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2013 Under 21 Men's Australian Hockey Championships
The 2013 Under 21 Men's Australian Hockey Championships was a men's field hockey tournament held in the Queensland city of Brisbane. Queensland won the gold medal after defeating New South Wales 3–2 in the final. Victoria (Australia), Victoria won the bronze medal by defeating South Australia 3–1 in the third and fourth playoff. Competition format The tournament is played in a round robin format, with each team facing each other once. Final placings after the pool matches determine playoffs. The bottom four teams play in the classification round. Two crossover matches are played, with the fifth placed team playing the eighth place team and the sixth placed team facing the seventh placed team. The winners of the crossover matches progress to the fifth and sixth place playoff, while the losers contest the seventh and eighth place playoff. The top four teams contest the medal round. Two semi-finals are played, with the first placed team taking on the fourth placed team and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |