NEW DELHI: Hailing Hockey India's yet another ground-breaking initiative, National Women's Hockey League 2024-2025, former Indian skipper Pritam Rani Siwach championed its significance for aspiring players who are looking to reach the national team set-up.
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Mar 04, 2020 15:03
NEW DELHI: Hockey India Tuesday released the list of nominations for the third edition of the Hockey India Annual Awards.
These awards are given in recognition of excellence in performance for the year 2019 and overall contribution to the game of hockey. The third edition of the awards carries a total prize money of Rs 13 million along with a trophy in each category.
Mar 02, 2020 17:03
NEW DELHI: The Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament on Monday became the latest sporting event to be affected by the coronavirus outbreak, pushed from April to September in the wake of the deadly disease which is spreading across the world.
Feb 17, 2020 14:02
NEW DELHI: The International Hockey Federation on Monday announced India as the hosts for the FIH Junior Men's World Cup 2021.
The FIH also announced that the venue and dates for the Junior Men's World Cup 2021 will announced at a later stage.
Feb 14, 2020 16:02
NEW DELHI: The Union Sports Ministry has confirmed that the Centre has not declared any sport as the 'national game' of the country.
The ministry said this in response to an RTI query filed by a school teacher from Dhule district of north Maharashtra, PTI reports.
The commonly held perception is that hockey is the national sport of India.
Feb 14, 2020 16:02
NEW DELHI: Indian hockey team captain Manpreet Singh has won the FIH Player of the Year award.
In June last year, Manpreet, who completed 250 matches for India during the FIH Men's Hockey Series Finals in Bhubaneswar, led the team to victory beating South Africa in the final of the event.
Feb 11, 2020 19:02
NEW DELHI: Indian men's team midfielder Vivek Sagar Prasad and Indian women's hockey team striker Lalremsiami have been adjudged the FIH Rising Star of the Year 2019.
Feb 07, 2020 17:02
NEW DELHI: The outbreak of the deadly coronavirus has hit the Indian women's hockey team's preparation for the Tokyo Olympics following to cancellation of next month's scheduled tour of China.
Feb 06, 2020 18:02
NEW DELHI: In a bid to further provide state-of-the-art facilities to junior and sub-junior hockey players across the country, Sports Authority of India (SAI) and Hockey India Thursday announced the establishment of high performance hockey centres in seven different locations across India, which will be set up with the objective of producing positive outcomes for field hockey at the 2024 and 2028 editions of the Olympic Gam
Feb 01, 2020 18:02
NEW DELHI: Indian hockey captain Rani Rampal, voted The World Games Athlete of the Year, has been honoured by the Sports Authority of India (SAI) with an out-of-turn promotion.
Rani, who joined SAI as an assistant coach in 2015, has been promoted to the post of coach (Level-10), with immediate effect, The Hindu reports.
Jan 31, 2020 17:01
NEW DELHI: Indian women's hockey team captain Rani Rampal was Thursday announced as the first Indian athlete to win the prestigious World Games Athlete of the Year 2019 Award.