Harmanpreet, Gurjeet, Sreejesh short-listed for FIH Annual Honors Hockey News – Times of India

Lausanne: Indian men’s hockey team drag-flicker Harmanpreet Singh and their female counterparts Gurjit Kaur He was nominated for the FIH Player of the Year awards on Monday as the country short-listed all categories on the basis of its stellar performance at the Tokyo Olympics.
Veterans India Patron PR Sreejesh Savita Punia was among three short-listed for the Goalkeeper of the Year award for men, while Savita Punia was among three short-listed for the women’s category.
Indian men’s team head coach Graham Reid and women’s team counterpart Sjoerd Marijne were the three nominees for the FIH Coach of the Year awards for men and women.
Harmanpreet had scored six goals in eight matches with her drag-flick to help the Indian men’s team clinch a historic bronze medal, its first Olympic medal in 41 years.

Gurjit was also an important member of the Indian women’s team which reached the semi-finals for the first time before losing to Great Britain in the bronze medal play-off.
The 25-year-old from Punjab scored the deciding goal from a penalty corner in India’s impressive 1-0 win over Australia in the quarter-finals.
Argentine players Augustina Albertario and Augustina Gorzelene and Dutch women’s Eva de Goede, Frederic Matala and Maria Verchur were nominated for the FIH Player of the Year for women.

Apart from Harmanpreet, gold winners Arthur van Dooren and Alexander Hendrix of Belgium and silver winners Jake Wetten, Aran Zalevsky and Tim Brand of Australia were named FIH Player of the Year for men.
Besides Sreejesh, Belgium’s Vincent Vanash and Australia’s Andrew Charter were nominated for the goalkeeper of the year award for men.
Among the women, Maddie Hinch of Great Britain and Belen Susi of Argentina were nominated for the Goalkeeper of the Year award along with Savita.
India’s Sharmila Devi was nominated for the FIH Rising Star of the Year Award for Women along with Fiona Crackles (Great Britain) and Valentina Raposo (Argentina), while Vivek Prasad was nominated for the FIH Rising Star of the Year Award for Mustafa Qasim (South Africa) and Sean Findlay (South Africa). New Zealand) was named. Male.

Reid was named alongside Shane McLeod (Belgium team) and Colin Bach (Australia), while Sjoerd Marijne was named in charge of their respective women’s teams alongside Alison Annan (Netherlands team) and Mark Hager (Great Britain team). was selected for.
Players, coaches, media and fans can register their votes for the nominees in the respective women’s and men’s Player, Goalkeeper, Rising Star and Coach of the Year categories from Monday (23 August) to 15 September, the FIH said in a release. .
The votes of the national associations count for 50 percent of the total result. Each NA will be given two votes per gender, which will come from the captain and head coach of the national team.
Media votes count for 25 percent of the overall result, while fans/players’ votes count for 25 percent of the overall result.
Winners will be announced either next month or early October.
With no Hockey Stars Awards in 2020 due to the impact of the COVID-19 global health pandemic on the international calendar, this year’s awards cover the period from January 2020 until the conclusion of the Tokyo Olympics.
This means that the 2020-21 edition of the FIH Hockey Pro League has been kept in mind.