Hockey rankings: Indian males to complete 2021 in third spot, ladies drop to ninth
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Olympic bronze profitable Indian males’s hockey group will finish the yr in third spot, its highest-ever, as per the International Hockey Federation (FIH) rankings launched on Thursday.
The Manpreet Singh-led Indian group gained the bronze in Tokyo Games earlier this yr to finish a 41-year medal watch for the nation.
India, who completed third within the just-concluded Asian Champions Trophy in Dhaka, will finish the yr with 2296.038 factors behind Olympic champions Belgium and toppers Australia.
Australia have leapfrogged Belgium within the newest chart following the Red Lions’ current FIH Hockey Pro League draw and defeat by the hands of the Netherlands.
Australia will shut the yr with 2642.25 factors, simply 10 factors forward of FIH Hockey Pro League and Olympic champions Belgium, who’ve 2632.12.
Netherlands (2234.33) and Germany (2038.71) are positioned in fourth and fifth positions respectively. The high ten is accomplished by England (sixth – 1990.62), Argentina (seventh – 1826.11), New Zealand (eighth – 1598.24), Spain (ninth – 1532.33) and Malaysia (tenth – 1427.18).
The Asian Champions Trophy noticed numerous exchanges of rating factors between the competing groups, though there was little when it comes to motion. Champions South Korea stay sixteenth with runners up Japan nonetheless in seventeenth place. Fourth positioned finishers Pakistan proceed to carry onto 18th place, whereas fifth positioned Bangladesh have dropped two locations to 40.
Among ladies, India have dropped a rung to ninth spot from the final replace.
The Indian ladies’s group, which completed a historic fourth within the Tokyo Olympics, will finish the yr with 1810.32 factors.
Netherlands ladies will end the yr on the high of the FIH world rankings.
The Oranje finish 2021 with 3015.35 factors, over 600 rating factors forward of second positioned England (2375.78). Olympic silver medallists Argentina will start 2022 within the third spot, being simply 14 factors behind England with 2361.28.
Australia (2334.04) will end the yr in fourth place, with Germany (2126.15) and Spain (1959.62) fifth and sixth positions respectively. Belgium (seventh place – 1939.88), New Zealand (eighth place – 1821.11), India (ninth place – 1810.32) and China (tenth place – 1677.96) full the highest ten.
