Key points: India men’s hockey team defeated Germany to win the bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday.
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Tokyo Olympics, India versus Germany: India men’s hockey group have won the bronze decoration in Tokyo after crushing Germany 5-4.
India men’s hockey team crushed Germany to win the bronze decoration at the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday. This is India’s first Olympic decoration in hockey since they won the gold award in the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. It was an exciting issue between the two groups that went directly down to the centre.
India needed to return twice from behind in the match to even out the scores and afterwards needed to push on to start to lead the pack. However, mentor Graham Reid’s side showed incredible demeanour in the withering minutes of the match to prearrange history.
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India saw Germany take an early lead, with Timur Cruz scoring inside two minutes of the match. Germany disturbed Indian safeguard in the primary quarter yet couldn’t figure out how to broaden their lead.
India’s Simranjeet Singh scored from a professional hatchet shot in the subsequent quarter, yet protective blunders prompted Germany to score two additional objectives inside two minutes. Then, exactly when it looked like India may be in a difficult situation, two punishment corners for India yielded results as Hardik Singh scored on the bounce back from the first. In contrast, Harmanpreet Singh stuck the second one with a great drag-flick onto the rear of the nets to even out the scores at 3-3 by halftime.
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The second from last quarter was where the tide moved in support of India as Rupinder Pal Singh changed over a punishment stroke after Mandeep Singh stumbled inside the scoring circle. Minutes later, Simranjeet Singh scored from open play after Gurjant Singh split past German safeguard from the right and pushed the ball to him before the goal. Simranjeet committed no error and stuck it into the net neatly to broaden India’s lead.
Lukas Windfeder pulled one back in the last quarter from a punishment corner. However, it was insufficient for Germany to push the game to the shootouts. Germany got a punishment corner in the withering seconds of the match. Yet, India goalkeeper PR Sreejesh made an incredible save to deny Windfeder this time as Manpreet Singh and co. Prearranged history in Tokyo.
This is India’s fourth-award (and fifth affirmed) in Tokyo up until now. Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu won silver in the 48kg class, fighter Lovlina Borgohain won the bronze award in the ladies’ welterweight classification, and shuttler PV Sindhu won a bronze decoration in the ladies’ singles contest. In the interim, grappler Ravi Kumar Dahiya has affirmed a decoration and will contest in the gold award session on Thursday evening.
It was a decent excursion for India men’s hockey group in Tokyo Olympics, crushing New Zealand 3-2 in their initial gathering game, and afterwards getting prevails upon Germany (2-0), Spain (3-1), Argentina (3-1), and Japan (5-3) in the gathering matches. Notwithstanding the 7-1 loss against Australia and the 5-2 misfortune in the elimination round to the World Champions Belgium, India dominated every one of their games in Tokyo.
