Olympic medal record | ||
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Men's Field Hockey | ||
Competitor for India | ||
Gold | 1948 London | Team competition |
Gold | 1952 Helsinki | Team competition |
Gold | 1956 Melbourne | Team competition |
Silver | 1960 Rome | Team competition |
Leslie Walter Claudius (born March 25, 1927 in Bilaspur) was an Indian field hockey player, of Anglo-Indian descent. In 1971 he was awarded the Padma Shri. He is in the Guinness Book of World Records along with Udham Singh for having won the maximum number of Olympic medals in field hockey.
His son, Robert Claudius, was also an Indian international who represented his country at the World Cup in Mexico in 1978. Robert died in a road accident.