The Indian hockey team may have missed out on reaching the final in the Paris Olympics 2024, even though it missed out on winning the Olympic gold after 44 years, but once again Team India has returned from the Olympics with a medal. Team India defeated Spain 2-1 in a thrilling bronze medal match and with this won the bronze for the second consecutive Olympics. The star of this victory of Team India was captain Harmanpreet Singh, who scored both the goals for Team India. In this way, after the Tokyo Olympics, the Indian team has also returned from Paris with an Olympic bronze and captain Harmanpreet has played the most important role in this by scoring goals with his hockey stick.

There were some special characters in Team India's strong performance in this entire Olympics. Veteran goalkeeper PR Sreejesh, who was playing for India for the last time, stood like a wall throughout the tournament, while the rest of the defenders also defended the goal with full vigor. But to win, it is necessary to score goals as well as save goals and the team captain Harmanpreet Singh did both these things together. Harmanpreet Singh, who was captaining the Indian team for the first time in the Olympics, stepped forward and led the team with his strong performance, the result of which was also seen in the team's success.

Most goals in the tournament

Along with this, Harmanpreet Singh also did that amazing feat which is not easy in Olympics. From the first match of the group stage itself, Harmanpreet contributed to the team's victory with his explosive drag flick. The team's penalty corner specialist Harmanpreet scored goals in 4 out of 5 matches of the group stage (first, second, third and fifth). After this, he also scored goals against Australia in the quarter-finals, Germany in the semi-finals and Spain in the bronze medal match.

The captain scored two goals for the team against Spain. In this way, the Indian captain scored the highest number of 10 goals among all the teams during the entire tournament.

did wonders in Tokyo too

Earlier, Harmanpreet had shown her prowess in the Tokyo Olympics and even then she had scored the most 6 goals for India. In that Olympics, it was the magic of Harmanpreet's drag flick that helped the Indian team break through the defense of a team like Germany in the bronze medal match and win the medal.

Harmanpreet was not the captain of the team then but he had shown his prowess. This time, as the captain, he performed even better than before and became the biggest star of the team's success by scoring more goals.

Harmanpreet was not the captain of the team then but he had shown his prowess. This time, as the captain, he performed even better than before and became the biggest star of the team's success by scoring more goals.