Tokyo Olympics, who were postponed up to 2021 from 2020 are now round the corner.
In our countdown to the Tokyo Olympics we regularly create profiles of several largest medal competitors on the upcoming Quadrennial program.
One team that is expected to do well in this match is the Indian men’s hockey team.
Hockey traditionally became the best sport of India at the Olympics, produced as many as 11 medals from 1928 to 1980.
These include 8 gold medals, 1 bronze medal and 2 bronze.
However, it has long since India won a Hockey medal at the Olympics.
Last time in the Moscow 1980 game, when the men’s team won gold.
Can the male team currently destroy Jinx 40 years this time? Indian Men’s Hockey Team (Currently) Main Achievement: * Bronze in 2018 Jakarta Asian Games * Silver in 2018 Champions Trophy * Gold Muscat Champion Asia Cup * Gold in 2017 Dhaka Asia Cup * Bronze in the World League Bhubaneswar * Perak in 2016 London Champions Trophy * Silver Guwahati Guwahati South Asian Games * Bronze in 2014-15 Raipur World League * Gold in 2014 Incheon Asian Games * Silver in 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games * Perak in 2013 Ipoh Asia Cup * Gold in 2011 Ordos City Asia Champion Trophy Manpreet Singh.
Pic Credit: Indian Hockey TwitterIndia has been a power that must be taken into account on men’s hockey after winning as many as eight gold medals at the Olympics.
In fact, the last time the match was held in Japan, in 1964, India won a gold medal.
But after gold in the 1980 edition, waiting for the next men’s hockey medal at the Olympics very long.
In Tokyo 2020, the Indian team Indian members will be led by Mid-Fielder Manpreet Singh, who is the first Indian Hockey player who was named this year’s fih man hockey player – in 2019.
The Indian team had done well under Manpreet Captain for the past four years , after winning the Asian Cup in 2017, the Asian Cup in 2018 and the FIH final in 2019.
They also reached the quarter-finals at the 2018 World Cup in Bhubaneswar.
This will be the Third Olympics of Manpreet and he will have two deputies in the Birendra Lakra and Harmanpreet Singh defenders.
HarmanPreet made India’s senior debut in 2015 and in the absence of Manpreet captain in 2019, leading the Indian team to win at the FBI Olympic test in Tokyo.
But the most interesting fact about this Indian squad is that of 16 players, as many as 10 players will display in the first Olympics.
The 10 players are: Amit Rohidas, Hardik Singh, Vivek Sagar Prasad, Nilakanta Sharma, Sumit, Shamsher Singh, Dilpreet Singh, Gurjant Singh, Lalit Kumar Upadhyay and Birendra Lakra.
Birendra Lakra has missed the 2016 Rio Olympics due to knee surgery.
The Indian players will seek to learn from the experience of Defenders of Rupinder Pal Singh and Surender Kumar and Advanced Mandeep Singh, who are also part of the previous Indian Olympic forces in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
PR Sreejesh.
Pic Credit: Indian Hockey Twitterkrish Bahadur Pathak missed in the Olympic bed even though it became an integral part of the team and the former PR captain Sreejesh was a goalkeeper alone in the squad.
But Pathak will travel with a squad to Tokyo as a standby goalkeeper.
India has been beaten with defending champions Argentina, world champion three times and the world today No.1 Australia, New Zealand, Spain and Japanese host at Pond A.
India will start their Olympic campaign on July 24 against New Zealand on their first stage of the match , Full Indian Men’s Hockey Forces for Tokyo Olympics: PR Sheejesh Defenders: HarmanPreet Singh, Ruplinder Pal Singh, Surender Kumar, Amit Rohidas, Birendra Lakra Midffield: Harret Singh, Vivek Sagar Prasad, Sumit Singh: Shamsher Singh, Dilpreet Singh, Gurjant Singh, Lalit Kumar Upadhyay, Mandeep Singh Stand-bys: Krishhan Pathak (Goals-Keeper), Varun Kumar (Defender), Simranjit Singh (Midfielder)