Asian Video games males’s hockey champions and Tokyo Olympics bronze medallists India acquired a troublesome Pool B slot at this yr’s Paris Video games.
Eight-time champions India, who clinched a historic bronze medal in Tokyo after a hiatus of 41 years, have been clubbed with reigning Olympic champions and world no.2 Belgium, mighty Australia, Rio Video games gold medallist Argentina, New Zealand and Eire.
The Indians are at the moment ranked third on the planet, behind Belgium and the Netherlands, and so they had discovered it robust to beat Tokyo silver medallist Australia and Argentina up to now.
Pool A, in the meantime, consists of Netherlands, Germany, Nice Britain, Spain, France and South Africa.
The Worldwide Hockey Federation introduced the swimming pools of each males’s and girls’s hockey competitors after the completion of the FIH Hockey Olympic Qualifiers on Sunday.
Within the ladies’s competitors in Paris, there might be no illustration from India, who completed a creditable fourth in Tokyo, as they did not qualify, having completed fourth after dropping to Japan 0-1 within the Olympic Qualifiers in Ranchi on Friday.
Germany, USA and Japan sealed their berths from the Ranchi occasion.
Reigning Olympic champions Netherlands are positioned in Pool A with Belgium Germany, Japan, China and hosts France, whereas Pool B contains Australia, present silver medallist Argentina, Nice Britain, Spain, USA and South Africa.
The collaborating groups have been allotted their respective swimming pools on the premise of the FIH World Rankings as on Sunday.
The 12 groups per gender have certified for the Olympic Video games both as hosts, winner of their continental qualifier or prime three finisher of their FIH Hockey Olympic Qualifier.
The highest 4 groups from every pool in each males’s and girls’s competitions will qualify for the quarterfinals.
The Paris Olympics might be held from July 26 until August 11 and hockey competitions will begin from July 27 and finish on August 9.