Vandana Katariya

We're playing for national flag, casteist slurs must stop, says Vandana Katariya

Indian women’s hockey player Vandana Katariya said that she was playing for the national team and wished that such incidents would not happen.

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Heartbreak for India women's hockey team, lose bronze medal play-off to Great Britain

A maiden Olympic medal remained out of bounds for India as World No 4 Great Britain, who were gold-winners in the 2016 Rio Games, came out on top in the pulsating encounter.

Vandana Katariya's family subjected to casteist slurs after India lose to Argentina in Olympics

The abusers told Vandana Katariya's family that India lost because "too many Dalits have made it to the team."

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Vandana Katariya stars as Indian women's hockey team keep quarter-final hopes alive with win

Vandana Katariya (4th, 17th, 49th minutes) scored a hat-trick while young Neha Goyal (32nd) was the other goal-getter for India.

Switching from handball to hockey changed my life, says India women's forward Udita

Udita, who has played 32 matches so far, was named in the 16-member Indian team that will participate at the Tokyo Games beginning 23 July.

Amid lockdown relaxations, 'homesick' Indian hockey players allowed to leave SAI centre on a month's break

Both the men's and women's national hockey teams were stuck at the Sports Authority of India (SAI) South Centre in Bengaluru since 25 March when the government announced the nationwide lockdown to control the COVID-19 pandemic.

Arjuna Award nominees Vandana Katariya, Monica confident of Indian women's hockey team's good show at Tokyo Olympics

Arjuna Award nominees Vandana Katariya and Monica on Friday said the Indian women's hockey team has a good balance of experience and youth and remains confident of achieving its goal of doing well at the Tokyo Olympics.

'Enjoy mentoring young players in team', says Indian women's hockey team striker Vandana Katariya

With training activities shut because of the coronavirus-forced national lockdown, Vandana said currently their focus is on physical fitness and analysis of opponents.

Indian women's hockey team coach Sjoerd Marijne says smaller group of 25 probables in national camp will raise quality of training

Last year, the Indian women's team produced some outstanding performances as they won the FIH Women's Series Finals Hiroshima, Tokyo 2020 Olympic Test Event in Japan, and the Olympic qualifiers

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Hockey India name 22 players for senior women's national camp ahead of qualifiers against USA

India women's team chief coach Sjoerd Marijne said that the team is feeling upbeat after a good tour of Great Britain and will look to get used to the pitch at Bhubaneswar