Harmanpreet Nominated For FIH Player Of Year Award

NEW DELHI: India's star drag-flicker Harmanpreet Singh was on Tuesday named among the five nominees for the men's Player of the Year honour, while PR Sreejesh and Savita Punia figured in the shortlists for the best male and female goalkeeper for the FIH Hockey Stars Awards 2021-22.

India's vice-captain Harmanpreet was named along with two Belgians in Arthur de Sloover and Tom Boon, Niklas Wellen of Germany and Thierry Brinkman of the Netherlands for the FIH men's Player of the Year award. There is no Indian in the list of players nominated for the FIH women's Player of the Year award.

Harmanpreet had also won the coveted award last year when the Indian players and coaches swept all the honours after their historic Olympic Games performance in Tokyo where the men's team won a bronze for the first time after 41 years while the women's side lost in the bronze-medal match.

India men's team coach Graham Reid, Sreejesh and Savita also won last year.

The sweeping of the awards by the Indians in all the five categories last year (2020-21) had led to a furore, especially from men's Olympic champions Belgium. Agencies

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