Field hockey at the 1908 Summer Olympics
At the 1908 Summer Olympics, a field hockey tournament was contested for the first time. Six teams entered the tournament: England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Germany and France. England won the gold medal, Ireland the silver and Scotland and Wales were awarded bronze medals. All the medals were subsequently credited to Great Britain.[1][2]
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Venue | White City Stadium | ||||||||||||||||
Dates | 29 October 1908 | –31||||||||||||||||
Teams | 6 | ||||||||||||||||
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Squads
France
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Germany
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![]() England team, Gold Medal
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Great Britain
England
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Ireland
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Scotland
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Wales
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Results
Bracket
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29 October | ||||||||||
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30 October | ||||||||||
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31 October | ||||||||||
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30 October | ||||||||||
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First round
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Semi-finals
There were no playoffs for third place, so the losers of the semi-finals received bronze medals.
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Extra match
A match between the two continental teams took place between the semifinals and the final. Both France and Germany had lost in the first round, and thus the extra match could be considered to be a fifth and sixth place playoff match, though the official report makes no mention of that.
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Sources
- Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association.
- De Wael, Herman (2002). "Hockey 1908". Herman's Full Olympians. Retrieved 3 May 2006.
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References
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- "Canada will win". Dawson Daily News. 20 October 1908. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- "Hockey at the 1908 London Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- Official Report, p. 203
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