Savita Punia and P R Sreejesh were named FIH Goalkeepers of the Year for the second consecutive year.
India midfielder Navjot Kaur's campaign at the 2022 Commonwealth Games came to an abrupt end as she is set to fly back home after testing positive for COVID-19.
The Indian women's junior hockey team got off to a sensational start in the 7th Asia Cup as they hammered Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) 13-0 in their opening match at Changzhou on Saturday.
A second half goal being disallowed, Indian women were held to a surprise 1-1 draw by a lowly Ukraine in their opening match of London Olympics hockey qualifiers at the Dhyan Chand National Stadium in New Delhi on Saturday.
A look at the historic achievements by India's athletes in 2022.
The valiant Indian women hockey team had to be satisfied with the silver medal after they went down 3-5 to formidable China in an action-packed final of the seventh Asia Cup in Bangkok.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Tuesday
Hockey India president Dilip Tirkey said India can win a World Cup medal this time after a hiatus of 48 years but for that the home side needs to make use of penalty corners.
'If he is being spoken in the same breath as Dhyan Chand, then you can image how good he was.'
The general impression that the Indian hockey team concedes late goals has changed with its second successive Olympic bronze medal and the Harmanpreet Singh-led side is one of the best in the world in all aspects, feels the legendary Zafar Iqbal.
Britain's world number three Andy Murray stressed the importance of gender equality in tennis, saying the work ethic required to succeed is the same for both men and women.
The Indian women's hockey team pumped in three goals in the second half to hold World No 4 and hosts Germany to a 3-3 draw in the opening match of a four-nation tournament in Essen.
'I look at the difference at how men's coaches are treated. Between me and the men's coach, or the girls and the men's team.'
India lose 3-4 against Germany in shoot-out, to face Japan for Paris berth
Indian men's team clubbed with Pakistan in Asian Games hockey
Women's hockey team captain Jyoti Sunita Kullu will have the honour of carrying the Indian tricolour at the opening ceremony of the Asian Games.
The Indian Women's team drew 2-2 with New Zealand in the second Test to maintain its 1-0 lead in the five-Test hockey series at the Endeavour Trust Twin Turfs in Palmerston North, New Zealand on Sunday.
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.
Hockey India's four-member committee, including two former Olympians Ajit Pal Singh and Zafar Iqbal, is likely to nail former chief coach of the Indian hockey team M K Kaushik on the alleged sexual harassment of the members the Indian women's hockey team.
Indian weightlifter Mirabai Chanu won the BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year twice in a row.
The Indian women hockey team ended their Australian tour with a 1-3 defeat in the third and final match as they lost the series 1-2 at the State Netball & Hockey Centre, in Melbourne on Sunday.
It was touted as the year which could herald a change in the fortunes Indian hockey, but 2018 turned out to be yet another saga of missed opportunities for the sport.
India's chances of going through depends on the result of the last Pool A match between Ireland and Great Britain, later in the day.
The final quarter witnessed an aggressive display from both sides, with Germany coming close to extending their lead.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday stepped up its protest against Rahul Gandhi for his 'panauti' jibe against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and urged the Election Commission to take action against the Congress leader.
Indian eves suffered their heaviest defeat in the history of women's hockey World Cup when they were mauled 1-7 by defending champions The Netherlands in their opening match in Rosario, Argentina.
Savita, who was part of the Rio squad, believes the team is much improved now, evident from its recent performances against top sides.
Rani was instrumental in India qualifying for the first time in back-to-back Olympic Games.
Indian women's hockey coach M K Kaushik resigned on Wednesday in the wake of the sex scandal that has rocked Indian hockey. Hockey India secretary-general Narinder Batra told reporters that Kaushik had submitted his resignation to interim president Vidya Stokes.
India had seven points from four matches, ahead of hosts Australia on goal difference, with New Zealand finishing third with only three points from their four matches.
Nidhi made back-to-back saves in the second quarter to keep the scores level after 25 minutes.
The Indian captain led from the front and pulled off as many as six saves in the shootout
A day after upsetting world No.3 Australia, India women once again played an entertaining and fast-paced brand of hockey to defeat the United States 2-1 via shootout in an FIH Pro League match in Rourkela on Sunday.
His wards might have failed to break the medal jinx at the just-concluded Rio Olympics, but Indian men's hockey team's chief coach Roelant Oltmans says their results in the quadrennial extravaganza were satisfactory if not ideal. India finished fourth in group stage having won two, drawn one and lost two. One of India's win came against eventual gold medallists, Argentina. But the Men in Blue failed to go beyond the quarterfinals having lost 1-3 to silver medallists Belgium.
India women rose from the ashes to tame New Zealand 3-1 with a spirited performance in their second pool match of the FIH Women's Olympic Qualifier.
Indian women's team's chief coach Sjoerd Marijne said, we have chartered out our plans for the next seven months and we have a clear vision of what we need to improve on and the level we seek to achieve ahead of the Olympics.
The view is that the attention on the national team is fleeting, incidental and dependent on the results they produce.
Photographs of the women's hockey team videographer with a prostitute.
Indian women hockey could never recover from three early setbacks and ended up losing the Hawke's Bay Cup quarter-final 1-3 to Japan, in Hastings, on Thursday.
This was Apurvi's second ISSF World Cup gold of the year followed by a world record score in New Delhi in February.
