Harinder Jit Singh Rai

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Harinder Jit Singh Rai (died 1984), nicknamed Pandit, was a Canadian field hockey forward who played at the international level. He played for the University of British Columbia in 1956–57. On October 21, 1962, he scored Canada's first international goal in their first match against the United States in Rye, New York, a 1–0 victory. In 1963 he played for Canada in the Pre-Olympic tournament in Lyon, France, which helped the team qualify for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. He was not selected for the Olympic team because the committee wanted to field an all-white team. He was married to Gladys Marie Sikorski. He died of leukemia in 1984. Three months after his death, their daughter Pamela Rai, a swimmer, dedicated her success in the 1984 Summer Olympics to him.