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Field hockey at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

The women's field hockey tournament at the 2012 Summer Olympics was the 9th edition of the field hockey event for women at the Summer Olympic Games. It was held over a thirteen-day period beginning on 29 July, and culminating with the medal finals on 10 August. All games were played at the Riverbank Arena within the Olympic Park in London, United Kingdom.

Women's field hockey
at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Tournament details
Host countryUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
Dates29 July – 10 August
Teams12
VenueRiverbank Arena
Final positions
Champions Netherlands (3rd title)
Runner-up Argentina
Third place Great Britain
Tournament statistics
Matches played38
Goals scored118 (3.11 per match)
Top scorer(s)United Kingdom Crista Cullen
United Kingdom Alex Danson (5 goals)
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The stadium before the USA vs New Zealand game.

Defending champions the Netherlands won the gold medal for the third time after defeating Argentina 2–0 in the final. Great Britain won the bronze medal by defeating New Zealand 3–1.

Competition format

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The twelve teams in the tournament were divided into two pools of six, with each team initially playing round-robin games within their pool. Following the completion of the round-robin, the top two teams from each pool advanced to the semi-finals. All other teams played classification matches to determine the final tournament rankings. The two semi-final winners met for the gold medal match, while the semi-final losers played in the bronze medal match.

Qualification

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Each of the continental champions from five federations and the hosts Britain received an automatic berth. The European, Asian and Oceanian federations received one extra quota based upon the FIH World Rankings at the completion of the 2010 World Cup. In addition to the three teams qualifying through the Olympic Qualifying Tournaments, the following twelve teams, shown with final pre-tournament rankings, competed in this tournament.[1]

Dates Event Location Quotas Qualifier(s)
Host nation 1  Great Britain (4)
13–24 November 2010 2010 Asian Games Guangzhou, China 2  China (5)
 South Korea (8)
20–27 August 2011 2011 EuroHockey Championship Mönchengladbach, Germany 2  Netherlands (1)
 Germany (3)
2–11 September 2011 2011 African Olympic Qualifier Bulawayo, Zimbabwe 0 —1
6–9 October 2011 2011 Women's Oceania Cup Hobart, Australia 2  New Zealand (6)
 Australia (7)
14–30 October 2011 2011 Pan American Games Guadalajara, Mexico 1  United States (10)
18–25 February 2012 Olympic Qualification Tournament 1 New Delhi, India 1  South Africa (12)
17–25 March 2012 Olympic Qualification Tournament 2 Kontich, Belgium 1  Belgium (16)
25 April – 5 May 2012 Olympic Qualification Tournament 3 Kakamigahara, Japan 1  Japan (9)
Invitational 1  Argentina1 (2)
Total 12
^1 – South Africa won the African qualifier tournament but gave up their automatic berth on the premise that they should play a qualifier having deemed the African tournament as sub-standard. Eventually they won the Qualification Tournament 1. Instead, Argentina was invited as the highest ranked team not already qualified after the conclusion of the continental championships. Argentina ended up being the runners-up.[2][3]

Umpires

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The FIH announced the list of umpires on 3 January 2012:[4]

  •  Claire Adenot (FRA)
  •  Julie Ashton-Lucy (AUS)
  •  Stella Bartlema (NED)
  •  Frances Block (GBR)
  •  Carolina de la Fuente (ARG)
  •  Elena Eskina (RUS)
  •  Amy Hassick (USA)
  •  Kelly Hudson (NZL)
  •  Soledad Iparraguirre (ARG)
  •  Michelle Joubert (RSA)
  •  Kang Hyun-young (KOR)
  •  Carol Metchette (IRL)
  •  Miao Lin (CHN)
  •  Irene Presenqui (ARG)
  •  Lisa Roach (AUS)
  •  Chieko Soma (JPN)
  •  Wendy Stewart (CAN)

Squads

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Results

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All times are British Summer Time (UTC+01:00)''[5]

First round

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Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) head-to-head result.

Pool A

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Netherlands 5 5 0 0 12 5 +7 15 Semi-finals
2  Great Britain (H) 5 3 0 2 14 7 +7 9
3  China 5 2 1 2 6 3 +3 7
4  South Korea 5 2 0 3 9 13 −4 6
5  Japan 5 1 1 3 4 9 −5 4
6  Belgium 5 0 2 3 2 10 −8 2
Source: FIH
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Matches won; 3) Goal difference; 4) Goals for; 5) Head-to-head result.
(H) Hosts

Pool B

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Argentina 5 3 1 1 12 4 +8 10 Semi-finals
2  New Zealand 5 3 1 1 9 5 +4 10
3  Australia 5 3 1 1 5 2 +3 10
4  Germany 5 2 1 2 6 7 −1 7
5  South Africa 5 1 0 4 9 14 −5 3
6  United States 5 1 0 4 4 13 −9 3
Source: FIH
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Matches won; 3) Goal difference; 4) Goals for; 5) Head-to-head result.

Fifth to twelfth place classification

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Eleventh and twelfth place

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Ninth and tenth place

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Seventh and eighth place

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Fifth and sixth place

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Medal round

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The final: Argentina and Netherlands
 
Semi-finalsGold medal match
 
      
 
8 August 2012
 
 
 Netherlands (p.s.o.)2 (3)
 
10 August 2012
 
 New Zealand2 (1)
 
 Netherlands2
 
8 August 2012
 
 Argentina0
 
 Argentina2
 
 
 Great Britain1
 
Bronze medal match
 
 
10 August 2012
 
 
 New Zealand1
 
 
 Great Britain3

Semifinals

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Bronze medal match

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Gold medal match

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Statistics

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Final ranking

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As per statistical convention in field hockey, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Final result
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Netherlands 7 6 1 0 16 7 +9 19 Gold Medal
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Argentina 7 4 1 2 14 7 +7 13 Silver Medal
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Great Britain 7 4 0 3 18 10 +8 12 Bronze Medal
4  New Zealand 7 3 2 2 12 10 +2 11 Fourth place
5  Australia 6 4 1 1 7 2 +5 13 Eliminated in
group stage
6  China 6 2 1 3 6 5 +1 7
7  Germany 6 3 1 2 10 8 +2 10
8  South Korea 6 2 0 4 10 17 −7 6
9  Japan 6 2 1 3 6 10 −4 7
10  South Africa 6 1 0 5 10 16 −6 3
11  Belgium 6 1 2 3 4 11 −7 5
12  United States 6 1 0 5 5 15 −10 3
Source: FIH

Goalscorers

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There were 118 goals scored in 38 matches, for an average of 3.11 goals per match.

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Source: FIH

References

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  1. ↑ "Qualification System – Games of the XXX Olympiad" (PDF). FIH. April 2011. Retrieved 2012-11-13.
  2. ↑ "Argentina makes Olympics after S.Africa withdrawal". The China Post. Archived from the original on March 5, 2012. Retrieved 2011-11-16.
  3. ↑ "Las Leonas estarán en Londres 2012". CAH. Retrieved 2011-11-14.
  4. ↑ "Officials confirmed for XXX Olympic Games". FIH. 2012-01-03. Retrieved 2012-01-07.
  5. ↑ "Olympic Hockey schedule unveiled". FIH. 2012-05-22. Retrieved 2012-05-27.
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