{"id":22691,"date":"2021-07-31T11:36:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T06:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=131440"},"modified":"2021-07-31T11:36:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T06:06:26","slug":"tokyo-olympics-india-womens-hockey-team-defeats-south-africa-4-3-in-a-do-or-die-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/olympics\/tokyo-olympics-india-womens-hockey-team-defeats-south-africa-4-3-in-a-do-or-die-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Olympics: India women\u2019s hockey team defeats South Africa 4-3 in a do-or-die game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India beat South Africa 4-3 in their a-must-win match on the final day of the women\u2019s hockey pool stage game at the Oi Stadium on Saturday. Vandana Katariya scored a hat-trick for her nation and became the first from the country to do so in Olympics as a women\u2019s hockey player.\u00a0 She propelled her side in increasing the chances of advancing to the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A win to remember, a day to cherish! \ud83d\udc4f<\/p>\n<p>Some glimpses from our game against South Africa. \ud83d\udcf8<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/INDvRSA?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#INDvRSA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HaiTayyar?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HaiTayyar<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IndiaKaGame?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IndiaKaGame<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TeamIndia?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TeamIndia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tokyo2020?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tokyo2020<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TokyoTogether?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TokyoTogether<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StrongerTogether?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StrongerTogether<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HockeyInvites?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HockeyInvites<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WeAreTeamIndia?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WeAreTeamIndia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Hockey?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Hockey<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OQwwrtPk7Z\">pic.twitter.com\/OQwwrtPk7Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hockey India (@TheHockeyIndia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheHockeyIndia\/status\/1421347755037921280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>India started with the early lead as the hat-trick girl Vandana Katariya netted from the close range at the fourth minute but South Africa managed to equalise at the 15th minute of the game to do 1:1 at the final minute of the first quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Vandana struck again to give a lead at the 17th minute when she converted the Penalty Corner but it didn\u2019t last long as Erin Hunter cane up with an equaliser at 30\u2032 to end the first half at 2-2.<\/p>\n<p>Indians opened the third quarter with an early lead at 32nd minute after Neha scored from the penalty corner but Marizen Marais made it 3-3 at 39\u2032 and that\u2019s how the third quarter ended with both the teams having three goals each.<\/p>\n<p>In the fourth quarter, women in blue started with an attacking mode and gained a Penalty Corner but were saved by the opponents but a few moments later, Vandana with a third goal of the game netted a hat-trick to let her side dominate at 49th minute. South Africans failed to find any equaliser this time and the match ended in favour of the blues.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3 4\u20e3 \u2013 3\u20e3 \ud83c\uddff\ud83c\udde6<\/p>\n<p>\u090f\u0915 \u0926\u092e \u0938\u0947 \u0935\u0915\u094d\u0924 \u092c\u0926\u0932 \u0926\u093f\u090f, \u091c\u091c\u093c\u094d\u092c\u093e\u0924 \u092c\u0926\u0932 \u0926\u093f\u090f\u2026\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IND?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IND<\/a> women\u2019s hockey team is still in the running to qualify for the quarter-final after a thrilling 4-3 win over <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RSA?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RSA<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tokyo2020?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tokyo2020<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UnitedByEmotion?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UnitedByEmotion<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StrongerTogether?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StrongerTogether<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Olympic Khel (@OlympicKhel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OlympicKhel\/status\/1421337236952559624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s Starting XI: Savita (GK), Gurjit Kaur, Deep Grace Ekka, Udita, Nisha, Neha, Monika, Navjot Kaur, Navneet Kaur, Rani (C), Vandana Katariya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the final day of the Women\u2019s Hockey pool stage game, India beat South Africa 4-3 at the Oi Hockey Stadium. Vandana Katariya scored a hat-trick to empower her side to enhance the prospects of entering the quarterfinals.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":42877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[281,1732,1915,2176,1555,2228,2393,2125,638,1363],"class_list":["post-22691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-olympics","tag-hockey","tag-hockey-india","tag-indian-hockey-team","tag-indian-womens-hockey-team","tag-tokyo","tag-tokyo-2020","tag-tokyo-2020-olympics","tag-tokyo-games","tag-tokyo-olympics","tag-womens-hockey-team"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}