The Soviet Union women's national field hockey team represented the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

in women's international

field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ci ...

and was controlled by the

Federation of bandy and field hockey USSR Federation of bandy and field hockey USSR (Russian: Федерация хоккея с мячом и хоккея на траве СССР) was the governing body for the sports of bandy and field hockey in the Soviet Union. The federation was gov ...

, the governing body for field hockey in the Soviet Union.

Tournament record

Summer Olympics

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World Cup

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– 10th place *

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– 8th place

European Championship

1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...

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Friendship Games

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Past squads

1980 Olympic Games

* Valentina Zazdravnykh * Tatyana Shvyganova * Galina Vyuzhanina * Tatyana Yembakhtova * Alina Kham * Natella Krasnikova *

Nadezhda Ovechkina Nadezhda Ovechkina (born 30 September 1958) is a Russian field hockey player and Olympic medalist. She was born in Moscow. Competing for the Soviet Union, she won a bronze medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow Moscow ( , US chi ...

* Nelli Gorbyatkova * Yelena Guryeva * Galina Inzhuvatova * Nadezhda Filippova * Lyudmila Frolova * Lidiya Glubokova * Leyla Akhmerova * Natalia Buzunova * Natalia Bykova

External links

Soviet Union field hockey team at 1980 Olympics at sports-references

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Former national field hockey teams

Field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ci ...

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