Amritsar (Punjab) [India], October 11 (ANI): Harmanpreet Singh-led Indian males’s hockey group acquired a grand welcome at Amritsar airport on Wednesday after profitable a gold medal within the males’s hockey group occasion on the nineteenth Asian Games in Hangzhou.
Amritsar airport was flooded with individuals who simply got here to get a glimpse of the Indian hockey gamers and provides them a heat welcome after success on the nineteenth Asian Games.
While talking to the press after getting back from Hangzhou, Harmanpreet Singh thanked his relations for his or her steady help which helped the Indian males’s hockey skipper clinch a gold medal on the Asian Games.
“My family supported me a lot during the journey. I want to thank them,” Harmanpreet Singh stated when requested about his household’s contribution.
India beat Japan 5-1 within the Asian Games 2023 males’s hockey ultimate on the Gongshu Canal Sports Park Stadium in Hangzhou, the People’s Republic of China on Friday to win the gold medal. With the win, the Indian males’s hockey group additionally secured a berth on the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Manpreet Singh (25′), Harmanpreet Singh (32, 59”), Amit Rohidas (36′) and Abhishek (48′) scored the targets for the Indian hockey group within the gold medal match. Tanaka Seren (51′) netted the one objective for Japan.
This was the Indian males’s hockey group’s fourth gold medal on the Asian Games after the 1966 and 1988 editions in Bangkok and Incheon 2014.
India had topped Pool A after profitable all their group video games earlier than downing the Republic of Korea 5-3 within the semi-finals.
At the nineteenth Asian Games, India completed in fourth place of the medal desk with its best-ever medal tally with 107 medals. (ANI)