Product Code Database
Rui Ninnian Saldanha (born 21 October 1947) is a British field hockey player of Indian descent. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
When he came to England he joined Blackheath Hockey Club and studied medicine as a student at London Hospital Medical College. He graduated from Durham University (Hatfield College) with a degree in Economics and Psychology in 1971 – his academic finals having been delayed for one year because of his commitments with the England hockey team and his election as President of the Durham University Athletic Union (DUAU).
Saldanha then attended the University of Oxford and while there represented Great Britain at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. Saldanha later competed for England at the 1978 Men's Hockey World Cup.
In May 1989, Saldanha, now working for the New York Life Insurance Company at their office in Des Moines, Iowa, married Indian actress and former Miss India Persis Khambatta at the Polk County Courthouse.
|
|
