PARATTU RAVEENDRAN Sreejesh

Date of Birth: 8 May 1988

Age: 33

Gender: Male

Height (m/ft): 1.83/6'0''

Place of birth: ERNAKULAM

Birth Country:

India

Place of residence : CHENNAI

Residence Country:

India

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Hockey	Men IND India	3

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Oi Hockey Stadium - South Pitch	Men's Pool A #M02 NZL New Zealand 2 IND India 3	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - North Pitch	Men's Pool A #M07 IND India 1 AUS Australia 7	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - South Pitch	Men's Pool A #M14 IND India 3 ESP Spain 0	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - North Pitch	Men's Pool A #M21 IND India 3 ARG Argentina 1	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - North Pitch	Men's Pool A #M27 JPN Japan 3 IND India 5	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - North Pitch	Men's Quarter-final #M33 IND India 3 GBR Great Britain 1	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - North Pitch	Men's Semi-final #M36 IND India 2 BEL Belgium 5	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - North Pitch	Men's Bronze Medal Match #M37 GER Germany 4 IND India 5	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
8	Men	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA
12	Men	2012	London, GBR

Rank	Event	Year	Location
6	Men	2018	Bhubaneswar, IND
8	Men	2010	New Delhi, IND
9	Men	2014	The Hague, NED

FIH Pro League

Rank	Event	Year	Location
4	Men	2020

Champions Trophy

Rank	Event	Year	Location
2	Men	2018	Breda, NED

Asian Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
3	Men	2018	Indonesia

PR, The Wall of Indian Hockey (Facebook page, 16 Mar 2018)

Occupation:

History - Sree Narayana College, Kollam, India

Languages spoken:

English, Hindi, Malayalam

Graham Reid [national] AUS

Position style:

Goalkeeper (Facebook page, 16 Mar 2018)

2006 for India, South Asian Games in Colombo, Sri Lanka (sportskeeda.com, 13 May 2013)

During the 2017 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup in Malaysia, he injured the anterior cruciate ligament [ACL], medial collateral ligament [MCL] and meniscus in his right knee after colliding with an Australian forward. He made his comeback in January 2018 during a four-nation Test series in New Zealand. (indianexpress.com, 12 Feb 2018)

A hamstring injury forced him to miss the 2012 Champions Trophy in Melbourne, VIC, Australia. (sportskeeda.com, 13 May 2013)

Injury meant he missed both the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India, and the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, People's Republic of China. (tssonnet.com, 29 Sep 2011)

He began playing hockey at the GV Raja Sports School in Thiruvananthapuram, India. (firstpost.com, 13 Jul 2016)

Previously a sprinter, he was encouraged to take up hockey by his coaches at the GV Raja Sports School in Thiruvananthapuram, India. Soon after getting involved, he became attracted to the goalkeeping aspect of the sport. "Goalkeeping is one area in hockey where you're always accounted for individually. Forwards have to depend on the passes from midfielders, even drag-flickers have to depend on the pusher and stopper. My coach from the junior days said goalkeeping is one area where you can put up a one-man show. I didn't hesitate." (firstpost.com, 13 Jul 2016; timesofindia.indiatimes.com, 23 May 2016)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (sportstar.thehindu.com, 05 Nov 2019)

Indian hockey player Dhanraj Pillai. (hockeyindia.org, 09 Feb 2016)

Philosophy:

"A goalkeeper is doing a thankless job but he can be the difference between a team winning and losing." (scroll.in, 01 Dec 2018)

He won the 2015 Dhruv Batra Player of the Year Award at the 2nd Hockey India Annual Awards in Bengaluru, India. (asiahockey.org, 26 Mar 2016)

He was named India's Player of the Year for 2015. (manoramaonline.com, 27 Mar 2016)

In 2015 he received the Arjuna Award in India. (Facebook page, 16 Mar 2018)

He received the Kerala Sports Council's Lieutenant Colonel GV Raja award for 2014/15. (prepsure.com, 17 Nov 2015)

In 2014 he was nominated for the International Hockey Federation [FIH] Goalkeeper of the Year award after being named Goalkeeper of the Tournament at the 2014 Champions Trophy in Bhubaneswar, India. He also received the Goalkeeper of the Tournament award at the 2013 Asia Cup in Malaysia, and the 2008 Junior Asia Cup in Hyderabad, India. (sportskeeda.com, 01 Mar 2016; deccanchronicle.com, 05 Sep 2013; sportstaronnet.com, 02 Aug 2008)

General Interest

General
FATHERHOOD
His wife gave birth to their second child during a period when he was unable to play for the national team because of a serious knee injury he suffered in 2017. "The injury was a good thing. I was in a hockey shell before. I never imagined Sreejesh without hockey. But these three months have given me the courage to think that a life without hockey is possible. There's a world outside, there's your family. You need to be with everyone. I missed all this with my first child. I missed watching her grow up. I saw her every three months. But now I'm getting some time to spend with my baby. Now I wake up at midnight, change diapers, and carry the baby. Now I feel I'm a father." (thehindu.com, 23 Sep 2017)

SUSPENSION
In January 2018 he was put on a 12-month probation period and banned for 15 days after he participated in a charity football match while unable to represent the India national hockey team because of a knee injury. The Hockey India disciplinary committee found him to be guilty of a Level 1 offence of the Hockey India Code of Conduct. (firstpost.com, 04 Jan 2018; indianexpress.com, 04 Jan 2018)

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Legend

:: Bronze Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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