Chennai, Sept. 13 -- It was a double delight for India as the men's and women's successfully defended their titles with contrastring wins, in the final of the Asian Junior Hockey tournament at Moqi, China on Sunday night and in the process booked their slots for the World juniors as the continental winners.
After the women's team hung on to the 17th minute opening strike and the lead given by Sanika Chandrakant Mane to edge out a fighting China 1-0, for a hat-trick of title, a couple of hours later, the Men's team made it a double delight, with a 4-1 thrashing of Korea to bag their record sixth title.
Today's victory also enabled both the men and women's team to book their berths in the World Junior tournament.
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