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45 teams have competed in at least one Olympic Games.
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Australia and the Netherlands are the only teams to have competed at almost every Olympic Games, except for only one edition; 21 teams have competed in at least one Olympic Games.
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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 ...
was introduced at the Olympic Games as a men's competition at the 1908 Games in London, with six teams, four from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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and other two were France and Germany.
History
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 ...
was removed from the Summer Olympic Games
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at the 1924 Paris Games because of the lack of an international sporting structure. The International Hockey Federation
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(FIH, ''Fédération Internationale de Hockey'') was founded in Paris
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that year as a response to field hockey's omission. Men's field hockey became a permanent feature at the next Olympic Games, the 1928 Games in Amsterdam.
For a long time, India
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dominated the Olympics, winning the men's gold medal in seven out of eight Olympics from 1928 to 1964. Later, Pakistan
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was also dominant, winning three gold and three silver medals between 1956 and 1984. India lost their dominance after the 1980s and Pakistan after the 1990s. India won their last gold medal in 1980
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and Pakistan in 1984 Games. However India again won bronze medal in 2020 games after a long time.
Since 1968, various teams from around the world have seen gold-medal success at the Olympics. Since 1968, several countries in the Southern Hemisphere have won various medals in men's and women's field hockey, including Australia
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, New Zealand
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, Argentina
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, and Zimbabwe
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. A leading group of teams from the Northern Hemisphere
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has come from the Netherlands
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and from Germany
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has appeared in the most Olympic men's competitions without winning the men's gold medal, having won silver three times in 1980
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, 1996
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, 2008
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and bronze once in 1960
It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.
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. Australia
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had competed in 12 Olympics without winning gold before breaking their streak in 2004
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The first women's Olympic field hockey competition was introduced by the IOC at the 1980 Summer Olympics
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. Olympic field hockey games were first played on artificial turf
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at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games.
Until the 1988 Olympics the tournament was invitational but FIH introduced a qualification system since the 1992 games.
India is the leading team in overall medal tally with 12 medals (8 gold, 1 silver and 3 bronze). India also lead in most number of gold medals.
Men
Results
Top four statistics
:Team appearances
:Debut of teams
Women
Results
Top four statistics
:Team appearances
:Debut of teams
:''* = Defunct Team'' :''# = Germany is official successor of West Germany''Medal table
Sources:Total
Men
Women
See also
* List of Olympic venues in field hockeyNotes
References
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