Field hockey at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Field hockey at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue	Riverbank Arena
Dates	29 July – 11 August

Field hockey at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Tournament
men  women
Squads
men  women

Field hockey at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place from 29 July to 11 August at the Riverbank Arena within the Olympic Park.

On 13 November 2010 the International Hockey Federation (FIH) decided to allocate 12 teams for each men and women events respectively.^[1]

Germany won the men's tournament for the fourth time, and the women's tournament was won by the Netherlands — their third Olympic women's hockey title.

Competition schedule

P

Preliminaries

½

Semifinals

F

Final

Event↓/Date →	Sun 29	Mon 30	Tue 31	Wed 1	Thu 2	Fri 3	Sat 4	Sun 5	Mon 6	Tue 7	Wed 8	Thu 9	Fri 10	Sat 11
Men		P		P		P		P		P		½		F
Women	P		P		P		P		P		½		F

Qualifiers

Each of the continental champions received a berth alongside the host, Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales compete separately in most competitions, but send a combined team to the Olympics and selected friendly tournaments, which is managed by England Hockey),^[2][3] while another three spots were decided in qualifying tournaments.

The Riverbank Arena hosted the field hockey tournaments.

For the men's tournament, Europe received two extra quota places, and Oceania one extra. While for the women's, Asia, Oceania and Europe each received one extra quota place. All were based on FIH world rankings.^[1]

However, South Africa as African champion for both tournaments gave up the automatic berth on the premise that they should play a qualifier having deemed the African tournament as sub-standard even though they won the African qualifier tournament. Instead they played in the men's and women's Olympic qualification tournament and made the cut. Their automatic berth was awarded to Spain in the men's tournament and Argentina in the women's.^[4][5][6]

Men's tournament

Pool A	Pool B
Australia  Great Britain  Spain  Pakistan  Argentina  South Africa	Germany  Netherlands  South Korea  New Zealand  India  Belgium

Women's tournament

Pool A	Pool B
Netherlands  Great Britain  China  South Korea  Japan  Belgium	Argentina  Germany  New Zealand  Australia  United States  South Africa

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Netherlands	1	1	0	2
2	Germany	1	0	0	1
3	Argentina	0	1	0	1
4	Australia	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
Total		2	2	2	6

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Germany (GER) Maximilian Müller Martin Häner Oskar Deecke Christopher Wesley Moritz Fürste Tobias Hauke Jan-Philipp Rabente Benjamin Weß Timo Weß Oliver Korn Christopher Zeller Max Weinhold Matthias Witthaus Florian Fuchs Philipp Zeller Thilo Stralkowski	Netherlands (NED) Jaap Stockmann Tim Jenniskens Klaas Vermeulen Marcel Balkestein Wouter Jolie Roderick Weusthof Robbert Kempermann Teun de Nooijer Sander Baart Floris Evers Bob de Voogd Sander de Wijn Rogier Hofman Robert van der Horst Billy Bakker Valentin Verga Mink van der Weerden	Australia (AUS) Mark Knowles Jamie Dwyer Liam de Young Simon Orchard Glenn Turner Chris Ciriello Matthew Butturini Russell Ford Eddie Ockenden Joel Carroll Matthew Gohdes Tim Deavin Matthew Swann Nathan Burgers Kieran Govers Fergus Kavanagh
Women	Netherlands (NED) Kitty van Male Carlien Dirkse van den Heuvel Kelly Jonker Maartje Goderie Lidewij Welten Maartje Paumen Naomi van As Ellen Hoog Sophie Polkamp Joyce Sombroek Kim Lammers Eva de Goede Marilyn Agliotti Merel de Blaeij Margot van Geffen Caia van Maasakker	Argentina (ARG) Laura del Colle Rosario Luchetti Macarena Rodríguez Luciana Aymar Carla Rebecchi Delfina Merino Martina Cavallero Florencia Habif Rocío Sánchez Moccia Daniela Sruoga Sofía Maccari Mariela Scarone Silvina D'Elía Noel Barrionuevo Josefina Sruoga Florencia Mutio	Great Britain (GBR) Beth Storry Emile Maguire Laura Unsworth Crista Cullen Hannah MacLeod Anne Panter Helen Richardson Kate Walsh Chloe Rogers Laura Bartlett Alex Danson Georgie Twigg Ashleigh Ball Sally Walton Nicola White Sarah Thomas

References

1. "FIH release 2012 Olympic Qualification quotas". 13 November 2010. Retrieved 2011-08-07.
2. "Great Britain Hockey's London 2012 Olympic Games preparations and legacy". The Telegraph. 16 November 2010. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
3. "Great Britain hockey on course for 2012 – Mantell". BBC Sport. 10 July 2010. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
4. "Agony for SA hockey men". Supersport.com. 3 December 2011. Retrieved 2011-12-14.
5. "Argentina makes Olympics after S.Africa withdrawal". The China Post. Retrieved 2011-11-16.
6. "Las Leonas estarán en Londres 2012". CAH. Retrieved 2011-11-14.

External links

• Field hockey at London2012.com
• Official FIH website

Coordinates: 51°32′56″N 0°01′12″W / 51.5490°N 0.0201°W