While the 54-year-old Van Ass, who was at the helm of affairs of the Dutch team from 2010 to 2014, will take charge of the men's team, New Zealand's Anthony Thornton, 47, will replace Neil Hawgood as coach of the women's senior team.
This was Apurvi's second ISSF World Cup gold of the year followed by a world record score in New Delhi in February.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Wednesday
Lilima Minz's goal went in vain as the Indian women's hockey team were edged 1-2 by hosts Australia in their final round-robin game at the Four Nations hockey tournament in Darwin, Australia on Friday.
The Government of India is set to appoint Hockey India's Director High Performance Roelant Oltmans as Chief Coordinator and High Performance Director for Indian Hockey.
Hockey fraternity including three former captains on Friday expressed shock over the decision to appoint women's team coach Sjoerd Marijne as head coach of the Indian men's side, saying the abrupt move 'defies logic'.
Olympians Joaquim Carvalho, Gurbux Singh and Gavin Fereira on Thursday hit out at the Indian Olympic Association for forming Hockey India, a unified body embracing the men's and women's units, in an 'undemocratic manner'.
Following is India's schedule at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, on Thursday, September 28.
India had topped the five-team league standings with three wins and one draw
Images from the felicitation for India's Tokyo Olympics medal-winners, in Delhi, on Monday.
Indian women's team did not find a place in the top 10.
Three years after he resigned as national women's hockey coach on charges of sexual harassment only to be absolved later, Maharaj Krishan Kaushik feels vindicated after Hockey India nominated him to assist Indian men's team coach Michael Nobbs till the 2016 Rio Olympics.
India frittered away a 3-0 lead in the third women's Test between the two countries.
India will send 117 athletes to the Paris Olympics, starting July 26 in the French capital. This will be India's second-biggest contingent at an Olympic Games after 121 athletes went to Tokyo in 2021. A total of 47 female and 70 male athletes will be part of the Indian contingent at the Games.
President Ram Nath Kovind hosted high tea for the Indian contingent to the Tokyo Olympics 2020 at the Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre on Independence Day eve, August 14, 2021.
Harmanpreet (41', 51') and Ramandeep Singh (35') scored in the second half after Akashdeep Singh (5') and SV Sunil (20') had put India ahead at half-time.
Manavjit Singh Sandhu and trap shooters Anwer Sultan and Mansher Singh earned India two silver medals.
India fought valiantly against higher-ranked China before going down by a solitary goal in their second Pool A match of the eighth Women's Asia Cup hockey tournament in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday.
Five other elite track and field athletes have also tested positive at the SAI centre in Bengaluru.
India ended day1 at the Commonwealth Games with a gold and silver medal.
The hockey team lost their opening match of the four-Test series 2-1 against the hosts at the Stellenbosch hockey stadium.
Let's delve into the five most notable sporting accomplishments that India has achieved post August 15, 1947.
Two goals down, the Indian women's hockey team scored two minutes from time to snatch a 2-2 draw.
The FIH Athletes Committee serves as a consultative body and makes recommendations to the FIH Executive Board, FIH Committees, Advisory Panels and other bodies.
India's boxers finished with a haul of one gold, two silver and two bronze, their best from the sport at any Commonwealth Games.
'To the youth, I will say work hard. One minute of work will not get you anything. I have worked hard for the past 20 years, 2002 was the first time I won a gold medal.'
Images from Day 1 of the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games.
Love for Gold and Longing for Husband: Indian hockey captain Savita gears up for Asiad
With an impressive number of votes, 199,477, Rani Rampal was a clear winner of the Athlete of the Year race. Sports fans all over the world voted for their favourite during 20 days of polling in January. Over 705,610 votes were cast during the poll.
The training camps for both the men and women teams will begin in Bengaluru from Wednesday.
The gigantic Stade de France resembled a concert hall hosting a party to celebrate the fortnight of sporting excellence as the breathtaking Closing Ceremony of the Paris Olympics kicked-off with athletes marching into the iconic stadium to thunderous applause in Paris on Sunday.
Borgohain (69kg) signed off with a bronze medal in the Olympic Games after a comprehensive 0-5 loss to reigning world champion Busenaz Surmeneli.
Shooters continued to deliver medals for India at the 17th Asian Games with the trio of Heena Siddhu, Rahi Sarnobat and Anisa Sayyed cliching a bronze in the women's 25m pistol event in Incheon on Monday.
President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday approved 139 Padma awards including seven Padma Vibhushans, 19 Padma Bhushans and 113 Padma Shris.
Rani was instrumental in India qualifying for the first time in back-to-back Olympic Games.
India's teen wizard Rani Rampal and defender Sardar Singh have made it to the FIH All Stars team, International Hockey Federation announced on Saturday.
Here are hockey players to watch when the Games formally kick off on July 23:
India put up a fighting performance but could not avert a defeat, going down 0-1 to Australia in the last round-robin league match of the first phase of a four-nation women's hockey tournament in Auckland on Sunday.
The men's team last participated in an international competition in February last year when they played the FIH Hockey Pro League matches against Australia in Bhubaneswar.
The sports ministry cleared the final contingent that also features 140 support staff and officials, of which 72 "have been approved at cost to the Government" to meet the "requirements" of the travelling sportspersons.
