Vandana, a member of India’s historic fourth-place completed aspect within the Tokyo Olympics, can also be eyeing a top-two consequence on this yr’s FIH Ladies’s World Cup
Vandana, a member of India’s historic fourth-place completed aspect within the Tokyo Olympics, can also be eyeing a top-two consequence on this yr’s FIH Ladies’s World Cup
Star Indian ladies’s hockey staff striker Vandana Katariya has set her eyes on wining the gold medal on this yr’s Asian Video games in Hangzhou, China to assist them straight qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Vandana, a member of India’s historic fourth-place completed aspect within the Tokyo Olympics, can also be eyeing a top-two consequence on this yr’s FIH Ladies’s World Cup to be co-hosted by the Netherlands and Spain from July 1 to 17.
“The objective that I’ve set for myself this yr is to assist the staff win the gold medal within the Asian Video games so we are able to safe our qualification for the 2024 Olympics.
“I’m additionally excited for the World Cup this yr, the place our objective is to make it into the ultimate of the competitors. I’m going to work actually arduous on my technical abilities in coaching, as a result of that’s one of the simplest ways that I may also help the staff’s trigger,” Vandana mentioned in a launch issued by Hockey India.
Following her father’s dying in April 2021, Vandana additionally spoke concerning the assist she had obtained from her teammates and chief coach Janneke Schopman at a troublesome interval in her life.
“After shedding my father final yr, the assist that I obtained from my teammates, nationwide staff employees and (chief coach) Janneke Schopman helped me stand on my toes once more.
“It has been a significant turning level in my life and my profession. I realised that identical to I’ve a household again house, these individuals are like my household within the nationwide camp,” she mentioned.
Vandana rose to stardom final yr by turning into the primary Indian ladies’s hockey participant ever to attain a hat-trick within the Olympics. Vandana’s efforts contributed to the Indian ladies’s hockey staff registering its best-ever efficiency on the Olympic Video games.
