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Former Indian ladies’s hockey staff captain Rani Rampal introduced her retirement on Thursday, ending a glittering 16-year profession throughout which she grew to become an inspiration for her phenomenal rise from a small city in Haryana the place her father labored as a cart-puller.
The-29-year-old will log out as one in every of India’s most embellished hockey gamers after main the ladies’s staff to its best-ever end on the Olympics — a fourth place on the Tokyo Video games in 2021.
“It has been an impressive journey. I by no means thought I’ll play for therefore lengthy for India. I’ve seen a whole lot of poverty from childhood however focus was at all times to do one thing, symbolize the nation,” she informed reporters in a press convention.
A medical ahead, who made her worldwide debut in 2008 as a 14-year-old within the Olympic qualifiers that yr, Rani scored 205 targets in her 254 outings for India.
She was honoured with the Main Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award in 2020 and was additionally a recipient of the Padma Shri, the nation’s fourth highest civilian award, in the identical yr.
She was just lately roped in because the nationwide coach for sub-junior ladies gamers.
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