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2007 Women's Hockey Champions Challenge
The 2007 Women's Hockey Champions Challenge I was the 4th edition of the Champions Challenge I for women. China won the tournament for the first time, defeating South Korea 2–1 in the final. Teams Alongside the host nation, 5 teams competed in the tournament. * (host nation) * * * * * Results Preliminary Round ---- ---- ---- ---- Classification Round Fifth and sixth place Third and fourth place Final Statistics Final Standings # # # # # # References {{Women's Hockey Champions Challenge Women's Hockey Champions Challenge I Champions Challenge Hockey Champions Challenge Women International women's field hockey competitions hosted by Azerbaijan Hockey Champions Challenge The Men's Hockey Champions Challenge I was an international men's field hockey tournament, played every two years. It was introduced in 2001 by the International Hockey Federation (FIH) in order to broaden hockey's competitive base at world leve ... Sports compet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baku
Baku (, ; az, Bakı ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world and also the largest city in the world located below sea level. Baku lies on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, alongside the Bay of Baku. Baku's urban population was estimated at two million people as of 2009. Baku is the primate city of Azerbaijan—it is the sole metropolis in the country, and about 25% of all inhabitants of the country live in Baku's metropolitan area. Baku is divided into twelve administrative raions and 48 townships. Among these are the townships on the islands of the Baku Archipelago, and the town of Oil Rocks built on stilts in the Caspian Sea, away from Baku. The Inner City of Baku, along with the Shirvanshah's Palace and Maiden Tower, were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000. The c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Richardson-Walsh
Kate Louise Richardson-Walsh, (''née'' Walsh; born 9 May 1980) is an Olympic Gold and Bronze Medal winning English field hockey player. She was capped a record 375 times for her country and was the England and Great Britain Captain for 13 years. Early life Richardson-Walsh was born in Withington, Manchester and attended Priestnall School in Stockport. At the age of 16 she joined Aquinas College in Stockport because it afforded her more support for her hockey. She graduated from Brunel University in 2003 with a 2:1 (BSc Sports Science). At the age of 11 she joined Didsbury Greys Hockey Club in Manchester followed by Hightown Hockey club. Richardson-Walsh was selected to play for the under 16 Great Britain team when she was 14. It took Richardson-Walsh just nine years to go from starting hockey at her school aged 11 to playing for her country at the Sydney Olympic Games. International career Richardson-Walsh made both her England and Great Britain debuts in 1999 and has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April Fronzoni
April Fronzoni (born February 18, 1982 in Larksville, Pennsylvania) is a field hockey striker from the United States, who earned her first international senior cap versus Ireland on January 14, 2004 at Stanford, California. Fronzoni attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she played for the Wolverines. Fronzoni has been a mainstay in the U.S. system since competing on the junior national team in the late 1990s, and is prone to scoring decisive goals. She gave the senior national team a 1-0 win over New Zealand in the ATA Holdings Champions' Challenge on a penalty corner goal taken after the expiration of the second half. International senior competitions * 2004 – Olympic Qualifying Tournament, Auckland, New Zealand (6th) * 2004 – Pan American Cup, Bridgetown, Barbados (2nd) * 2006 – World Cup Qualifier, Rome, Italy (4th) * 2006 – World Cup A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities – usually inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dana Sensenig
Dana Sensenig (born November 30, 1984) is an American field hockey player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na .... References External links * 1984 births Living people American female field hockey players Olympic field hockey players for the United States Field hockey players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Lancaster, Pennsylvania 21st-century American women {{US-fieldhockey-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Danson
Alexandra Mary Louise "Alex" Danson, (born 21 May 1985) is a retired English international hockey player who played as a forward for England and Great Britain. She played club hockey for Clifton Robinsons, Reading, Klein Zwitserland, Trojans anAlton Danson attended two independent schools, Yateley Manor Prep School and Farnborough Hill School, a Roman Catholic school for girls. Farnborough Hill School named their all-weather hockey pitch in her honour. She made her full international debut on 23 October 2001 against Germany. She won a gold medal at the 2016 Olympic Games and a bronze medal at the 2012 Olympic Games.Alex Danson profile GB Hockey. Retrieved 4 June 2014. Danson was appointed |
Melanie Clewlow
Melanie "Mel" Clewlow (born 7 May 1976 in Dover, Kent) is an English field hockey player. She was a member of the England and Great Britain squads. She made her international debut in 1996, and was part of the England squad that won silver in the 1998 Commonwealth Games, as well as competing twice for Great Britain at the 2000 and 2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ... Summer Olympics. Clewlow initially retired in 2005, but returned shortly after, and retired a second time after competing at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She has played for Canterbury Hockey Club. References External links * 1976 births English female field hockey players Living people Olympic field hockey players of Great Britain British female field hockey players Field hockey player ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Hongxia
Li Hongxia (; born 10 September 1986 in Liaoning Province) is a field hockey player from China. She won a silver medal with the national women's hockey team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She won a silver medal as a member of the Chinese team at 2014 Asian Games The 2014 Asian Games ( ko, 2014년 아시아 경기대회/2014년 아시안 게임, Icheon sip-sa nyeon Asia gyeonggi daehoe/Icheon sip-sa nyeon Asian Geim), officially known as the 17th Asian Games ( ko, 제17회 아시아 경기대회/제17회 .... References External links * * 1986 births Living people Chinese female field hockey players Asian Games medalists in field hockey Asian Games gold medalists for China Asian Games silver medalists for China Field hockey players at the 2006 Asian Games Field hockey players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 2010 Asian Games Field hockey players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 2014 Asian Games Fiel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tang Chunling
Tang Chunling (, born June 24, 1976, in Yitong, Siping, Jilin) is a Chinese field hockey player who competed in the 2000, 2004 and 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the .... In 2000, she was part of the Chinese team which finished fifth in the women's competition. She played all seven matches and scored one goal. Four years later Tang finished fourth with the Chinese team in the women's competition. She played all six matches and scored four goals. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, she was part of the Chinese team that won the silver medal. In 2012, Tang was one of the team reserves. References External links * Profile at Yahoo! Sports 1976 births Living people Chinese female field hockey players Field hockey players at the 2000 Summer Ol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xing Qian
XING is a Hamburg-based career-oriented social networking site, operated by New Work SE (until mid-2019 ''XING SE''). The site is primarily focused on the German-speaking market, alongside XING Spain, and competes with the American platform LinkedIn. Company history OPEN Business Club AG was founded in August 2003 in Hamburg, Germany by Lars Hinrichs. Its official debut was 1 November 2003. It was renamed XING in November 2006. In its early years, the site pursued a global strategy; however, since 2012, XING has focused on the German-speaking market, as 76% of all XING page views come from Germany and 90% come from the D-A-CH area. Leadership Lars Hinrich led the company as CEO until 2009, when he was succeeded by Stefan Groß-Selbeck. Thomas Vollmoeller has served from 2012 and was succeeded by Petra von Strombeck in 2020. Number of users As of April 2019, XING reported 16 million members, up from 10 million members in the D-A-CH area in March 2016, which at that time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Saunders (field Hockey)
Kate Saunders (born 6 May 1982) is a New Zealand field hockey player who competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na .... Since 2019, she has been the coach of the Melbourne University Hockey Club top women's team, who were promoted to the Victorian Premier League in 2019. Kate Saunders is a fan of Queen Elizabeth II, stating, ”she’s just so amazing”. References External links * 1982 births Living people New Zealand female field hockey players Olympic field hockey players for New Zealand Field hockey players at the 2008 Summer Olympics {{NewZealand-fieldhockey-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caryn Paewai
Caryn Erena Paewai (born 27 August 1975) is a former field hockey player from New Zealand, who finished in sixth position with the Women's National Team, nicknamed ''Black Sticks'', at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Two years later she was a member of the side that finished fourth at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester. She was born in Dannevirke. Paewai earned a Graduate Diploma of Business Studies at Massey University. In 2002, she was named Māori Sportsperson of the Year at University Sport New Zealand's annual blues Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afr ... dinner. References External links * New Zealand Olympic Committee* New Zealand female field hockey players Field hockey players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
