Field hockey at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Field hockey
at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
Field hockey; at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
Venue	Oi Hockey Stadium
Dates	24 July – 6 August 2021
No. of events	2
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Field hockey at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo took place from 24 July to 6 August 2021 at the Oi Seaside Park. Twenty-four teams (twelve each for men and women) competed in the tournament.^[1]

It was originally scheduled to be held in 2020, but on 24 March 2020, the Olympics were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[2]

Schedule[]

Legend
G	Group stage	¼	Quarter-finals	½	Semi-finals	B	Bronze medal match	F	Gold medal match

^[3]^[4]

Date Event	Sat 24	Sun 25	Mon 26	Tue 27	Wed 28	Thu 29	Fri 30	Sat 31	Sun 1	Mon 2	Tue 3	Wed 4	Thu 5		Fri 6
Men	G	G	G	G	G	G	G		¼		½		B	F
Women	G	G	G		G	G	G	G		¼		½			B	F

Qualification[]

Each of the Continental Champions from five confederations received an automatic berth. Japan as the host nation qualified automatically. In addition, the remaining six nations were to be determined by an olympic qualification event. As Japan emerged as Asian champion in both men's and women's events, a seventh berth was made available in each qualification event. Although the qualification was unaffected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Men[]

Event	Dates	Location(s)	Quota	Qualifier(s)
Host nation	N/A	N/A	1	Japan
2018 Asian Games	19 August – 1 September 2018	Jakarta	–	–^A
2019 Pan American Games	30 July – 10 August 2019	Lima	1	Argentina
2019 African Olympic Qualifier	12 – 18 August 2019	Stellenbosch	1	South Africa
2019 EuroHockey Championship	16 – 24 August 2019	Antwerp	1	Belgium
2019 Oceania Cup	5 – 8 September 2019	Rockhampton	1	Australia
2019 FIH Olympic Qualifiers	25 October – 3 November 2019	Various	7	Canada Germany Great Britain India Netherlands New Zealand Spain
Total			12

^A – Japan qualified both as the hosts and the continental champions, therefore that quota is added to the FIH Olympic Qualifiers rather than going to the runners-up of the tournament.^[1]

Women[]

Event	Dates	Location(s)	Quota	Qualifier(s)
Host nation	N/A	N/A	1	Japan
2018 Asian Games	19 August – 1 September 2018	Jakarta	–	–¹
2019 Pan American Games	29 July – 9 August 2019	Lima	1	Argentina
2019 African Olympic Qualifier	12 – 18 August 2019	Stellenbosch	1	South Africa
2019 EuroHockey Championship	17 – 25 August 2019	Antwerp	1	Netherlands
2019 Oceania Cup	5 – 8 September 2019	Rockhampton	1	New Zealand
2019 FIH Olympic Qualifiers	25 October – 3 November 2019	Various	7	Australia China Germany Great Britain India Ireland Spain
Total			12

^1 – Japan qualified both as the hosts and the continental champions, therefore that quota is added to the FIH Olympic Qualifiers rather than going to the runners-up of the tournament.^[1]

Medal summary[]

Medal table[]


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Belgium (BEL)	1	0	0	1
1	Netherlands (NED)	1	0	0	1
3	Argentina (ARG)	0	1	0	1
3	Australia (AUS)	0	1	0	1
5	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
5	India (IND)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 nations)		2	2	2	6

Medalists[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	Belgium Gauthier Boccard Tom Boon Thomas Briels Cédric Charlier Félix Denayer Nicolas De Kerpel Arthur De Sloover Sébastien Dockier John-John Dohmen Simon Gougnard Alexander Hendrickx Antoine Kina Loïck Luypaert Augustin Meurmans Victor Wegnez Vincent Vanasch Florent Van Aubel Arthur Van Doren	Australia Daniel Beale Joshua Beltz Tim Brand Andrew Charter Tom Craig Matt Dawson Blake Govers Jeremy Hayward Tim Howard Dylan Martin Trent Mitton Eddie Ockenden Flynn Ogilvie Lachlan Sharp Joshua Simmonds Jacob Whetton Tom Wickham Aran Zalewski	India Surender Kumar Varun Kumar Birendra Lakra Vivek Prasad Dilpreet Singh Gurjant Singh Harmanpreet Singh Hardik Singh Mandeep Singh Manpreet Singh Rupinder Pal Singh Shamsher Singh Simranjeet Singh Nilakanta Sharma P. R. Sreejesh Sumit Lalit Upadhyay Amit Rohidas
Women details	Netherlands Felice Albers Eva de Goede Xan de Waard Marloes Keetels Josine Koning Sanne Koolen Laurien Leurink Frédérique Matla Laura Nunnink Malou Pheninckx Pien Sanders Lauren Stam Margot van Geffen Caia van Maasakker Maria Verschoor Lidewij Welten	Argentina Agustina Albertario Agostina Alonso Noel Barrionuevo Valentina Costa Biondi Emilia Forcherio Agustina Gorzelany María José Granatto Victoria Granatto Julieta Jankunas Sofía Maccari Delfina Merino Valentina Raposo Rocío Sánchez Moccia Micaela Retegui Victoria Sauze Belén Succi Sofía Toccalino Eugenia Trinchinetti	Great Britain Giselle Ansley Grace Balsdon Fiona Crackles Maddie Hinch Sarah Jones Hannah Martin Shona McCallin Lily Owsley Hollie Pearne-Webb Isabelle Petter Ellie Rayer Sarah Robertson Anna Toman Susannah Townsend Laura Unsworth Leah Wilkinson

Men's tournament[]

The competition consisted of two stages; a group stage followed by a knockout stage.

Group stage[]

Teams were divided into two groups of six nations, playing every team in their group once. Three points were awarded for a victory, one for a draw. The top four teams per group will qualify to the quarter-finals.

Group A[]

Pos	Team v t	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Australia	5	4	1	0	22	9	+13	13	Quarter-finals
2	India	5	4	0	1	15	13	+2	12
3	Argentina	5	2	1	2	10	11	−1	7
4	Spain	5	1	2	2	9	10	−1	5
5	New Zealand	5	1	1	3	11	16	−5	4
6	Japan (H)	5	0	1	4	10	18	−8	1

Source: Tokyo 2020 and FIH
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) matches won; 3) goal difference; 4) goals for; 5) head-to-head result; 6) field goals scored.
(H) Host

Group B[]

Pos	Team v t	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Belgium	5	4	1	0	26	9	+17	13	Quarter-finals
2	Germany	5	3	0	2	19	10	+9	9
3	Great Britain	5	2	2	1	11	11	0	8
4	Netherlands	5	2	1	2	13	13	0	7
5	South Africa	5	1	1	3	16	24	−8	4
6	Canada	5	0	1	4	9	27	−18	1

Source: Tokyo 2020 and FIH
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) matches won; 3) goal difference; 4) goals for; 5) head-to-head result; 6) field goals scored.

Knockout stage[]

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Gold medal match

1 August

Australia (p.s.o.)	2 (3)
		3 August
Netherlands	2 (0)
		Australia	3
1 August
		Germany	1
Germany	3
				5 August
Argentina	1
				Australia	1 (2)
1 August
				Belgium (p.s.o.)	1 (3)
India	3
		3 August
Great Britain	1
		India	2
1 August
		Belgium	5	Bronze medal match
Belgium	3
				5 August
Spain	1
				Germany	4

				India	5

Final standings[]

As per statistical convention in field hockey, matches decided in regular time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.

Pos	Team v t	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
1	Belgium	8	6	2	0	35	13	+22	20	Gold Medal
2	Australia	8	5	3	0	28	13	+15	18	Silver Medal
3	India	8	6	0	2	25	23	+2	18	Bronze Medal
4	Germany	8	4	0	4	27	19	+8	12	Fourth place

5	Great Britain	6	2	2	2	12	14	−2	8	Eliminated in quarter-finals
6	Netherlands	6	2	2	2	15	15	0	8
7	Argentina	6	2	1	3	11	14	−3	7
8	Spain	6	1	2	3	10	13	−3	5

9	New Zealand	5	1	1	3	11	16	−5	4	Eliminated in group stage
10	South Africa	5	1	1	3	16	24	−8	4
11	Japan (H)	5	0	1	4	10	18	−8	1
12	Canada	5	0	1	4	9	27	−18	1

Source: Tokyo2020
(H) Host

Women's tournament[]

The competition consisted of two stages; a group stage followed by a knockout stage.

Group stage[]

Teams were divided into two groups of six nations, playing every team in their group once. Three points are awarded for a victory, one for a draw. The top four teams per group will qualify for the quarter-finals.

Group A[]

Pos	Team v t	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Netherlands	5	5	0	18	2	+16	15	Quarterfinals
2	Germany	5	4	1	13	7	+6	12
3	Great Britain	5	3	2	11	5	+6	9
4	India	5	2	3	7	14	−7	6
5	Ireland	5	1	4	4	11	−7	3
6	South Africa	5	0	5	5	19	−14	0

Source: Tokyo 2020 and FIH
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) matches won; 3) goal difference; 4) goals for; 5) head-to-head result; 6) field goals scored.

Group B[]

Pos	Team v t	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Australia	5	5	0	13	1	+12	15	Quarterfinals
2	Spain	5	3	2	9	8	+1	9
3	Argentina	5	3	2	8	8	0	9
4	New Zealand	5	2	3	8	7	+1	6
5	China	5	2	3	9	16	−7	6
6	Japan (H)	5	0	5	6	13	−7	0

Source: Tokyo 2020 and FIH
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) matches won; 3) goal difference; 4) goals for; 5) head-to-head result; 6) field goals scored.
(H) Host

Knockout stage[]

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Gold medal match

2 August

Netherlands	3
		4 August
New Zealand	0
		Netherlands	5
2 August
		Great Britain	1
Spain	2 (0)
				6 August
Great Britain (p.s.o.)	2 (2)
				Netherlands	3
2 August
				Argentina	1
Germany	0
		4 August
Argentina	3
		Argentina	2
2 August
		India	1	Bronze medal match
Australia	0
				6 August
India	1
				Great Britain	4

				India	3

Final standings[]

As per statistical convention in field hockey, matches decided in regular time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.

Pos	Team v t	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
1	Netherlands	8	8	0	0	29	4	+25	24	Gold Medal
2	Argentina	8	5	0	3	14	12	+2	15	Silver Medal
3	Great Britain	8	4	1	3	18	15	+3	13	Bronze Medal
4	India	8	3	0	5	12	20	−8	9	Fourth place

5	Australia	6	5	0	1	13	2	+11	15	Eliminated in quarter-finals
6	Germany	6	4	0	2	13	10	+3	12
7	Spain	6	3	1	2	11	10	+1	10
8	New Zealand	6	2	0	4	8	10	−2	6

9	China	5	2	0	3	9	16	−7	6	Eliminated in group stage
10	Ireland	5	1	0	4	4	11	−7	3
11	Japan (H)	5	0	0	5	6	13	−7	0
12	South Africa	5	0	0	5	5	19	−14	0

Source: Tokyo2020
(H) Host

History of Field Hockey[]

Variations of the gamer can be seen throughout time, but the first time the world saw the game we see today was in the mid 1800's. Field Hockey was first developed in England and in British Isles. The first field hockey team was the Blackheath Football and Hockey Club. The sport then spread around the world adding new rules and concepts to the game as time went on. Field Hockey has now become the second largest team sport in the entire world (just behind soccer). It is played in over 100 countries and is popular in Canada and England. Field Hockey has been a sport in the Olympic Games since 1908 in London. The women's field hockey event was introduced into the Olympics at Moscow in 1980.

Rules of the Game[]

Field Hockey is played on a field that is 100 yards long and 60 yards wide with two goals at each end of the field. Each player is equipped with a stick that is rounded at the end and the objective is to get the rubber ball into the other team's net. Equipment such as chest pads, knee pads, a helmet, and gloves are worn by each player for their own protection. Each team has 11 players with positions such as defenders, forwards, midfielders, and a goalkeeper. The goalkeeper's objective is to keep the ball out of their goal and they are the only players on the field allowed to use any part of their body. Unlike soccer there is no offsides in Field Hockey allowing players to travel anywhere on the field.

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c "Tokyo 2020 – FIH Hockey Qualification System" (PDF). FIH. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
^ "Joint Statement from the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
^ "Schedule – Hockey Tokyo 2020 Olympics". Olympian Database. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
^ "Hockey Competition Schedule". Tokyo 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2020.

External links[]

Results book

[Qual-1] "Tokyo 2020 – FIH Hockey Qualification System" (PDF). FIH. Retrieved 2 May 2018.

[2] "Joint Statement from the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 24 March 2020.

[3] "Schedule – Hockey Tokyo 2020 Olympics". Olympian Database. Retrieved 7 March 2020.

[4] "Hockey Competition Schedule". Tokyo 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2020.

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Field hockey at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Contents

Schedule[]

Qualification[]

Men[]

Women[]

Medal summary[]

Medal table[]

Medalists[]

Men's tournament[]

Group stage[]

Group A[]

Group B[]

Knockout stage[]

Final standings[]

Women's tournament[]

Group stage[]

Group A[]

Group B[]

Knockout stage[]

Final standings[]

History of Field Hockey[]

Rules of the Game[]

See also[]

References[]

External links[]