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The Australia national field hockey team (nickname Kookaburras) are the Australia's national men's hockey team, and one of the nation's most successful top level sporting teams. They are the only Australian team in any sport to receive medals at the last four Summer Olympic Games (1992–2004), and have placed in the top four in every Olympics since 1980.
The Kookaburras' inability to win an Olympic gold medal despite their perennial competitiveness, including losing the 1976 final to New Zealand, led many in the Australian hockey community to speak of a "curse" afflicting the team,[1] finally broken in 2004 with the win in Athens.
[edit] Participations
- 1956 – Fifth place
- 1960 – Sixth place
- 1964 – Bronze
- 1968 – Silver
- 1972 – Fifth place
- 1976 – Silver
- 1984 – Fourth place
- 1988 – Fourth place
- 1992 – Silver
- 1996 – Bronze
- 2000 – Bronze
- 2004 – Gold
- 1971 – Eighth place
- 1975 – Fifth place
- 1978 – Third place
- 1982 – Third place
- 1986 – Champions
- 1990 – Third place
- 1994 – Third place
- 1998 – Fourth place
- 2002 – Runners-up
- 2006 – Runners-up
- 1978 – Runners-up
- 1980 – Third place
- 1981 – Runners-up
- 1982 – Runners-up
- 1983 – Champions
- 1984 – Champions
- 1985 – Champions
- 1986 – Runners-up
- 1987 – Third place
- 1988 – Third place
- 1989 – Champions
- 1990 – Champions
- 1991 – Fourth place
- 1992 – Runners-up
- 1993 – Champions
- 1994 – Fourth place
- 1995 – Runners-up
- 1996 – Sixth place
- 1997 – Runners-up
- 1998 – Third place
- 1999 – Champions
- 2000 – Fifth place
- 2001 – Runners-up
- 2002 – Fifth place
- 2003 – Runners-up
- 2005 – Champions
- 2006 – Fourth place
- 2007 – Runners-up
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