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Field hockey at the Summer Olympics

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Field hockey at the Summer Olympics
Governing bodyFIH
Events2 (men: 1; women: 1)
Games
189619001904190819121920
192419281932193619481952
195619601964196819721976
198019841988199219962000
200420082012
Medalists

Field hockey was introduced at the Summer Olympic Games as a men's competition at the 1908 Games in London, with six teams, including four from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Hockey was removed from the Olympics at the 1924 Paris Games due to the lack of an international sporting structure. The International Hockey Federation (FIH, Fédération Internationale de Hockey) was founded in Paris that year as a response to hockey's omission. Men's hockey became a permanent feature at the next Olympic Games, the 1928 Games in Amsterdam.

For a long period of time, the South Asian countries of India and Pakistan dominated the Olympics, with either India or Pakistan winning the men's gold medal in every Olympics from 1928 to 1968. Note that in the Olympic Games before 1948, British India included Pakistan. Pakistan and India gained independence in 1947.

Since 1968, various teams from around the world have seen gold-medal success at the Olympics. However, the inclusion of AstroTurf since 1976 is noted to have probably contributed to this decline in Indian and Pakistani medals, since the countries that were once dominant on grass have failed to adapt to Astroturf play. Since 1968, several countries in the Southern Hemisphere have won various medals in men's and women's field hockey, including Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, and Zimbabwe. A leading group of teams from the Northern Hemisphere has come from the Netherlands and from Germany.

The first women's Olympic hockey competition was held at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Olympic field hockey games were first played on artificial turf at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games.

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[edit] Medalists

[edit] Men

YearHostFinalThird Place Match
Gold MedalScoreSilver MedalBronze MedalScoreFourth Place
1908
Details
London
Great Britain

(England)
8-1
Great Britain
(Ireland)

Great Britain
(Scotland)

Great Britain
(Wales)
[1]
1912StockholmNo hockey tournamentNo hockey tournament
1920
Details
Antwerp
Great Britain
[2]
Denmark

Belgium
[2]
France
1924ParisNo hockey tournamentNo hockey tournament
1928
Details
Amsterdam
India
3-0
Netherlands

Germany
3-0
Belgium
1932
Details
Los Angeles
India
[3]
Japan

United States
[3]
1936
Details
Berlin
India
8-1
Germany

Netherlands
4-3
France
1948
Details
London
India
4-0
Great Britain

Netherlands
1-1
after extra time
(4-1)
Penalty strokes

Pakistan
1952
Details
Helsinki
India
6-1
Netherlands

Great Britain
2-1
Pakistan
1956
Details
Melbourne
India
1-0
Pakistan

Unified Team of Germany[4]
3-1
Great Britain
1960
Details
Rome
Pakistan
1-0
India

Spain
2-1
Great Britain
1964
Details
Tokyo
India
1-0
Pakistan

Australia
3-2
after extra time

Spain
1968
Details
Mexico City
Pakistan
2-1
Australia

India
2-1
West Germany
1972
Details
Munich
West Germany
1-0
Pakistan

India
2-1
Netherlands
1976
Details
Montreal
New Zealand
1-0
Australia

Pakistan
3-2
Netherlands
1980
Details
Moscow
India
4-3
Spain

Soviet Union
2-1
Poland
1984
Details
Los Angeles
Pakistan
2-1
after extra time

West Germany

Great Britain
3-2
Australia
1988
Details
Seoul
Great Britain
3-1
West Germany

Netherlands
2-1
Australia
1992
Details
Barcelona
Germany
2-1
Australia

Pakistan
4-3
Netherlands
1996
Details
Atlanta
Netherlands
3-1
Spain

Australia
3-2
Germany
2000
Details
Sydney
Netherlands
3-3
after extra time
(5-4)
Penalty strokes

Korea

Australia
6-3
Pakistan
2004
Details
Athens
Australia
2-1
after extra time

Netherlands

Germany
4-3
after extra time

Spain
2008
Details
Beijing
Germany
1-0
Spain

Australia
6-2
Netherlands
2012
Details
London--

[edit] Women

YearHostFinalThird Place Match
Gold MedalScoreSilver MedalBronze MedalScoreFourth Place
1980
Details
Moscow
Zimbabwe
[5]
Czechoslovakia

Soviet Union
[5]
India
1984
Details
Los Angeles
Netherlands
[6]
West Germany

United States
(10-5)
Penalty strokes [7]

Australia
1988
Details
Seoul
Australia
2-0
Korea

Netherlands
3-1
Great Britain
1992
Details
Barcelona
Spain
2-1
after extra time

Germany

Great Britain
4-3
Korea
1996
Details
Atlanta
Australia
3-1
Korea

Netherlands
0-0
after extra time
(4-3)
Penalty strokes

Great Britain
2000
Details
Sydney
Australia
3-1
Argentina

Netherlands
2-0
Spain
2004
Details
Athens
Germany
2-1
Netherlands

Argentina
1-0
China
2008
Details
Beijing
Netherlands
2-0
China

Argentina
3-1
Germany
2012
Details
London--

[edit] Medal table

The Indian Hockey team at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, later going on to defeat Germany 8-1 in the final
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 India (IND)81211
2 Netherlands (NED)44614
3 Australia (AUS)43411
4 Pakistan (PAK)3328
5 Great Britain (GBR)32510
6 Germany (GER)3227
7 Spain (ESP)1315
8 West Germany (FRG)1304
9 New Zealand (NZL)1001
Zimbabwe (ZIM)1001
11 South Korea (KOR)0303
12 Argentina (ARG)0123
13 China (CHN)0101
Czechoslovakia (TCH)0101
Denmark (DEN)0101
Japan (JPN)0101
17 Soviet Union (URS)0022
United States (USA)0022
19 Belgium (BEL)0011
Germany (EUA)0011
Total29293088

[edit] Nations

Only players who participated in at least one game are counted.

Nation9600040812202428323648525660646872768084889296000408Years
Afghanistan (AFG)1214X3
Argentina (ARG)12XXXXXXXX9
Australia (AUS)XXXXXXXXXXXXX13
Austria (AUT)1612113
Belgium (BEL)1418121311XXXXXXX12
Canada (CAN)XXXXXX6
China (CHN)X1
Cuba (CUB)X1
Denmark (DEN)12131316X5
Egypt (EGY)XX2
Finland (FIN)111
France (FRA)111115181413XXX9
Germany (GER)11192215XXXXXXXXX13
East Germany (GDR)X1
West Germany (FRG)XXXX4
Great Britain (GBR)44*151213XXXXXXXXXXXX16
Hong Kong (HKG)X1
Hungary (HUN)151
India (IND)1415192014XXXXXXXXXXXXX13
Italy (ITA)11X2
Japan (JPN)1111XXX5
South Korea (KOR)XXXXX5
Kenya (KEN)XXXXXXX7
Malaysia (MAS)XXXXXXXXX9
Mexico (MEX)XX2
Netherlands (NED)11121211XXXXXXXXXXXX13
New Zealand (NZL)XXXXXXXXXX10
Pakistan (PAK)1916XXXXXXXXXXXX14
Poland (POL)11XXXX5
Rhodesia (RHO)X1
Spain (ESP)1514XXXXXXXXXXXXX15
Singapore (SIN)X1
Soviet Union (URS)XX2
South Africa (RSA)XXX3
Switzerland (SUI)16131511X5
Tanzania (TAN)X1
Unified Team (EUN)X1
Uganda (UGA)X4
United States (USA)131414XXX6
Zimbabwe (ZIM)X1
Nations---3-4-93111312
Field hockey players---66-52-13739161187144
Year960004081220242832364852566064687276808488929600040821

* Four teams competed: England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.

[edit] See also

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ There was no bronze medal match for the 1908 Games in London.
  2. ^ a b The 1920 tournament was played in a round-robin format, so there were no gold medal or bronze medal matches.
  3. ^ a b Only three teams participated in the 1932 tournament, so they played a round-robin format.
  4. ^ The Unified Team of Germany was the combined team from West Germany and East Germany that competed together at the Olympic Games from 1956 to 1964. Then each country sent independent teams from 1968 to 1988.
  5. ^ a b Round-robin format play in 1980 for women's tournament
  6. ^ Round Robin format use in 1984 women's tournament
  7. ^ The final standings show both the United States and Australia were tied in the points and also same margin in goal difference (both having scored 9 goals and conceded 7 goals), a penalty stroke competition was played to decide the bronze medal winner, with the United States winning.