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 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

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Australia	5	3	2	0	23	5	+18	11
Great Britain	5	2	3	0	14	8	+6	9
Spain	5	2	2	1	8	10	−2	8
Pakistan	5	2	1	2	9	16	−7	7
Argentina	5	1	1	3	10	14	−4	4
South Africa	5	0	1	4	11	22	−11	1

Advanced to semifinals

Pool B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Netherlands	5	5	0	0	18	7	+11	15
Germany	5	3	1	1	14	11	+3	10
Belgium	5	2	1	2	8	7	+1	7
South Korea	5	2	0	3	9	8	+1	6
New Zealand	5	1	2	2	10	14	−4	5
India	5	0	0	5	6	18	−12	0

Advanced to semifinals

Medal round

Semi-finals		Gold medal match

9 August 2012

Australia	2
		11 August 2012
Germany	4
		Germany	2
9 August 2012
		Netherlands	1
Netherlands	9

Great Britain	2
		Bronze medal match

		11 August 2012

		Australia	3

		Great Britain	1

Women's tournament

Pool A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Netherlands	5	5	0	0	12	5	+7	15
Great Britain	5	3	0	2	14	7	+7	9
China	5	2	1	2	6	3	+3	7
South Korea	5	2	0	3	9	13	−4	6
Japan	5	1	1	3	4	9	−5	4
Belgium	5	0	2	3	2	10	−8	2

Advanced to semifinals

Pool B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Argentina	5	3	1	1	12	4	+8	10
New Zealand	5	3	1	1	9	5	+4	10
Australia	5	3	1	1	5	2	+3	10
Germany	5	2	1	2	6	7	−1	7
South Africa	5	1	0	4	9	14	−5	3
United States	5	1	0	4	4	13	−9	3

Advanced to semifinals

Medal round

Semi-finals		Gold medal match

8 August 2012

Netherlands (p.s.o.)	2 (3)
		10 August 2012
New Zealand	2 (1)
		Netherlands	2
8 August 2012
		Argentina	0
Argentina	2

Great Britain	1
		Bronze medal match

		10 August 2012

		New Zealand	1

		Great Britain	3

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
4	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 nations)		2	2	2	6

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team	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 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's team	Netherlands (NED) Marilyn Agliotti Merel de Blaeij Eva de Goede Maartje Goderie Ellen Hoog Kelly Jonker Kim Lammers Maartje Paumen Sophie Polkamp Joyce Sombroek Naomi van As Carlien Dirkse van den Heuvel Margot van Geffen Kitty van Male Caia van Maasakker Lidewij Welten	Argentina (ARG) Luciana Aymar Noel Barrionuevo Martina Cavallero Laura del Colle Silvina D'Elía Florencia Habif Rosario Luchetti Sofía Maccari Delfina Merino Maria Florencia Mutio Carla Rebecchi Macarena Rodríguez Rocío Sánchez Moccia Mariela Scarone Daniela Sruoga Maria Josefina Sruoga	Great Britain (GBR) Ashleigh Ball Laura Bartlett Crista Cullen Alex Danson Hannah Macleod Emily Maguire Anne Panter Helen Richardson Chloe Rogers Beth Storry Sarah Thomas Georgie Twigg Laura Unsworth Kate Walsh Sally Walton Nicola White

References

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

External links

Hockey at the 2012 Summer Olympics (London2012.com) at the UK Government Web Archive (archived 2013-02-28)
Hockey at the 2012 Summer Olympics at SR/Olympics
London Olympic Games - International Hockey Federation at the Wayback Machine (archived 2013-02-27)

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[QC-1] 1 2 "FIH release 2012 Olympic Qualification quotas". 13 November 2010. Retrieved 2011-08-07.

[telegraph-2] "Great Britain Hockey's London 2012 Olympic Games preparations and legacy". The Telegraph. 16 November 2010. Retrieved 2011-01-18.

[bbc-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.