2016 Summer Olympics / Hockey

Hockey at the 2016 Olympics
information
venue	Rio de Janeiro
Competition venue	Olympic Hockey Center
Teams	24 (12 , 12 )
Nations	16
Athletes	390 (194 , 196 )
date	August 6-19, 2016
decisions	2
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Two hockey tournaments were held at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . For the first time, Great Britain won gold medals in the women's and Argentina in the men's. As in the previous Olympic tournaments, the game was initially played in two groups of six teams. Then the best eight teams - and no longer just the best four - determined the medal winners in the knockout system .

qualification

With the introduction of the Hockey World League in 2012, the World Hockey Federation decided on new qualification rules for World Championships and Olympic Games. The hosts and the five continental champions were qualified. The remaining six teams qualified via the semi-finals of the Hockey World League . If the host does not meet the performance criteria set by the FIH or the continental champions qualify via the semi-finals of the Hockey World League, the runners-up in the two semi-finals of the Hockey World League moved up; if the results were the same, the FIH ranking of the two teams decided.

Men's

date	competition	venue	qualified teams
October 2, 2009	host		Brazil 1
September 20 to October 2, 2014	Asian Games 2014	Incheon	India
3rd-14th June 2015	Hockey World League 2014/2015	Buenos Aires	Germany (1st) Canada (4th) 2 Spain (5th) 3 New Zealand (6th) 5th
June 20 to July 5, 2015		Brasschaat	Belgium (2nd) Great Britain (3rd) Ireland (5th) 4th
14.-25. July 2015	Pan American Games 2015	Toronto	Argentina
22.-30. August 2015	European Hockey Championship 2015	London	Netherlands
17.-23. October 2015	Oceania Cup 2015	Stratford	Australia
17th to 25th October 2015	African Cup of Nations 2015	Johannesburg	has waived 5

¹Host Brazil had to be at least 30th place in the FIH world rankings or 6th place in the Pan American Games in 2015, otherwise the next best placed team in the World League semi-finals 2014/15 will move up. This goal was achieved with 4th place at the Pan American Games.

² Successor for the Pan American champions Argentina, who also qualified with second place in the first WL semi-final

³ Successor for the European champions Netherlands, who also qualified third in the first WL semi-final

^4th Successor for the Oceania champion Australia, who was also qualified as the winner of the second WL semi-final

⁵  South Africa was athletically qualified as the African champions, but the South African NOC had decided not to participate. Instead, New Zealand moved up to sixth in the first WL semi-final, as Malaysia, sixth in the second WL semi-final, was worse positioned in the world rankings.

Ladies

date	competition	venue	qualified teams
October 2, 2009	host		Performance criteria for qualification not met 1
September 22nd to October 1st, 2014	Asian Games 2014	Incheon	South Korea
10-21 June 2015	Hockey World League 2014/2015	Valencia	China (2nd) Germany (3rd) Argentina (4th) 2 Spain (6th) 6th
June 20 to July 5, 2015		Brasschaat	Netherlands (1st) New Zealand (4th) 3 India (5th) 4 Japan (6th) 5th
13.-24. July 2015	Pan American Games 2015	Toronto	United States
22-29 August 2015	European Hockey Championship 2015	London	Great Britain
17.-23. October 2015	Oceania Cup 2015	Stratford	Australia
17th to 25th October 2015	African Cup of Nations 2015	Johannesburg	has renounced 6

¹Host Brazil had to be at least 40th in the FIH world rankings or 7th in the Pan American Games in 2015, otherwise the next best placed team in the 2014/15 World League semi-finals will move up. This goal was missed, so New Zealand moved up.

² Successor for the Asian champions South Korea, who finished 2nd in the second WL semifinals

³ Successor for the host Brazil

^4th Successor for the European champions England, who finished 1st in the first WL semi-final

⁵ Successor for the Oceania champion Australia, who finished 3rd in the second WL semifinals

^6th  South Africa was athletically qualified as the African champions, but the South African NOC decided not to participate. Instead, Spain moved up in sixth place in the first WL semi-final.

Stadion

Site plan of the Olympic sports facilities (original planning)

In the application documents, a new hockey stadium with two seats in Barra da Tijuca was planned, the main square with 10,000 seats, the side square with 5,000 seats. The Brazilian Organizing Committee proposed in October 2012 that the stadium be relocated to Deodoro , where the hockey games of the 2007 Pan American Games had also taken place. That would be beneficial for the development of hockey in Brazil. Work began in Deodoro in July 2014 and the stadium was inaugurated in November 2015. The main stadium has 8,000 seats and will be reduced to 2,500 after the games.

Rule changes

In March 2013, the World Hockey Federation decided on changes to the rules that will apply to the Olympic tournaments for the first time. In play-offs, there will be no more overtime, but immediately a shootout with five shooters. In March 2014 it was decided that the playing time would be 4 × 15 minutes. Until the rule change it had been 2 × 35 minutes.

number of players

In contrast to other international competitions, a team can only consist of 16 players. In addition, two players can be nominated as P-accredited players who move up to the team in the event of a player's injury and / or illness. According to this rule, the goalkeeper can also be replaced. He does not receive a P-accreditation if two field players have already been named as P-accredited.

Game system

As in the previous Olympic Games, the game is played in two groups of six teams each. The groups were divided in December 2015 according to their position in the world rankings (in brackets):

Men's				Ladies
Group A		Group B		Group A		Group B
Australia (1)		Netherlands (2)		Netherlands (1)		Argentina (2)
Great Britain (4)		Germany (3)		New Zealand (4)		Australia (3)
Belgium (5)		Argentina (6)		China (5)		Great Britain (6)
New Zealand (8)		India (7)		Germany (8)		USA (7)
Spain (11)		Ireland (12)		South Korea (9)		Japan (10)
Brazil (32)		Canada (14)		Spain (14)		India (13)

After the group games, the quarter-finals are played differently than in the previous games: the first in the group plays against the fourth in the other group and the second against the third. The fifth and sixth group are eliminated. The winners of the quarter-finals play the semi-finals, the winners for gold and silver, the losers for bronze.

The number of games per tournament has remained the same at 38, but the best four teams have one more game - eight instead of seven. For the first time since Tokyo 1964 , no complete ranking is shown. Instead, the nations are ranked according to their performance in the preliminary round.

Olympic tournament of men

Olympic hockey tournament 2016
Men's
Number of nations	12
Olympic champion	Argentina
venue	Rio de Janeiro
Stadion	Olympic Hockey Center in Deodoro
opening	August 6, 2016
Endgame	18th August 2016
← 2012 2020 →

The schedule for both the men's and women's tournaments was published on April 27, 2016.

referee

The following arbitrators have been nominated by the FIH :

• Christian Blasch
• Dekang Chen
• Murray Grime
• Marcin Grochal
• Adam Kearns
• Hong Zhen Lim
• Martin Madden
• German Montes de Oca
• Tim Pullman
• Marcelo Servetto
• Javed Shaikh
• Nathan Stagno
• Simon Taylor
• Coen van Bunge
• Paco Vazquez
• John Wright
• Andy Mair
• Deon Nel

Italics are video referees

Group stage

Group A

table

Pl.	nation	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Pt.
1.	Belgium	5	4th	0	1	21: 05	+16	12
2.	Spain	5	3	1	1	13: 06	+ 07	10
3.	Australia	5	3	0	2	13: 04	+ 09	09
4th	New Zealand	5	2	1	2	17: 08	+ 09	07th
5.	Great Britain	5	1	2	2	14:10	+ 04	05
6th	Brazil	5	0	0	5	01:46	−45	00

Participation in the quarter-finals

Results

August 6, 2016
12:30	Belgium	4: 1 (1: 1)	Great Britain
13:30	Australia	2: 1 (2: 0)	New Zealand
7:30 p.m.	Spain	7: 0 (1: 0)	Brazil
7th August 2016
17:00	Great Britain	2: 2 (2: 2)	New Zealand
7:30 p.m.	Brazil	0:12 (0: 5)	Belgium
20:30	Australia	0: 1 (0: 1)	Spain
August 9, 2016
10:00	New Zealand	2: 3 (2: 2)	Spain
18:00	Brazil	1: 9 (1: 3)	Great Britain
20:30	Belgium	1: 0 (1: 0)	Australia
August 10, 2016
7:30 p.m.	New Zealand	9: 0 (5: 0)	Brazil
20:30	Great Britain	1: 2 (0: 0)	Australia
11th August 2016
13:30	Spain	1: 3 (0: 3)	Belgium
August 12, 2016
17:00	Great Britain	1: 1 (1: 1)	Spain
18:00	Belgium	1: 3 (0: 0)	New Zealand
20:30	Australia	9: 0 (6: 0)	Brazil

Group B

table

Pl.	nation	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Pt.
1.	Germany	5	4th	1	0	17:10	+ 07	13
2.	Netherlands	5	3	1	1	18: 06	+12	10
3.	Argentina	5	2	2	1	14:12	+ 02	08th
4th	India	5	2	1	2	09: 09	± 00	07th
5.	Ireland	5	1	0	4th	10:16	- 06	03
6th	Canada	5	0	1	4th	07:22	−15	01

Participation in the quarter-finals

Results

August 6, 2016
10:00	Argentina	3: 3 (1: 1)	Netherlands
11:00	India	3: 2 (2: 0)	Ireland
18:00	Canada	2: 6 (1: 4)	Germany
7th August 2016
18:00	Netherlands	5: 0 (2: 0)	Ireland
August 8, 2016
11:00	Germany	2: 1 (1: 1)	India
12:30	Canada	1: 3 (0: 1)	Argentina
August 9, 2016
11:00	Argentina	1: 2 (0: 1)	India
12:30	Germany	3: 2 (1: 1)	Ireland
13:30	Netherlands	7: 0 (3: 0)	Canada
11th August 2016
10:00	Netherlands	2: 1 (0: 0)	India
11:00	Ireland	4: 2 (3: 0)	Canada
12:30	Argentina	4: 4 (2: 3)	Germany
August 12, 2016
12:30	India	2: 2 (0: 0)	Canada
13:30	Germany	2: 1 (1: 0)	Netherlands
7:30 p.m.	Ireland	2: 3 (1: 2)	Argentina

Quarter finals

August 14, 2016
10:00	Spain	1: 2 (0: 1)	Argentina
12:30	Belgium	3: 1 (1: 1)	India
18:00	Netherlands	4: 0 (2: 0)	Australia
20:30	Germany	3: 2 (0: 1)	New Zealand

Semifinals

16th August 2016
12:00	Argentina	5: 2 (3: 0)	Germany
17:00	Belgium	3: 1 (2: 1)	Netherlands

3rd place match

18th August 2016
12:00	Germany	1: 1 (0: 0) Shoot Out 4: 3	Netherlands

final

18th August 2016
17:00	Argentina	4: 2 (3: 1)	Belgium

Ranking list

rank	nation
1.	Argentina
2.	Belgium
3.	Germany
4th	Netherlands
5.	Spain
6th	Australia
7th	New Zealand
8th.	India
9.	Great Britain
10.	Ireland
11.	Canada
12.	Brazil

Medalist

Argentina	Belgium	Germany
Manuel Brunet Facundo Callioni Juan Gilardi Isidoro Ibarra 1 Pedro Ibarra Juan Martín López Luca Masso 1 Agustín Mazzilli Joaquin Menini Ignacio Ortíz Matias Paredes Gonzalo Peillat Lucas Rey Matias Rey Lucas Rossi Juan Saladino Lucas Vila Juan Manuel Vivaldi	Gauthier Boccard Tom Boon Thomas Briels Cedric Charlier Tanguy Cosyns Alexandre de Paeuw 1 Felix Denayer Sebastien Dockier John-John Dohmen Simon Gougnard Alexander Hendrickx 1 Loick Luypaert Emmanuel Stockbroekx Jerome Truyens Florent Van Aubel Arthur van Doren Elliot van Strydonck Vincent Vanasch	Linus Butt Oskar Deecke 1 Florian Fuchs Moritz Fürste Mats Grambusch Tom Grambusch Martin Häner Tobias Hauke Timm Herzbruch Nicolas Jacobi Oliver Korn 1 Mathias Müller Timur Oruz Christopher Rühr Moritz Trompertz Tobias Walter 2 Niklas Wellen Christopher Wesley Martin Zwicker

¹ P accreditation

² Substitute goalkeeper

Olympic tournament of women

Olympic hockey tournament 2016
Ladies
Number of nations	12
Olympic champion	Great Britain
venue	Rio de Janeiro
Stadion	Olympic Hockey Center in Deodoro
opening	August 6, 2016
Endgame	19th August 2016
← 2012 2020 →

referee

• Fanneke Alkemade
• Amy Baxter
• Amber Church
• Carolina de la Fuente
• Laurine Delforge
• Elena Eskina
• Kelly Hudson
• Soledad Iparraguirre
• Michelle Joubert
• Lin Miao
• Irine Presenqui
• Kylie Seymour
• Chieko Soma
• Melissa Trivic
• Sarah Wilson
• Carol Metchette
• Lisa Roach

Video referees are written in italics

Group stage

Group A

table

Pl.	nation	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Pt.
1.	Netherlands	5	4th	1	0	13: 01	+12	13
2.	New Zealand	5	3	1	1	11: 05	+ 06	10
3.	Germany	5	2	1	2	06: 06	± 00	07th
4th	Spain	5	2	0	3	06:12	- 06	06th
5.	People's Republic of China	5	1	2	2	03: 05	- 02nd	05
6th	South Korea	5	0	1	4th	03:13	−10	01

Participation in the quarter-finals

Results

7th August 2016
10:00	New Zealand	4: 1 (3: 0)	South Korea
12:30	Netherlands	5: 0 (4: 0)	Spain
13:30	People's Republic of China	1: 1 (1: 1)	Germany
August 8, 2016
13:30	New Zealand	1: 2 (1: 1)	Germany
17:00	Netherlands	4: 0 (2: 0)	South Korea
7:30 p.m.	Spain	0: 2 (0: 2)	People's Republic of China
August 10, 2016
10:00	Spain	1: 2 (0: 1)	New Zealand
12:30	Germany	2: 0 (0: 0)	South Korea
18:00	People's Republic of China	0: 1 (0: 0)	Netherlands
11th August 2016
13:30	Germany	1: 2 (1: 2)	Spain
August 12, 2016
10:00	South Korea	0-0 (0: 0)	People's Republic of China
11:00	New Zealand	1: 1 (0: 1)	Netherlands
August 13, 2016
12:30	Netherlands	2: 0 (1: 0)	Germany
17:00	South Korea	2: 3 (1: 0)	Spain
13:30	People's Republic of China	0: 3 (0: 1)	New Zealand

Group B

table

Pl.	nation	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Pt.
1.	Great Britain	5	5	0	0	12: 04	+ 08	15th
2.	United States	5	4th	0	1	14: 05	+ 09	12
3.	Australia	5	3	0	2	11: 05	+ 06	09
4th	Argentina	5	2	0	3	12: 06	+ 06	06th
5.	Japan	5	0	1	4th	03:16	−13	01
6th	India	5	0	1	4th	03:19	−16	01

Results

August 6, 2016
17:00	Argentina	1: 2 (0: 0)	United States
20:30	Great Britain	2: 1 (1: 0)	Australia
7th August 2016
11:00	Japan	2: 2 (2: 1)	India
August 8, 2016
10:00	Australia	1: 2 (0: 1)	United States
18:00	India	0: 3 (0: 2)	Great Britain
20:30	Argentina	4: 0 (2: 0)	Japan
August 10, 2016
11:00	India	1: 6 (0: 2)	Australia
13:30	Great Britain	3: 2 (2: 0)	Argentina
17:00	United States	6: 1 (3: 0)	Japan
11th August 2016
18:00	Australia	1: 0 (0: 0)	Argentina
7:30 p.m.	United States	3: 0 (1: 0)	India
20:30	Japan	0: 2 (0: 1)	Great Britain
August 13, 2016
10:00	Argentina	5: 0 (5: 0)	India
18:00	Great Britain	2: 1 (0: 0)	United States
7:30 p.m.	Australia	2: 0 (1: 0)	Japan

Quarter finals

15th August 2016
10:00	New Zealand	4: 2 (2: 0)	Australia
12:30	United States	1: 2 (0: 2)	Germany
18:00	Great Britain	3: 1 (3: 0)	Spain
20:30	Netherlands	3: 2 (2: 0)	Argentina

Semifinals

17th August 2016
12:00	Netherlands	1: 1 (1: 1) Shoot Out 4: 3	Germany
17:00	New Zealand	0: 3 (0: 1)	Great Britain

3rd place match

19th August 2016
12:00	Germany	2: 1 (0: 0)	New Zealand

final

19th August 2016
17:00	Netherlands	3: 3 (2: 2) Shoot Out 0: 2	Great Britain

Ranking list

rank	nation
1.	Great Britain
2.	Netherlands
3.	Germany
4th	New Zealand
5.	United States
6th	Australia
7th	Argentina
8th.	Spain
9.	China
10.	Japan
11.	South Korea
12.	India

Medalist

Great Britain	Netherlands	Germany
Giselle Ansley Sophie Bray Crista Cullen Alexandra Danson Maddie Hinch Joanna Leigh Hannah MacLeod Shona McCallin Lily Owsley Samantha Quek Helen Richardson-Walsh Kate Richardson-Walsh Susannah Townsend Georgina Twigg Laura Unsworth Eleanor Watton Hollie Webb Nicola White	Joyce Sombroek Xan de Waard Kitty van Male Laurien Leurink Willemijn Bos Marloes Keetels Carlien Dirkse van den Heuvel Kelly Jonker Maria Verschoor Lidewij Welten Caia van Maasakker Maartje Pracht Naomi van As Ellen Hoog Margot van Geffen Eva de Goede	Lisa Altenburg Yvonne Frank 1 Franzisca Hauke Hannah Krüger Nike Lorenz Marie Mävers Julia Müller Janne Müller-Wieland Pia-Sophie Oldhafer Selin Oruz Katharina Otte 2 Cécile Pieper Kristina Reynolds Anne Schröder Lisa Marie Schütze Annika Marie Sprink Charlotte Stapenhorst Jana Teschke

¹ P accreditation

² P accreditation, Katharina Otte replaced Annika Sprink in the match for bronze, who tore a cruciate ligament in the match against the Netherlands.

swell

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Web links

Commons : Hockey at the 2016 Summer Olympics  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Hockey. RIO 2016, accessed September 28, 2016 .