Leo Pinto

Leo Pinto (11 April 1914 – 10 August 2010) was an Indian field hockey player who played as a goalkeeper, who won the gold medal with the India national team at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.

[3] Pinto, as a professional played his first matches in the Aga Khan Tournament with the Byculla Rovers club, at a young age.

As a student of the St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, he represented the college in inter-collegiate tournaments along with his future colleagues in Indian senior national team, Owen Ferreira, Willie Fernandes and Owen Pinto.

However, he made his debut at the 1948 Olympics in London, with the team winning the gold medal.

Following his career in hockey, Pinto became a coach and a member of the national selection committee of the Indian team that won the bronze medal at the 1972 Olympics in Munich.