India, now ranked ninth in the FIH World Rankings, will look forward to continuing the winning streak and improving their preparations before the FIH Pro League 2024–25 European leg starting in June.
India are leading the Pool A of the women’s hockey competition in the Asian Games, ahead of South Korea on goal difference (+8).
The Savita Punia-led side will next take on Malaysia on September 29 in their next Pool match.
The Indian women’s team will begin their campaign against Singapore on 27th September at the Asian Games 2023.
The players were also captured dancing to cricketer Dwayne Bravo’s famous song ‘Champion’.
India lost their semifinal game against Australia in a penalty shootout 0-3.
The former chief coach of the Indian hockey team, Sjoerd Marijne, could not stop himself from reacting to this tweet from Shah Rukh Khan.
This is the third appearance of the Indian Women’s hockey team in the Olympics since their debut in 1980.
Gurjit Kaur was the hero of the nation as she scored her maiden Olympic goal in the 22nd minute.
Vandana Katariya’s incredible hat-trick powered them to 4-3 win against South Africa which proved to be enough for them to qualify for the quarter-finals, where they will be up against Australia.
The result has kept India’s hopes of a quarterfinal berth alive but their progress to the next stage of the competition will depend on the result of another match.