{"id":26740,"date":"2016-04-20T04:58:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T04:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=26740"},"modified":"2016-04-20T04:58:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T04:58:39","slug":"fih-promotes-durga-thakur-to-international-outdoor-umpire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=26740","title":{"rendered":"FIH promotes Durga Thakur to international outdoor umpire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-26075\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/hockey-stick-26.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"160\" alt=\"hockey stick 26\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/hockey-stick-26.jpg 260w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/hockey-stick-26-150x92.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>New Delhi:<\/strong> Hockey India national level umpire Durga Thakur has been promoted to an International Outdoor Umpire by the International Hockey Federation (FIH) on 18 April, 2016 after her performance at the recently held Hawkes Bay Cup in Hastings, New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Thakur started her career as an umpire from the 3rd Hockey India Sub-Junior Men &amp; Women National Championship (Finals) in Bhopal in 2013. A graduate of NSNIS in 2011, her first international assignment came in 2015 at the double 6-Nation Cup in Breda, Netherlands. <\/p>\n<p>A physical education teacher at Modern School, New Delhi, Thakur has represented her state Himachal Pradesh in the national championships in three sporting disciplines&mdash;handball, basketball and hockey. She was one of the umpires in the finals of the last National Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-26075\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/hockey-stick-26.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"160\" alt=\"hockey stick 26\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/hockey-stick-26.jpg 260w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/hockey-stick-26-150x92.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>New Delhi:<\/strong> Hockey India national level umpire Durga Thakur has been promoted to an International Outdoor Umpire by the International Hockey Federation (FIH) on 18 April, 2016 after her performance at the recently held Hawkes Bay Cup in Hastings, New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[16116,1027,738,3356,466,1292,16117],"class_list":["post-26740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hockey-hockey","tag-durga-thakur","tag-fih","tag-hockey-india","tag-hockey-news","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-international-hockey-federation","tag-international-outdoor-umpire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FIH promotes Durga Thakur to international outdoor umpire - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; 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