The men's field hockey tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics was the 23rd edition of the field hockey event for men at the Summer Olympics. It took place over a thirteen-day period beginning on 6 August, and culminated with the medal finals on 18 August. All games were played at the Olympic Hockey Centre in Deodoro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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| Host country | Brazil | ||
| City | Rio de Janeiro | ||
| Dates | 6–18 August 2016 | ||
| Teams | 12 | ||
| Venue(s) | Olympic Hockey Centre | ||
| Final positions | |||
| Champions |  Argentina (1st title) | ||
| Runner-up |  Belgium | ||
| Third place |  Germany | ||
| Tournament statistics | |||
| Matches played | 38 | ||
| Goals scored | 189 (4.97 per match) | ||
| Top scorer(s) | Gonzalo Peillat (11 goals) | ||
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Argentina won the gold medal for the first time after defeating Belgium 4–2 in the final.[1] Defending champions Germany won the bronze medal by defeating the Netherlands 4–3 on a penalty shoot-out after a 1–1 draw.[2]
The medals for the tournament were presented by René Fasel, Switzerland; Pierre-Olivier Beckers-Vieujant, Belgium; and Gerardo Werthein, Argentina; members of the International Olympic Committee.
Competition schedule edit
The match schedule of the men's tournament was unveiled on 27 April 2016.[3][4]
| G | Group stage | ¼ | Quarter-finals | ½ | Semi-finals | B | Bronze medal match | F | Final |
| Sat 6 | Sun 7 | Mon 8 | Tue 9 | Wed 10 | Thu 11 | Fri 12 | Sat 13 | Sun 14 | Mon 15 | Tue 16 | Wed 17 | Thu 18 | |
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| G | G | G | G | G | G | G | ¼ | ½ | B | F | |||
Competition format edit
The twelve teams in the tournament were divided into two groups of six, with each team initially playing round-robin games within their group. Following the completion of the round-robin stage, the top four teams from each group advance to the quarter-finals. The two semi-final winners meet for the gold medal match, while the semi-final losers play in the bronze medal match.
Qualification edit
Each of the Continental Champions from five confederations received an automatic berth. Brazil as the host nation qualified automatically but with a rider. Due to the standard of field hockey in Brazil, the International Hockey Federation (FIH) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) required Brazil to place higher than thirtieth in the FIH World Rankings by the end of 2014 or finish no worse than sixth at the 2015 Pan American Games in order to qualify as host nation. They achieved this by beating the United States on a penalty shoot-out in the quarterfinal, ensuring a top four finish. In addition to the six highest placed teams at the Semifinals of the 2014–15 FIH Hockey World League not already qualified, the following twelve teams, shown with final pre-tournament rankings, will compete in this tournament.[5][6]
| Dates | Event | Location | Qualifier |
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| 20 September – 2 October 2014 | 2014 Asian Games |  Incheon, South Korea
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 India
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| 3–14 June 2015 | 2014–15 FIH Hockey World League Semifinals | Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Germany
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 Canada
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 Spain
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 New Zealand
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| 20 June – 5 July 2015 | Antwerp, Belgium
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 Great Britain
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 Ireland
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| 21 July 2015 | Host nation | Toronto, Canada
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 Brazil
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| 14–25 July 2015 | 2015 Pan American Games | Toronto, Canada
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Argentina
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| 21–29 August 2015 | 2015 EuroHockey Nations Championship | London, England
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 Netherlands
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| 21–25 October 2015 | 2015 Oceania Cup | Stratford, New Zealand
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 Australia
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| 23 October – 1 November 2015 | 2015 African Qualifying Tournament |  Randburg, South Africa
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| Total | 12 | ||
- ^ South Africa won the continental qualifier however the team did not participate in the 2016 Olympics. South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) and South African Hockey Association (SAHA) made an agreement on the Rio 2016 Olympics qualification criteria that the Continental Qualification route would not be considered.[7][8] As a result, New Zealand, as the highest-ranked team from the 2014-15 Hockey World League Semifinals not already qualified, participated instead.[9][10]
Squads edit
Group stage edit
All times are local (UTC−3).
Group A edit
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 | Belgium
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5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 5 | +16 | 12 | Quarter-finals |
| 2 | Spain
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5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 6 | +7 | 10 | |
| 3 | Australia
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5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 4 | +9 | 9 | |
| 4 | New Zealand
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5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 8 | +9 | 7 | |
| 5 | Great Britain
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5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 10 | +4 | 5 | |
| 6 | Brazil (H)
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5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 46 | −45 | 0 |
Source: Rio2016
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Matches won; 3) Goal difference; 4) Goals for; 5) Head-to-head result.[11]
(H) Hosts
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Matches won; 3) Goal difference; 4) Goals for; 5) Head-to-head result.[11]
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Group B edit
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 | Germany
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5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 10 | +7 | 13 | Quarter-finals |
| 2 | Netherlands
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5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 6 | +12 | 10 | |
| 3 | Argentina
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5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 12 | +2 | 8 | |
| 4 | India
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5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 7 | |
| 5 | Ireland
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5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 16 | −6 | 3 | |
| 6 | Canada
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5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 22 | −15 | 1 |
Source: Rio2016
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Matches won; 3) Goal difference; 4) Goals for; 5) Head-to-head result.[12]
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Matches won; 3) Goal difference; 4) Goals for; 5) Head-to-head result.[12]
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Knockout stage edit
Bracket edit
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| Netherlands | 1 (3) | |||||||||
| Germany (p.s.o.) | 1 (4) | |||||||||
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Bronze medal match edit
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Gold medal match edit
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Final ranking edit
As per statistical convention in field hockey, matches decided in regular time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Final result |
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8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 25 | 17 | +8 | 17 | Gold Medal |
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8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 29 | 11 | +18 | 18 | Silver Medal |
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Germany
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8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 18 | +5 | 17 | Bronze Medal |
| 4 | Netherlands
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8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 24 | 10 | +14 | 14 | Fourth place |
| 5 | Spain
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6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 8 | +6 | 10 | Eliminated in quarter-finals |
| 6 | Australia
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6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 8 | +5 | 9 | |
| 7 | New Zealand
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6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 19 | 11 | +8 | 7 | |
| 8 | India
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6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 12 | −2 | 7 | |
| 9 | Great Britain
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5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 10 | +4 | 5 | Eliminated in group stage |
| 10 | Ireland
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5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 16 | −6 | 3 | |
| 11 | Canada
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5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 22 | −15 | 1 | |
| 12 | Brazil (H)
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5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 46 | −45 | 0 |
Goalscorers edit
There were 189 goals scored in 38 matches, for an average of 4.97 goals per match.
11 goals
9 goals
7 goals
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
Pedro Ibarra- Matías Paredes
Jamie Dwyer- Matthew Gohdes
- Blake Govers
Gauthier Boccard- John-John Dohmen
- Arthur van Doren
Florian Fuchs- Mathias Müller
- Christopher Rühr
V. R. Raghunath- Akashdeep Singh
Michael Darling
Jorrit Croon
Hugo Inglis- Kane Russell
David Alegre- Álex Casasayas
- Roc Oliva
- Pau Quemada
- Josep Romeu
1 goal
- Juan Ignacio Gilardi
- Agustín Mazzilli
- Joaquín Menini
- Ignacio Ortiz
- Matías Rey
- Juan Saladino
- Chris Ciriello
- Matthew Dawson
- Jacob Whetton
- Aran Zalewski
- Thomas Briels
- Tom Boon
- Félix Denayer
- Simon Gougnard
- Emmanuel Stockbroekx
Stephane Smith
Mark Pearson- Keegan Pereira
- Linus Butt
- Timm Herzbruch
- Christopher Wesley
- Martin Zwicker
Nicholas Catlin- David Condon
- Adam Dixon
- Mark Gleghorne
- Harry Martin
- Chinglensana Singh
- Kothajit Singh
- Ramandeep Singh
- Peter Caruth
- Conor Harte
- John Jermyn
- Eugene Magee
- Kirk Shimmins
- Billy Bakker
- Rogier Hofman
- Robbert Kempermann
- Mirco Pruijser
- Valentin Verga
- Bob de Voogd
- Stephen Jenness
- Shea McAleese
- Shay Neal
- Hayden Phillips
- Nic Woods
- Viçens Ruiz
References edit
- ^ "Rio Olympics 2016: Argentina beat Belgium 4-2 in the men's hockey final". bbc.com. 18 August 2016.
- ^ "Germany takes bronze in shootout win over Netherlands". nbcolympics.com. 18 August 2016. Archived from the original on 27 September 2016. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
- ^ "Hockey giants set to renew rivalries as match schedule unveiled for Rio 2016 Olympic Games". Rio2016.com. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. 27 April 2016. Archived from the original on 27 April 2016.
- ^ "Rio 2016 Olympic Games hockey schedules confirmed". fih.ch. 27 April 2016.
- ^ "Rio 2016 – FIH Hockey Qualification System" (PDF). FIH. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
- ^ "Brazil Men confirm their place in the hockey event at Rio 2016". FIH. Retrieved 22 July 2015.
- ^ "Agreement between SASCOC and SAHA" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-09-22. Retrieved 2023-05-01.
- ^ "Rio 2016 Olympics Selection Criteria for SA Hockey Association". Archived from the original on 2015-11-21. Retrieved 2023-05-01.
- ^ "Qualification Criteria" (PDF).
- ^ "Spain women and New Zealand men invited to Rio 2016 Olympic Games hockey events". FIH. 17 December 2015. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
- ^ Rio 2016 Regulations
- ^ Rio 2016 Regulations
External links edit
- Field hockey at Rio2016.com
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