Vandana Katariya Wiki, Height, Age, Caste, Boyfriend, Family, Biography & More – WikiBio

Vandana Katariya or Vandana Kataria is an Indian subject hockey participant who performs as a ahead participant within the Indian girls’s nationwide hockey crew. She got here into the limelight after scoring 5 targets for crew India on the 2013 Women’s Hockey Junior World Cup; India gained a bronze medal within the match.

Wiki/Biography

Vandana Katariya was born on Wednesday, 15 April 1992 (age 29 years; as of 2021) in Roshnabad, Haridwar, Uttar Pradesh (now, Uttarakhand, India). Her zodiac signal is Aries. Vandana was inclined in direction of sports activities from a really younger age. As a baby, she typically went away from her house (to cover it from her elders who didn't approve her of enjoying hockey) and practised her strikes with tree branches. Her father all the time supported her to play the sport (hockey).

Physical Appearance

Height : 5′ 2″

Weight : 51 Kg

Hair Colour: Brown

Eye Colour: Brown

Family

Vandana’s father, Nahar Singh, labored as a grasp technician in BHEL, Haridwar. He was as soon as a wrestler. Her father died three months earlier than the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Vandana couldn't attend her father’s funeral as she was on her coaching interval for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Not a lot is understood about her mom. She has an elder brother, Chandrashekhar Kataria.

Caste

Vandana Katariya belongs to a Dalit household.

Career

Vandana made her junior worldwide debut (crew) in hockey in 2006 and her senior worldwide debut (crew) got here within the yr 2010. In 2013, she was part of the Indian nationwide crew that gained a bronze medal on the 2013 Junior World Cup in Mönchengladbach, Germany. Katariya was India’s prime scorer within the match; she scored 5 targets in 4 video games. Vandana gained her a hundredth cap in the course of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, whereas she was enjoying in opposition to Canada.

Vandana Katariya throughout a hockey match

During the 2015 FIH Hockey World League, Vandana scored 11 targets (top-scorer) in round-2; with crew India profitable the match. In 2016, Katariya was made the skipper of the Indian girls’s hockey crew for the Test Series in opposition to Australia. She led the Indian girls’s hockey crew in Melbourne. In 2016, she grew to become part of the Indian girls’s hockey crew for the Rio Olympics.

Vandana Katariya throughout a hockey match

In 2018, the Indian girls’s hockey crew gained a silver medal on the Asian Champion Trophy; Vandana was made the participant of the match. In the identical yr, she was named within the 16-member squad for the World Cup.

Vandana Katariya with the Indian girls hockey crew

In 2020, Vandana grew to become the primary Indian girl to attain an Olympic hat-trick in hockey after qualifying for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The Olympics had been held in 2021 because of coronavirus outspread.

Vandana Katariya with the Indian hockey crew for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Controversy

In August 2021, two upper-caste males (Vijaypal and Sumit Chauhan) hurled abuses at Vandana’s household close to Katariya’s home in Haridwar’s Roshnabad village after India misplaced to Argentina within the semifinals within the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. They allegedly stated that the Indian crew misplaced as a result of it had “too many Dalit players” whereas stating Vandana’s members of the family. The males even burst crackers close to her house and danced in mock celebrations. Later, a case was registered in opposition to the 2 accused below related sections of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, and Section 504 (intentional insult with intent to impress breach of peace) of the Indian Penal Code at a neighborhood police station on the criticism of Vandana’s brother. 

One of the accused in Vandana’s case being arrested by the police

Medals

• Bronze at Junior World Cup in Mönchengladbach in 2013 (Team)

• Bronze at Asian Games in Incheon in 2014 (Team)

• Gold at Asia Cup in Gifu in 2014 (Team)

• Silver at Asian Games in Jakarta in 2018 (Team)

Autograph

Vandana Katariya signing SNS ProTour Hockey sticks for her followers

Favourities

• Food: Burger, Home-cooked meals

• Dessert: Chocolate Ice-cream

• Hockey Player(s): Mohammed Shahid, Luciana Aymar

Facts/Trivia

• Vandana loves spending time together with her household every time she is free.

• In an interview when requested about her favorite second from her hockey profession, Vandana stated,
  

  It must be after we gained the bronze medal on the World Cup in Germany. My father was known as by the media and he had tears in his eyes. So, making my father proud is the very best second of my hockey profession.”

• In 2014, Vandana obtained the Hockey India’s Player of the Year Award.

• While speaking about Vandana throughout an interview, the Indian girls’s hockey crew’s stop-gap coach Roelant Oltmans stated,
  

  In my ebook, Vandana is likely one of the prime forwards in world hockey. She is fast, can rating targets, can defend, and is enhancing on a regular basis.”

• As of 2021, Vandana has performed greater than 200 worldwide hockey matches for the senior Indian nationwide crew.

• Her present membership (as of 2021) is Railways.

• Katariya has acquired a tattoo inked on the again of her proper hand.
  

  Vandana Katariya’s tattoo