Everything about Field Hockey At The Summer Olympics totally explained
Field hockey (also referred to as simply
hockey) was introduced at the
Summer Olympic Games as a men's competition at the
1908 Games in London, with six teams, including four from the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Hockey was removed from the Olympics at the
1924 Paris Games due to the lack of an international structure. The
International Hockey Federation (FIH,
Fédération Internationale de Hockey) was founded in
Paris that year as a response to hockey's omission. Men's hockey became a permanent fixture at the next Olympic Games, the
1928 Games in
Amsterdam. For a long period of time the South Asian nations of
India and
Pakistan dominated the Olympics, with India winning gold in every olympics from 1928-1956, but recently various teams from around the world have seen success at the Olympics.
The first women's Olympic hockey competition was at the
1980 Moscow Games. Olympic field hockey games were first played on
artificial turf at the
1976 Montreal Games.
Medalists
Men
Women
Medal table
| 1 |
|
8 |
1 |
2 |
11 |
| 2 |
|
4 |
3 |
3 |
10 |
| 3 |
|
3 |
4 |
6 |
13 |
| 4 |
|
3 |
3 |
2 |
8 |
| 5 |
|
3 |
2 |
5 |
10 |
| 6 |
|
2 |
2 |
2 |
6 |
| 7 |
|
1 |
3 |
0 |
4 |
| 8 |
|
1 |
2 |
1 |
4 |
| 9 |
|
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| 11 |
|
0 |
3 |
0 |
3 |
| 12 |
|
0 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
| 13 |
|
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| 16 |
|
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
| |
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
| 18 |
|
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
| |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
Nations
There are only players counted, which participated in one game at least.
|
| Nations |
- |
- |
- |
3 |
- |
4 |
- |
9 |
3 |
11 |
13 |
12 |
|
| Field hockey players |
- |
- |
- |
66 |
- |
52 |
- |
137 |
39 |
161 |
187 |
144 |
|
(*) Four teams competed: England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.
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