New Delhi, Apr 23 (UNI) India's Junior Men and Women hockey team on Monday left for the Youth Olympic Qualifiers to be held in Bangkok, Thailand.
The Youth Olympics 2018 is to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina and the five-day hockey tournament is a qualifying tournament for these games. This tournament will be played in Five A side format.
India's nine-member junior men's team is headed by Vivek Sagar Prasad, who was part of the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games team. India has been placed in pool A with Korea, Japan, China and Thailand and will begin their campaign against Thailand on April 25.