NEW DELHI: The ever improving Indian men's national hockey team capped what was a stellar 2019, by winning the
Times of India Sports Awards
(TOISA), powered by BHIM-UPI, Team of the Year award on Thursday.
Even though 2019 began with another defeat in a title match, when the team lost to South Korea in the
Sultan Azlan Shah Cup final on penalties, the Indian team finished off the year on a high by earning a ticket to the 2020 Summer Olympics.
The Asian Games debacle meant India had to go through the FIH Olympic Qualifiers. For that, the team first won the FIH Series Finals at home and then defeated Russia 11-3 on aggregate in the two-match Olympic qualifying event in Bhubaneswar to book a Tokyo 2020 ticket.
And in what was a first, two Indian male players bagged FIH awards with skipper
Manpreet Singh becoming FIH Player of the Year 2019 while midfielder Vivek Sagar Prasad was named FIH Men's Rising Star of the Year 2019.
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