Indian men's hockey team win Olympic bronze, ends 41years wait for a medal

Indian men's hockey team win Olympic bronze

TOKYO: The Indian men's hockey team rewrote history by winning an Olympic medal for the first time in 41 years, defeating Germany 5-4 in an action-packed playoff match at the ongoing Olympic Games here on Thursday.

This is India's first Olympic medal in hockey since winning gold in the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

India rallied from a two-goal deficit to take a two-goal lead at the end of the third quarter. Germany cut the deficit in the fourth quarter by scoring from a penalty corner.

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Earlier, at halftime, Team India came back from a 1-3 deficit to tie the game at 3-3.

Simranjeet Singh (17th, 34th minutes) scored twice for India, while Hardik Singh (27th), Harmanpreet Singh (29th), and Rupinder PalSingh (31) also scored.