Harmanpreet had additionally gained the coveted award final 12 months.
Harmanpreet had additionally gained the coveted award final 12 months.
Star Indian drag-flicker Harmanpreet Singh was on Tuesday named amongst 5 nominees for the Males’s Participant of the Yr honour whereas PR Sreejesh and Savita Punia figured within the shortlists for the very best female and male goalkeeper for the FIH Hockey Stars Awards 2021-22.
Indian workforce vice-captain Harmanpreet was named together with two Belgians in Arthur de Sloover and Tom Boon, Niklas Wellen of Germany and Thierry Brinkman of the Netherlands for the FIH Males’s Participant of the Yr award. There is no such thing as a Indian within the checklist of gamers nominated for the FIH Ladies’s Participant of the Yr award.
Harmanpreet had additionally gained the coveted award final 12 months when the Indian gamers and coaches swept all of the honours after their historic Olympic Video games efficiency in Tokyo the place the boys’s workforce gained a bronze for the primary time after 41 years whereas the ladies’s facet misplaced within the bronze-medal match.
Males’s workforce coach Graham Reid, Sreejesh and Savita additionally gained final 12 months.
The sweeping of the awards by the Indians in all of the 5 classes final 12 months (2020-21) had led to a furore, particularly from males’s Olympic champions Belgium.
Reid and Janneke Schopman had been named within the respective males’s and ladies’s coach of the 12 months award lists, whereas Mumtaz Khan and Sanjay figured within the lists for the boys’s and ladies’s rising participant of the 12 months honour.
The Worldwide Hockey Federation (FIH) mentioned gamers, coaches, media and followers can register their votes on-line for the nominees within the ladies’s and males’s classes for the very best participant, goalkeeper, rising star and coach of the 12 months, ranging from Tuesday (September 6) itself until September 30.
The winners for all classes will probably be introduced in early October.
Moreover, awards for the Finest Umpire of the Yr, in males’s and ladies’s classes, will probably be given, which will probably be chosen by the FIH Officers Committee.
The brand new voting course of contains an skilled group whose votes will rely for 40 per cent of the general end result. Votes from nationwide associations, represented by their respective nationwide groups’ captains and coaches, will rely for an additional 20 per cent. The followers and different gamers (20%) in addition to media (20%) will make the remaining 40%.
The ultimate shortlist was established solely by an Knowledgeable Group comprising gamers, former gamers, coaches and officers chosen by every of their Continental Federations. Earlier than establishing the ultimate shortlist, the Knowledgeable Group acquired a protracted checklist of gamers and coaches based mostly on efficiency information registered throughout the involved interval.
The efficiency of the gamers in FIH Hockey Professional League, FIH Hockey Ladies’s World Cup, FIH Hockey Junior World Cups and Continental Championships (senior class) had been thought of in nominating the gamers.
Checklist of Awards:
FIH Participant of the Yr Award:
Ladies: Felice Albers (NED), María José Granatto (ARG), Frédérique Matla (NED), Agustina Gorzelany (ARG), Georgina Oliva (ESP).
Males: Arthur de Sloover (BEL), Harmanpreet Singh (IND), Niklas Wellen (GER), Thierry Brinkman (NED), Tom Boon (BEL).
FIH Goalkeeper of the Yr Award:
Ladies: Savita (IND), Josine Koning (NED), Belén Succi (ARG), Jocelyn Bartram (AUS), Phumelela Mbande (RSA).
Males: Loïc van Doren (BEL), PR Sreejesh (IND), Pirmin Blaak (NED), Arthur Thieffry (FRA), Alexander Stadler (GER).
FIH Rising Star of the Yr Award:
Ladies: Charlotte Englebert (BEL), Luna Fokke (NED), Mumtaz Khan (IND), Jip Dicke (NED), Amy Lawton (AUS).
Males: Miles Bukkens (NED), Timothée Clément (FRA), Sanjay (IND), Pau Cunill (ESP), Rizwan Ali (PAK)
FIH Coach of the Yr Award:
Ladies: Janneke Schopman (Crew India), Jamilon Mülders (Crew Netherlands), Katrina Powell (Crew Australia), Raoul Ehren (Crew Belgium), Adrian Lock (Crew Spain).
Males: Jeroen Delmee (Crew Netherlands), Michel van den Heuvel (Crew Belgium), Graham Reid (Crew India), Garreth Ewing (Crew South Africa), Frederic Soyez (Crew France).
