tek Bahadur Pathak, a crane operator, died of a heart attack in 2016.<ref name =toi>{{cite news |last1=Raj |first1=Pratyush |title=Sreejesh's understudy, Krishan worked at construction sites |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/asian-games/sreejeshs-understudy-krishan-worked-at-construction-sites/articleshow/65372106.cms |accessdate=28 October 2018 |work=The Times of India |date=12 August 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Iyer |first1=Ravi |title=Friends in deed aid Krishan in tragedy |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/sport/other/2016/nov/26/friends-in-deed-aid-krishan-in-tragedy-1542814.html |access-date=28 October 2018 |work=The New Indian Express |date=26 November 2016}}</ref><ref>[https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/hockey/despite-setbacks-krishan-pathak-keeps-faith-junior-world-cup-4419617 Junior Hockey World Cup: Despite setbacks, goalkeeper Krishan Pathak keeps faith]</ref>
==Career== Pathak was part of the Indian junior team that won the 2016 Men's Hockey Junior World Cup in Lucknow. He was then selected in the India A team for the 2017 Men's Australian Hockey League. He made his India senior team debut in January 2018 when the team participated in a four-team invitational tournament in New Zealand.<ref>{{cite news |title=Fit-again PR Sreejesh named in India squad for New Zealand tour |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/hockey/story/hockey-india-pr-sreejesh-squad-new-zealand-tour-manpreet-singh-1129755-2018-01-08 |accessdate=28 October 2018 |work=India Today |date=8 January 2018}}</ref> Pathak found a place in the squad for 2018 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup as India's first-choice goalkeeper P. R. Sreejesh was rested. He then played as a reserve goalkeeper in the 2018 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy where India won the silver medal and the 2018 Asian Games where India won bronze.{{fact|date=July 2022}}
Pathak was the reserve goalkeeper at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo where India won the bronze medal.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jal |first1=Pratyush Raj |title=Tokyo Olympics: 9 players from India's bronze-medal winning hockey team from Jalandhar's Surjit Academy |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/tokyo-olympics/story/surjit-singh-academy-training-ground-for-9-of-india-bronze-medal-winning-hockey-team-1837302-2021-08-05 |access-date=7 August 2021 |work=India Today |date=5 August 2021 |language=en}}</ref> Finally he won gold medal in 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Asian Games Results |url=https://info.hangzhou2022.cn/en/results/hockey/result-men-fnl-000200-.htm |access-date=6 October 2023 |website=2022 Asian Games, Hangzhou |archive-date=8 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231008232508/https://info.hangzhou2022.cn/en/results/hockey/result-men-fnl-000200-.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
== Award == Kishan Pathak(son of santosh kumar pathak, mother of vibha devi) received the Arjuna Award from the President of India on 9 January 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports |url=http://pib.gov.in/PressNoteDetails.aspx?NoteId=151772 |access-date=2024-01-09 |website=pib.gov.in |language=en}}</ref>
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==External links== *[https://www.hockeyindia.org/players/krishan-b-pathak-profile-985 Krishan Pathak] at Hockey India *{{FIH|15792}}
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