Gagan Ajit India's leading goal scorer

Gagan Ajit Singh emerged India's leading goal scorer with seven strikes in the Olympic hockey competition, in which the country finished seventh.

Gagan Ajit Singh emerged India's leading goal scorer with seven strikes in the Olympic hockey competition, in which the country finished seventh.

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Pakistan's Sohail Abbas showed his class to finish as the highest scorer in the tournament, slamming home 11 times even though his side finished fifth in the event.

India, who had a far-from-impressive outing here, scored 17 goals in the meet with as many as five of them coming in their last match against Korea.

Dhanraj Pillay was their second most successful scorer.

The veteran forward, who played in his fourth and final Olympics, sounded the board twice -- both of which were penalty corner conversions.

The event exposed the chinks in the Indian forward-line which was evident from the performance of the strikers -- Prabhjot Singh, Adam Sinclair, Baljit Singh Dhillon and Deepak Thakur -- all of whom scored just a goal each.

Dilip Tirkey's penalty corner conversion against Australia gave the captain his lone goal in the competition which saw as many as 213 goals being scored.