Paris Olympic 2024 India beat Australia Hockey: In Paris Olympics 2024, a hockey match was played between India and Australia today i.e. on 2nd August. The Indian hockey team under the leadership of Harmanpreet Singh has won this match. This win was very important for the Indian team in hockey. Team India is consistently performing brilliantly in hockey. With two goals from Harman and one goal from Abhishek, India won the match by a margin of 3-2. Both India and Australia have reached the quarter-finals of the Paris Olympic 2024, but this victory has boosted the morale of the Indian team.
In this match played between India and Australia teams, Indian hockey team dominated Australia from the beginning. Abhishek scored one goal and Harmanpreet Singh scored two goals for India, while Thomas Craig and Blake Gowers scored for Australia. With the win in this match, the Indian hockey team has reached the second position in the points table in Group B. India now have 10 points from 5 matches. While the Australian team is in the third position with 9 points from 5 matches.
Paris Olympic 2024: Indian hockey team makes history
After 52 years, India defeated Australia in a hockey match at the Olympics. Team India last defeated Australia in 1972 Olympics. With this, the Indian team is on a roll in its quest for a second consecutive Olympic medal. So far they have lost only against Belgium. Apart from this, the team has consistently performed well. India started their campaign in the Olympics with a win against New Zealand. India then drew against Argentina. Argentina was leading 1-0 till the end. Captain Harmanpreet leveled the match with 1.45 minutes remaining.
After the match against Argentina, the team defeated Ireland. Even in the Belgium match, the Indian team maintained its dominance throughout the match, but in the last moments, they had to lose the match 1-2. So now the team won the match against Australia.
Team India took revenge
This victory will surely heal the wounds of the Indian hockey fans after the 8-0 defeat in the final of the Delhi Commonwealth Games 2010 and 7-0 in the final of the Birmingham Commonwealth Games. Prior to this match, India had won only 3 out of 11 matches against Australia at the Olympics (1960 Rome quarter-final, 1964 Tokyo semi-final and 1972 Munich group match) while Australia had won six and drawn two.
