Field hockey at the 1996 Summer Olympics

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The Olympic Field Hockey Tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia was held in the Morris Brown College Stadium, and ran from Saturday July 20 to Friday August 2, 1996.

Contents 1 Men's Tournament 1.1 Participating nations 1.2 Medal Winners 2 Women's Tournament 2.1 Participating nations 2.2 Medal Winners 3 See also

[edit] Men's Tournament

[edit] Participating nations

Seven nations automatically qualified for the 18th edition of the Men's Olympic Field Hockey Tournament:

• 1. Argentina – Winner of the 1995 Pan American Games
  2. Australia – Winner of the Oceania Cup
  3. Germany – Olympic Champion of the 1992 Summer Olympics
  4. Pakistan – Winner of the 1994 Men's Hockey World Cup
  5. South Africa – Winner of the 1995 All-Africa Games
  6. South Korea – Winner of the 1994 Asian Games
  7. United States – Host country

The five remaining spots were taken by the first five countries of the 1996 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Barcelona, Spain:

• 1. Netherlands
  2. India
  3. Great Britain
  4. Spain
  5. Malaysia

[edit] Medal Winners

GOLD	Netherlands Jacques Brinkman, Floris Jan Bovelander, Maurits Crucq, Marc Delissen, Jeroen Delmee, Taco van den Honert, Erik Jazet, Ronald Jansen, Leo Klein Gebbink, Bram Lomans, Teun de Nooijer, Wouter van Pelt, Stephan Veen, Guus Vogels, Tycho van Meer, and Remco van Wijk.
SILVER	Spain Jaime Amat, Pablo Amat, Javier Arnau, Jordi Arnau, Oscar Barrena, Ignacio Cobos, Juan Dinarés, Juan Escarré, Xavier Escudé, Juantxo García-Mauriño, Antonio González, Ramón Jufresa, Joaquín Malgosa, Victor Pujol, Ramón Sala, and Pablo Usoz.
BRONZE	Australia Mark Hager, Stephen Davies, Baeden Choppy, Lachlan Elmer, Stuart Carruthers, Grant Smith, Damon Diletti, Lachlan Dreher, Brendan Garard, Paul Gaudoin, Paul Lewis, Matthew Smith, Jay Stacy, Daniel Sproule, Ken Wark, Michael York.

[edit] Women's Tournament

[edit] Participating nations

Three nations automatically qualified for the 5th edition of the Women's Olympic Field Hockey Tournament:

• 1. Australia – Winner of the 1994 Women's Hockey World Cup
  2. Spain – Olympic Champion of the 1992 Summer Olympics
  3. United States – Host country

The five remaining spots were taken by the first five countries of the 1995 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Capetown, South Africa:

• 1. South Korea
  2. Great Britain
  3. Germany
  4. Argentina
  5. Netherlands

[edit] Medal Winners

GOLD	Australia Michelle Andrews, Alyson Annan, Louise Dobson, Renita Farrell, Juliet Haslam, Rechelle Hawkes, Clover Maitland, Karen Marsden, Jenny Morris, Nova Peris-Kneebone, Jackie Pereira, Katrina Powell, Lisa Powell, Danni Roche, Kate Starre, and Liane Tooth.
SILVER	South Korea Jae-Sook You, Jeong-Sook Lim, Seung-Shin Oh, Hyun-Jung Woo, Eun-Young Lee, Eun-Kyung Lee, Ji-Young Lee, Myung-Ok Kim, Chang-Sook Kwon, Soo-Hyun Kwon, Mi-Soon Choi, Young-Sun Jeon, Deok-San Jin, Eun-Jung Chang, Eun-Jung Cho, and Eun-Kyung Choi.
BRONZE	Netherlands Suzanne Plesman, Dillianne van den Boogaard, Florentine Steenberghe, Willemijn Duyster, Mijntje Donners, Fleur van de Kieft, Nicole Koolen, Jeannette Lewin, Wietske de Ruiter, Ellen Kuipers, Margje Teeuwen, Carole Thate, Jacqueline Toxopeus, Stella de Heij, Noor Holsboer, and Suzan van der Wielen.

[edit] See also

• Men's Hockey at the 1996 Summer Olympics (team squads)

Events at the 1996 Summer Olympics (Atlanta)
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Field hockey at the Summer Olympics
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