Indian girls’s hockey crew celebrates, dances in dressing room after Asian Games gold

Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], October 2 (ANI): The Indian girls’s hockey crew dressing room had an environment of celebration, ecstacy and pleasure as they secured a historic gold medal on the ongoing Asian Games, additionally securing a direct qualification to the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics. 

The Indian girls’s hockey crew produced a historic efficiency on Friday, defeating reigning Asian champions China 1-0 to clinch the gold medal and finish a 44-year watch for an Asian Games medal in Aichi-Nagoya. Ranked No. 8 on the planet, India surprised World No. 4 China in a fiercely contested remaining, with Lalremsiami scoring the decisive purpose within the tenth minute via a subject purpose. The triumph marks India’s first girls’s hockey medal on the Asian Games since 1982, when the crew final stood on the rostrum.

In a video posted by Hockey India on their X, gamers might be seen dancing to cricketer Dwayne Bravo’s music ‘Champion’, shouting ‘Champions’, ‘Champions’. 

‘CHAMPION, CHAMPION Everybody is aware of say the Indian Women’s Team are CHAMPIONS!    The gold is ours, and the celebrations are solely getting began!     #HockeyIndia #IndiaKaGame #AsianGames2026 #AichiNagoya2026,’ it posted.

https://x.com/TheHockeyIndia/status/2106009772353004017

This is India’s 76th medal on the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, with 16 golds, 25 silver medals and 35 bronze medals.

The gold medal additionally brings a big reward for the Indian crew, because the victory secures direct qualification for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games.

The achievement comes after a troublesome Olympic cycle for the Indian girls’s hockey crew, which narrowly missed out on qualification for the Paris 2024 Olympics following its spectacular fourth-place end on the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

India’s marketing campaign was additionally highlighted by a prolific goalscoring effort. Deepika Sehrawat completed because the event’s prime goalscorer with 21 objectives, adopted by teammate Navneet Kaur with 10 objectives, whereas China’s Jiaqi Zhong scored 9.

After 4 many years of ready, Indian girls’s hockey has as soon as once more reached the highest of Asia. (ANI)