Field hockey at the Summer Olympics

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Field hockey (also referred to as simply hockey) was introduced at the 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 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 fixture at the next Olympic Games, the 1928 Games in Amsterdam. The first women's Olympic hockey competition was at the 1980 Moscow Games. Olympic field hockey games were first played on artificial turf at the 1976 Montreal Games.

1 Medalists
- 1.1 Men
- 1.2 Women
2 Medal table
3 See also
4 Footnotes

[edit] Medalists

[edit] Men

Year	Host	Final			Third Place Match
Year	Host	Gold Medal	Score	Silver Medal	Bronze Medal	Score	Fourth Place
1908 details	London	Great Britain (England)	8–1	Great Britain (Ireland)	Great Britain (Scotland) Great Britain (Wales)	^[1]
1912	Stockholm	No hockey tournament			No hockey tournament
1920 details	Antwerp	Great Britain (England)	^[2]	Denmark	Belgium	^[2]	France
1924	Paris	No hockey tournament			No 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 AET (4–1) PS	Pakistan
1952 details	Helsinki	India	6–1	Netherlands	Great Britain	2–1	Pakistan
1956 details	Melbourne	India	1–0	Pakistan	United 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 AET	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	USSR	2–1	Poland
1984 details	Los Angeles	Pakistan	2–1 AET	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 AET (5–4) PS	Korea	Australia	6–3	Pakistan
2004 details	Athens	Australia	2–1 AET	Netherlands	Germany	4–3 AET	Spain

[edit] Women

Year	Host	Final			Third Place Match
Year	Host	Gold Medal	Score	Silver Medal	Bronze Medal	Score	Fourth Place
1980 details	Moscow	Zimbabwe	^[5]	Czechoslovakia	USSR	^[5]	India
1984 details	Los Angeles	Netherlands	^[6]	West Germany	United States	(10–5) PS ^[7]	Australia
1988 details	Seoul	Australia	2–0	Korea	Netherlands	3–1	Great Bitain
1992 details	Barcelona	Spain	2–1 AET	Germany	Great Britain	4–3	Korea
1996 details	Atlanta	Australia	3–1	Korea	Netherlands	0–0 AET (4–3) PS	Great Britain
2000 details	Sydney	Australia	3–1	Argentina	Netherlands	2–0	Spain
2004 details	Athens	Germany	2–1	Netherlands	Argentina	1–0	China

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	India (IND)	8	1	2	11
2	Australia (AUS)	4	3	3	10
3	Netherlands (NED)	3	4	6	13
4	Pakistan (PAK)	3	3	2	8
5	Great Britain (GBR)	3	2	5	10
6	Germany (GER)	2	2	2	6
7	West Germany (FRG)	1	3	0	4
8	Spain (ESP)	1	2	1	4
9	New Zealand (NZL)	1	0	0	1
9	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	1	0	0	1
11	Korea (KOR)	0	3	0	3
12	Argentina (ARG)	0	1	1	2
13	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	1	0	1
	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
16	United States (USA)	0	0	2	2
16	USSR (URS)	0	0	2	2
18	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
18	United Team of Germany (EUA)	0	0	1	1

[edit] See also

List of Olympic medalists in field hockey

[edit] Footnotes

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

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