India Clubbed Alongside Increased-ranked Germany In Ladies’s Hockey Olympic Qualifier
The Indian ladies’s hockey workforce has a troublesome job at hand because it has been clubbed alongside world No.5 Germany within the FIH Hockey Olympic Qualifiers to be held in Ranchi from January 13 to 19. At No.6, India are the second-best aspect within the India leg of the Olympic qualifiers with the opposite groups being New Zealand (ninth), Japan (eleventh), Chile (14th), United States (fifteenth), Italy (nineteenth) and the Czech Republic (twenty fifth).
The opposite eight groups that may battle for Olympic spots in Valencia, Spain embrace Belgium, Nice Britain, Spain, Korea, Eire, Canada, Malaysia and Ukraine.
The lads’s qualifiers might be held in Muscat and Valencia.
The eight males’s groups that may function in Muscat are Nice Britain, Germany, New Zealand, Malaysia, Pakistan, Canada, Chile and China, whereas Belgium, Spain, Korea, Eire, Japan, Austria, Egypt and Ukraine will sq. off in Valencia.
The 16 groups per gender have been divided into two teams.
The lads’s and girls’s groups have been divided into two teams on the idea of their world rating on the conclusion of all continental championships.
After the conclusion of hockey occasions on the Pan American Video games and the African Hockey Highway to Paris 2024, 5 males’s and girls’s groups have now gained direct berths in subsequent yr’s Paris Olympics as continental champions, along with hosts France.
The groups that end within the high three of every of the 4 Olympic qualifiers will seal their berths within the Paris Video games.
The Indian males’s workforce has already certified for the Paris Video games after successful gold at this yr’s Asian Video games in Hangzhou.
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