Published By: Ritayan Basu
Last Updated: November 07, 2023, 15:31 IST
India girls hockey staff captain Savita Punia (Twitter)
The Indian girls’s hockey staff gained bronze medal on the Asian Games and the title at Asian Champions Trophy.
The Indian girls’s hockey staff has reclaimed its best-ever sixth place rating on the planet following its stupendous present within the just-concluded Asian Champions Trophy and the Hangzhou Asian Games.
India at the moment are positioned sixth forward of England with 2368.83 ranking factors.
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The Indian girls had been positioned eighth earlier than the Asian Games however the bronze medal on the continental showpiece and the title triumph at Asian Champions Trophy in Ranchi, the place they remained unbeaten, has catapulted the facet again to its best-ever world rating, final achieved in the course of the FIH Pro League in June final yr.
The Netherlands continued to be ranked as the very best girls’s hockey staff on the planet with 3422.40 factors, adopted by Australia in second place with 2817.73 factors and Argentina at third with 2766.90 factors.
The different two groups ranked above India are Belgium at fourth with 2608.77 factors and Germany at fifth with 2573.72 factors.
The bounce in world rating is a giant shot within the arm for the staff in its preparation for the forthcoming FIH Hockey Olympic Qualifiers, scheduled to be held from January 13 to 19 in Ranchi.
The Indians will battle it our towards Germany, New Zealand, Japan, Chile, the United States, Italy and Czech Republic in a bid to qualify for subsequent yr’s Paris Olympics.
(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is revealed from a syndicated news company feed – PTI)
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