Lausanne: Only three Indians are in the list of officials appointed by the International Hockey Federation (FIH) for competitions at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
While there is no Indian umpire in the women’s panel, Raghu Prasad and Javed Shaikh have been named in the men’s panel.
Among the three medical officers, Bibhu Nayak is from India.
“While performance was the primary selection criteria, the Officials Committee also looked, as a secondary consideration, at the geographic spread of the officials to ensure that all continents are represented,” the FIH said in a statement on Wednesday.
As a further demonstration of FIH's "Equally Amazing" policy, the technical officials will work across both genders' matches. While on-field umpires will be the same gender as the match, video umpires may be of the other gender as has been successfully implemented during the FIH Pro League this year.
Technical Delegates
- Men's Competition: Deckenbrock Christian, Germany
- Women's Competition: Standley Tammy, Australia
Umpires Managers
- De Klerk Marelize, South Africa
- Horgan Steve, United States of America
- Schellekens Philip, Netherlands
- Woolley Minka, Australia
Technical Officials
- Bennett Sarah, Zimbabwe
- Burt Josh, Australia
- Catton Steve, Great Britain
- Chan Alfred, Hong Kong
- Chee Lilian, Singapore
- Della Mattia Adrian, Argentina
- Fuerst Elisabeth, Austria
- Nazaret Magda, Poland
- Nishizawa Eiichiro, Japan
- Oti-Mensah Frank, Ghana
- Richardson Reyah, Trinidad and Tobago
- Tomlinson Jackie, New Zealand
- Warris Rogier, Netherland
- Zelkin Rene, United States of America
Umpires - Men's Panel
- Blasch Christian, Germany
- Goentgen Benjamin, Germany
- Grochal Marcin, Poland
- Kearns Adam, Australia
- Lim Hong Zhen, Singapore
- Madden Martin, Great Britain
- Mejzlik Jakub, Czech Republic
- Montes De Oca German, Argentina
- Prasad Raghu, India
- Shaikh Javed, India
- Taylor Simon, New Zealand
- Tomlinson David, New Zealand
- Van BUNGE Coen, Netherlands
- Wright Peter, South Africa
Umpires - Women's Panel
- Church Amber, New Zealand
- De La Fuente Carolina, Argentina
- Delforge Laurine, Belgium
- Giddens Maggie, United States of America
- Hudson Kelly, New Zealand
- Joubert Michelle, South Africa
- Liu Xiaoying, China
- Mcclean Ayanna, Trinidad and Tobago
- Meister Michelle, Germany
- Neumann Aleisha, Australia
- Presenqui Irene, Argentina
- Rostron Annelize, South Africa
- Wilson Sarah, Great Britain
- Yamada Emi, Japan
Medical Officers
- Gordon Leigh, South Africa
- Nayak Bibhu, India
- Rolle Udo, Germany
The 2020 Olympic hockey tournaments will be staged in Japan's capital city from 25 July to 7 August next year.
