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Indian field hockey player

Pritam Rani Siwach

Personal information

Born

(1974-10-02) 2 October 1974 (age 50)
Jharsa, Gurgaon, India

Medal record

Women's field hockey

Representing India
Asian Games
	1998 Bangkok	Team
Commonwealth Games
	2002 Manchester	Team
Asia Cup
	1999 New Delhi
Champions Challenge
	2002 Johannesburg	Team

Pritam Rani Siwach (born 2 October 1974) is an Indian former field hockey player, who represented the India women's national field hockey team. She also served as the captain of the Indian women's hockey team. In 2008, she was recalled to join the team for the Olympic qualifiers in order to bring an "additional wealth of experience." After the team did not qualify for the Olympics, Siwach stated in an interview, "We are not that bad as the results would show. It was simply a case of missed chances One difference between my times and now is the midfield. We had an experienced midfield with Sita Gussain at the centre. That helped us. Here, both T. H. Ranjita and Rosalind Ralte are young, just come into the team. They are potential youngsters, will only improve."

She last played with the team when it won the Gold at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. She currently runs a hockey academy at Sonipat, Haryana and is training young girls in hockey. She is also trained as a hockey coach.

Siwach

Career

Pritam was born in village Jharsa, near Gurgaon, Haryana, and started playing hockey at the age of 9. She had developed her hockey in the guidance of PTI Master Tara Chand in the school of Jharsa. Master Tara Chand and Head master Raghwendra Singh Yadav has helped her to become a best player of Hockey.

Pritam Rani Siwach is now Coach with Indian Women Hockey team for World Cup and Commonwealth Games.

Awards

Pritham received an Arjuna Award in 1998 and the Dronacharya Award in 2021.

Notes

"Pritam Rani recalled in squad". Yahoo!. 18 March 2008. Retrieved 14 April 2008.
^ "Pritam Rani stages a comeback". The Hindu. 18 March 2008. Archived from the original on 19 May 2008. Retrieved 14 April 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
"Pritam is sorry for not living up to expectations". Udayavani. 27 April 2008. Retrieved 27 April 2008.
^ "Pritam Siwach, a hockey champion, good samaritan". Hindustan Times. 13 November 2021. Retrieved 13 December 2023.

External links

v t e India squad – 1998 Asian Games – Silver medal
1 Tingonleima Chanu 2 Kamla Dalal 3 Sunita Dalal 4 Suraj Lata Devi 5 Sita Gussain 6 Amandeep Kaur 7 Manjinder Kaur 8 Sandeep Kaur 9 Surinder Kaur 10 Nidhi Khullar 11 Jyoti Sunita Kullu 12 Helen Mary 13 Neha Singh 14 Pritam Rani Siwach 15 Maristella Tirkey

v t e India squad – 1999 Asia Cup – Runners-up
1 Tingonleima Chanu 2 Amandeep Kaur 3 Marystella Tirkey 4 Sunita Dalal 5 Sita Gussain (c) 6 Sumrai Tete 7 Kamala Dalal 8 Manjinder Kaur 9 Pritam Rani Siwach 10 Suraj Lata Devi 11 Jyoti Sunita Kullu 12 Ngasepam Pakpi Devi 13 Helen Mary 14 Sandeep Kaur 15 Surinder Kaur 16 Agnecia Lugun 17 Fardina Ekka 18 Paulina Surin Coach: Gurdial Singh Bhangu

v t e India squad – 2002 Commonwealth Games – Gold medal (1st Title)
1 Kanti Baa 2 Suman Bala 3 Sanggai Chanu 4 Tingonleima Chanu 5 Ngasepam Pakpi Devi 6 Suraj Lata Devi (c) 7 Sita Gussain 8 Saba Anjum Karim 9 Amandeep Kaur 10 Manjinder Kaur 11 Mamta Kharab 12 Jyoti Sunita Kullu 13 Helen Mary 14 Masira Surin 15 Pritam Rani Siwach 16 Sumrai Tete

v t e India squad – 2002 Champions Challenge – 3rd place
1 Tingonleima Chanu (c) 2 Amandeep Kaur 3 Suman Bala 4 Suraj Lata Devi 5 Sita Gussain 6 Sumrai Tete 7 Nidhi Mukesh Kumar 8 Surinder Kaur 9 Pritam Rani Siwach 10 Mamta Kharab 11 Jyoti Sunita Kullu 12 Helen Mary 13 Pushpa Pradhan 14 Masira Surin 16 Agnecia Lugun 18 Ngasepam Pakpi Devi 22 Shahina Kispotta 26 Sanggai Chanu

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