India won Women's Asian Champions Trophy-2024

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India won Women's Asian Champions Trophy-2024

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• The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi today congratulated the Indian Hockey team on winning the Women's Asian Champions Trophy.

 Women's Asian Champions Trophy 2024:

•   The Women's Asian Champions Trophy was the eighth edition of the Women's Asian Champions Trophy, a biennial field hockey tournament where the six best Asian women's national teams compete.
•  It was organized by the Asian Hockey Federation,in Rajgir, India, from 11 to 20 November 2024.
• The Indian hockey team beat the People's Republic of China 1-0 in the final to win the Women's Asian Champions Trophy 2024 at the Rajgir Hockey Stadium in Bihar on Wednesday.
• Deepika  scored the winning goal for the Indian women's hockey team and finished as the tournament's top goal scorer with a tally of 11.
•  India has won the Asian Champions Trophy thrice, in 2016, 2023 and 2024.
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