The Netherlands produced a medical efficiency to beat India and declare the inaugural title as the ladies’s event on the FIH Hockey5s World Cup got here to an finish in Muscat, Oman on Saturday.
In doing so the seemingly invincible Oranje added yet one more trophy to their unimaginable assortment which incorporates Olympic gold, world senior and junior titles, Indoor World Cup gold and the FIH Hockey Professional League title.
Earlier within the day, Poland secured the bronze medal with a victory over South Africa whereas within the newly launched Challenger Trophy, for the groups that didn’t make it by to the quarter-finals, it was the USA who prevailed to say the title by defeating Namibia.
Right here is how the ultimate pulsating day of motion went down…
A devastating first-half efficiency made all of the distinction for the Netherlands of their 7-2 victory over India within the last. The Dutch took the sphere with out Noor de Baat, their captain and eventual participant of the event, whose knee damage within the semi-final dominated her out of the ultimate, however this solely appeared to function further motivation for her crew. They scored early objectives for the primary time within the event, surging to a 2-0 lead in simply 4 minutes and going into the break 6-0 up. India had been a lot better within the second half and gained that interval 2-1, however there was merely no getting back from the sooner harm. Bente van der Veldt scored two of the Netherlands’ seven objectives within the last to take her private tally to fifteen, the second highest of the event.
Janneke van de Venne took a second to replicate on the Dutch success: “We really feel nice as a crew, we labored arduous for this and we’re very proud that we did it at this time. It was such a troublesome journey however proud that we’re right here now. It’s very nice to play in opposition to all these international locations, you play in opposition to international locations you by no means play, so it’s actually nice to do that and to take part on the World [Cup].”
Within the bronze medal match, Poland impressed with their good construction to say a 4-2 win in opposition to South Africa, who appeared to have run out of concepts and vitality. Amelia Katerla scored all 4 objectives for Poland and was ecstatic with their third-place end on the event: “Nice, that was our aim so we did it, we gained it, so we’re very comfortable. It’s a large success as a result of we’re extra targeted on hockey 5s and indoor at this second, and it’s a small group which is collaborating in hockey anyway so it’s tough for us to advertise for instance to Olympic Video games or the larger tournaments, that’s why these tournaments imply lots to us.”
Uruguay put in a devastating second half to run away 8-4 winners in opposition to Malaysia within the 5th-place playoff. The match obtained off to a blistering begin, Uruguay going 2-0 up inside three minutes, Malaysia drawing stage three minutes later, and the South People reclaiming the lead to enter the break main 3-2. Teresa Viana put Malaysia to the sword within the second half, bagging six objectives within the match and ending the event as the highest scorer with 19 in complete.
Ukraine had been too good of their comfy 6-0 win over New Zealand for 7th place, Karyna Leonova selecting up one other 4 objectives to finish the event with 10.
Challenger Trophy
The USA had been utterly dominant within the Challenger Trophy playoff for 9th place, however they solely managed a 2-0 victory as a consequence of yet one more goalkeeping masterclass from Namibia’s wonderful Petro Stoffberg.
Abigail Burnett mirrored on the USA’s efficiency on the World Cup: “I’m actually excited that we gained, it reveals our dedication as a crew and our vitality to maintain preventing. We had a extremely arduous pool, however I believe we fought by it and I believe again house it reveals that we will compete right here and that, although we’re enjoying for the Challenger Trophy as a substitute of the large trophy, we nonetheless labored arduous.”
Australia secured 11th place with an 8-3 win over Fiji with Madeline Dooley finishing a hat-trick whereas Thailand claimed 13th spot with a 5-3 win over Paraguay.
Carol Nakombe chalked up a powerful six objectives and Loveness Mudenda added a hat-trick as Zambia crushed hosts Oman 11-3 to safe 15th spot.
Match awards:
Gold medallists: NETHERLANDS
Silver medallists: INDIA
Bronze medallists: POLAND
Runners-up of the Ladies’s Challenger Trophy: NAMIBIA
Winners of the Ladies’s Challenger Trophy: USA
Greatest Goalkeeper: Marta Kucharska (POL)
Greatest Junior Participant: Deepika Soreng (IND)
Prime Scorer (19): Teresa Viana (URU)
Greatest Participant: Noor De Baat (NED)
FIH Hockey5s World Cup, Oman – 27 January
Consequence: Match 41 (W)
Zambia 11 – 3 Oman
Consequence: Match 42 (W)
Thailand 5 – 3 Paraguay
Consequence: Match 43 (W)
Fiji 3 – 8 Australia
Consequence: Match 44 (W)
Namibia 0 – 2 USA
Consequence: Match 45 (W)
Ukraine 6 – 0 New Zealand
Consequence: Match 46 (W)
Uruguay 8 – 4 Malaysia
Consequence: Match 47 (W)
Poland 4 – 2 South Africa
Consequence: Match 48 (W)
Netherlands 7 – 2 India
Last positions:
Netherland,
India,
Poland,
South Africa,
Uruguay,
Malaysia,
Ukraine,
New Zealand,
United States,
Namibia,
Australia,
Fiji,
Thailand,
Paraguay,
Zambia,
Oman
By FIH
