{"id":22414,"date":"2017-02-28T12:05:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T12:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=22414"},"modified":"2017-02-28T12:05:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T12:05:33","slug":"hockey-stars-awards-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/hockey-stars-awards-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Hockey Stars Awards 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: FIH Hockey Stars Awards 2016 were conferred on 23 February 2017 in which of the following city of India?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) New Delhi<br \/>\n(b) Chandigarh<br \/>\n(c) Jaipur<br \/>\n(d) Bengaluru<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (b)<br \/>\nRelated facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On 23 February 2017; FIH Hockey Stars Awards 2016 were conferred in Chandigarh.<\/li>\n<li>This was the for the first time in the history of Hockey that the ceremony was held to honour the best players, rising stars, goalkeepers, umpires and coaches.<\/li>\n<li>Belgium captain John-John Dohmen and Netherlands&#8217; Naomi Van were named as male and female International Hockey Federation&#8217;s (FIH) Player of the Year (2016) awards respectively.<\/li>\n<li>Hockey Stars 2016 female Goalkeeper of the Year: Won by Great Britain&#8217;s Olympic gold medallist Maddie Hinch.<\/li>\n<li>Hockey Stars 2016 male Goalkeeper of the Year: Won by Ireland&#8217;s David Harte. He won the award for the second year in a row.<\/li>\n<li>Male Rising Star of the Year (2016): Arthur Van Doren(Belgium)<\/li>\n<li>Female Rising Star of the Year (2016): Maria Granatto(Argentina)<\/li>\n<li>Coach of Year awards male: Danny Kerry(Great Britain)<\/li>\n<li>Coach of Year awards female: Karen Brown(Great Britain)<\/li>\n<li>Umpire of the Year award male: Christian Blasch(Germany)<\/li>\n<li>Umpire of the Year award female: Laurine Delforge(Belgium)<\/li>\n<li>Indian player who were nominated but not won the prize are:Harmanpreet Singh (Rising Star of the Year) and captain and goalkeeper PR Sreejesh (for Goalkeeper of the Year)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fih.ch\/events\/hockey-stars-awards\/hockey-stars-2016\/hockey-stars\/winners\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.fih.ch\/events\/hockey-stars-awards\/hockey-stars-2016\/hockey-stars\/winners\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: FIH Hockey Stars Awards 2016 were conferred on 23 February 2017 in which of the following city of India? (a) New Delhi (b) Chandigarh (c) Jaipur (d) Bengaluru Ans: (b) Related facts: On 23 February 2017; FIH Hockey Stars Awards 2016 were conferred in Chandigarh. This was the for the first time in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":22319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1147],"tags":[2617],"class_list":["post-22414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ah","tag-awards-honors-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}