The Indian Women’s Hockey workforce climbed to the sixth place within the FIH World Hockey Rankings, attaining their best-ever rating. With 2029.396 factors, the Indian Women’s Hockey Team is now positioned within the World Rankings above Spain.
Spain dropped one place after dropping each their FIH Hockey Pro League 2021/22 matches to Argentina. They have additionally misplaced one match every to Belgium and England this month.
With 2029.396 factors, the Indian ladies’s hockey workforce is now positioned sixth behind the Netherlands (3049.495), Argentina (2674.837), Australia (2440.750), England (2204.590), and Germany (2201.085). Spain are seventh with a score of 2016.149.
The Indian ladies’s hockey workforce at the moment sits within the third place within the FIH Hockey Pro League 2021/22 desk with 22 factors from 8 video games. India will likely be dealing with Belgium in a double-header in away video games on June 11 and 12.
Speaking on the achievement, the Indian ladies’s hockey workforce chief coach Janneke Schopman stated, “As a team, we aim to improve and grow and become a consistent contender in Women’s Hockey. The rise in the FIH World Rankings is a nice indicator that we are on the right path.”
“At the same time, with the FIH Women’s Hockey Pro League and FIH Women’s World Cup coming up, things can change quickly and therefore, we have to keep focusing on our own performance,” Schopman was quoted as saying by Hockey India in a launch on Tuesday.
The Indian ladies’s workforce captain, Savita, additionally expressed delight on the achievement. “This is the outcome of all the hard work our team has done over the past few months. We have worked together as a team against strong competition and achieved good results, and we are proud that we are growing and learning together as a unit.”
Savita added, “We hope to continue our growth as we prepare for tougher challenges in away games against Belgium and The Netherlands. We are confident we will be able to get good results as well and continue to improve.”
However, there was some setback for Indian hockey as the boys’s workforce slipped one place to fourth after the Netherlands overtook them because of some good setbacks this month.
The Netherlands (2465.707) regained the third spot, as they swapped locations with India (2366.990). Germany (2308.156) continues to carry fifth place however England (2171.354) moved to sixth forward of Argentina (2147.179) because of their latest wins in opposition to France and South Africa within the Pro League.
Australia retained the highest spot within the males’s rankings with 2842.258 factors, with World and Olympic champions Belgium snapping at their heels with 2764.735 factors.