The 2000 Women's Field Hockey Olympic Qualifier was the fourth time a qualification tournament was held for the

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. The tournament was held in

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, from 24 March to 2 April. The top five placed teams from the tournament qualified for the

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Officials

The following umpires were appointed by the

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to officiate the tournament: * Michelle Arnold ( AUS) * Jane Buchanan ( RSA) * Renée Chatas ( USA) * Ute Conen ( GER) * Renée Cohen ( NED) * Ute Conen ( GER) * Lyn Farrell ( NZL) * Miriam van Gemert ( NED) * Angela Larío ( ESP) * Lee Mi-ok ( KOR) * Jane Nockolds ( ENG) * Mary Power ( IRE) * Gina Spitaleri ( ITA) * Kazuko Yasueda ( JPN) * Jun Zhang ( CHN)

Squads

Head coach: Kim Changbak # Nie Yali ( GK) # Long Fengyu ( C) # Yang Hongbing # Liu Lijie # Cheng Hui # Shen Lihong # Huang Junxia #

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# Yu Yali #

Tang Chunling # Zhou Wanfeng #

Hu Xiaolan # Ding Hongping # Cai Xuemei # Chen Zhaoxia # Chen Qiuqi # Wang Jiuyan # Li Juan ( GK) Head coach: Berti Rauth # Julia Zwehl ( GK) # Birgit Beyer ( GK) # Denise Klecker #

Tanja Dickenscheid Tanja Roswitha Dickenscheid (born 17 June 1969 in Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz) is a former field hockey player from Germany, who was a member of the national squad that won the silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. She competed in t ...

# Nadine Ernsting-Krienke # Inga Möller # Natascha Keller # Melanie Cremer # Friederike Barth #

Cornelia Reiter # Britta Becker # Marion Rodewald #

Heike Lätzsch # Katrin Kauschke ( C) #

Simone Grässer #

Fanny Rinne # Caroline Casaretto #

Franziska Gude Head coach: Jon Royce # Carolyn Reid ( GK) # Hilary Rose ( GK) # Kirsty Bowden # Jane Smith # Susan Chandler ( C) #

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# Tina Cullen # Kathryn Johnson # Mandy Nicholson # Jane Sixsmith # Purdy Miller # Denise Marston-Smith # Helen Richardson # Fiona Greenham # Janet Jack # Kate Walsh # Sarah Blanks # Lucilla Wright Head coach: Jon Royce Head coach: Jon Royce Head coach: Jon Royce Head coach: Jon Royce Head coach: Jon Royce Head coach: Jon Royce Head coach: Jon Royce

Results

Preliminary round

Group A

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Pool B

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Classification round

Ninth and tenth place

Fifth to eighth place classification

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First to fourth place classification

=Semi-finals

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=Third and fourth place

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Final standings

Goalscorers

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References

Overview on FIH-site

* ''Hockey Sport'', April 2000, Issue 204

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