The Indian ladies’s group will take part in the 2023 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s Asia and Oceania Championship in Thailand from April 30 to May 7.
Tsewang Chuskit will captain the India squad with Dr Noor Jahan, a conservationist by coaching, in cost of the aim. The group is scheduled to depart for Thailand on April 11 however earlier than that gamers can have their coaching.
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The coaching of the 20-member Indian Ice Hockey squad, together with 5 debutants, which will likely be coached by Canadian Darrin Harrold with Tsewang Gyaltson and Amit Belwal helping him, is being supported by Royal Enfield.
The help from the world’s oldest motorbike firm comes after it has introduced a partnership with the Indian ladies’s Ice Hockey group in order to strengthen their Olympic ambitions. It is an extension of the connection of Royal Enfield with UT Ladakh in order to develop winter sports activities in the area.
To have fun this partnership, the motorbike firm together with the Ice Hockey Association of India unveiled the brand new jersey for Team India in the nationwide capital and it was was adopted by a panel dialogue among the many 20 gamers of the Indian nationwide group, hailing from Ladakh and Himachal Pradesh, on the expansion of Ice Hockey throughout the Himalayas, the event of winter sports activities and winter tourism.
Royal Enfield is at the moment working with all stakeholders to develop Ice Hockey, winter sport and winter tourism throughout the Himalayas. The goal is to construct an eco-system for Ice Hockey that can finally allow Indian gamers to compete on the highest ranges of the game, together with the Winter Olympics.
“It’s really a proud second for all of us on the Ice Hockey Association of India as our ladies put together to compete at yet one more main international championship. Our aim is to make sure that extra folks throughout the nation see ice hockey as the intense aggressive sport it’s and not only a winter leisure sport. India has large potential when it comes to winter sports activities, and we’re glad that Royal Enfield has agreed to be a accomplice in our efforts to develop this sport and allow our gamers to compete with the most effective,” Harjinder Singh Jindi, General Secretary, Ice Hockey Association of India was quoted as saying in a media release.
Notably, the 18 women from the Union Territory of Ladakh and two from the state of Himachal Pradesh are at the spearhead of a sport that has grown in popularity over the past decade in these mountainous regions.
Owing to the natural formation of ice through the winter months, the sport of Ice Hockey has steadily gained popularity and is passionately played, not only as winter entertainment but also as a serious sport.
“The Himalayas is our spiritual home and our partnership with the Indian Women’s Ice Hockey team, is part of our social ambition to work together with 100 Himalayan communities to build resilience and support their ecosystem. Royal Enfield has been commissioned by UT Ladakh to develop a blueprint for Ice Hockey, towards achieving the ambition of Team India competing in the Winter Olympics.
Alongside, we have been supporting the training of coaches and players, both at the grassroots level as well as at advanced levels and with necessary equipment and infrastructure. Tonight, we are proud to host these incredible women and wish them all the best as they head off to the icy battles that lie ahead of them in the Championship,” stated Bidisha Dey, Executive Director, Eicher Group Foundation, the CSR arm of Royal Enfield.
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In 2023, 18 Asian nations will likely be represented in the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship programme at totally different ranges. These embody Kazakhstan, Korea, Japan, China, the United Arab Emirates, DPR Korea, Turkmenistan, Chinese Taipei, Thailand, Hong Kong (China), Kyrgyzstan, Iran, Singapore, Malaysia, Kuwait, the Philippines, Mongolia and Indonesia.
The IIHF Asia and Oceania Championship (previously IIHF Challenge Cup of Asia) provides Asian and Oceania members that aren’t but a part of the World Championship Program the prospect to compete and achieve worthwhile sport expertise. It can also be an necessary platform main to the Asian Winter Games.
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