Field hockey at the Olympics

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The Olympic Games have always been a major event for Field hockey. This sport is among the oldest ones to have a competition during the event.

Hockey first appeared at the Olympic Games as a men's competition at 1908 Olympic Games in London, with six teams, including four from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Hockey was removed from the Olympics at the 1924 Paris Games due to the lack of an international structure. The International Hockey Federation (FIH, Fédération Internationale de Hockey) was founded in Paris that year as a response to hockey's omission. Men's hockey became a permanent fixture at the next Olympic Games (the 1928 Games in Amsterdam). Women had to wait until the 1980 Moscow Games to be incorporated in the Olympic hockey competitions.

The games were played on artificial turf for the first time at the 1976 Montreal Games.

Contents

1 Men's Olympic hockey tournament

1.1 Notes

2 Women's Olympic hockey tournament
3 Nations

3.1 Men's

4 See also

Men's Olympic hockey tournament

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1908 LondonIn 1908, six teams competed in the hockey tournament, representing the four nations that comprised the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland at that time (namely, England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales) as well as teams from Germany and France. All four of the semifinalist teams were from the United Kingdom and were entered by the British Olympic Association which at the time had jurisdiction over Ireland and which still allows competitors from Northern Ireland to compete on the team that the IOC refers to as Great Britain. There was no game to decide third and fourth place, so bronze medals were awarded retroactively to two teams.	England	Ireland	Scotland and Wales
1920 Antwerp	GB and NI
1928 Amsterdam
1932 Los Angeles
1936 Berlin
1948 London		GB and NI
1952 Helsinki			GB and NI
1956 Melbourne			United German
1960 Rome
1964 Tokyo
1968 Mexico
1972 Munich
1976 Montreal
1980 Moscow
1984 Los Angeles			GB and NI
1988 Seoul	GB and NI
1992 Barcelona
1996 Atlanta
2000 Sydney
2004 Athens

Notes

Women's Olympic hockey tournament