Dragflick Newsdesk : Star Indian girls’s hockey staff striker Vandana Katariya has set her eyes on wining the gold medal on this 12 months’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 facet within the Tokyo Olympics, can also be eyeing a top-two end result on this 12 months’s FIH Girls’s World Cup to be co-hosted by the Netherlands and Spain from July 1 to 17.
“The purpose that I’ve set for myself this 12 months 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 12 months, the place our purpose is to make it into the ultimate of the competitors. I’m going to work actually arduous on my technical expertise in coaching, as a result of that’s one of the simplest ways that I can assist the staff’s trigger,” Vandana mentioned in a launch issued by Hockey India.
Following her father’s demise in April 2021, Vandana additionally spoke concerning the assist she had obtained from her teammates and chief coach Janneke Schopman at a tough interval in her life.
“After shedding my father final 12 months, the assist that I obtained from my teammates, nationwide staff workers and (chief coach) Janneke Schopman helped me stand on my toes once more.
“It has been a serious turning level in my life and my profession. I realised that identical to I’ve a household again dwelling, these persons are like my household within the nationwide camp,” she mentioned.
Vandana rose to stardom final 12 months by turning into the primary Indian girls’s hockey participant ever to attain a hat-trick within the Olympics. Vandana’s efforts contributed to the Indian girls’s hockey staff registering its best-ever efficiency on the Olympic Video games.
