The International Hockey Federation (FIH), has promoted Hockey India national-level umpire Nepoleon Singh as the International Outdoor Umpire. The FIH took the decision yesterday after seeing his performance in the recently-concluded 12th South Asian Games 2016, held at Guwahati last month. Nepoleon started his career as an umpire from Manipur in the third Hockey India Junior Women National Championship 2013 held at Ranchi, Jharkhand.The 30 year-old Nepoleon is among those young umpires from India who have recently been upgraded to international-level outdoor umpire. With Nepoleon's promotion, a total of 14 Indian umpires (10 men, 4 women) are now in the category of international-level umpires.