1996 Men's Field Hockey Olympic Qualifier Explained

Tournament:	1996 Men's Field Hockey Olympic Qualifier
City:	Barcelona
Teams:	8
Dates:	19–28 January
Matches:	28
Goals:	116
Top Scorer:	Taco van den Honert
Top Scorer Goals:	12
Previous Year:	1991
Previous Tournament:	1991 Men's Field Hockey Olympic Qualifier
Next Year:	2000
Next Tournament:	2000 Men's Field Hockey Olympic Qualifier

The 1996 Men's Olympic Qualifier was a field hockey tournament held in Barcelona, Spain, from 19–28 January 1996. The tournament was held at the Real Club de Polo.^{[1] [2]}

Eight nations competed at the tournament, with the top five earning qualification to the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

Squads

• Igor Barkov
• Vitali Bondarenko
• Alexandre Boudnikov
• Guennadi Bribovski
• Youri Canja
• Serguey Drozdov
• Alexandre Eklemenko (gk)
• Dmitri Yukovski
• Stepan Klimovich
• Yuri Korottchenko
• Alexandre Mankovski
• Nikolay Sankovets
• Andrei Tchebotarev
• Albert Vintekevich (c)
• Igor Voltyuk
• Alexandre Yukovets

Head Coach: unknown

• Fabian Berger
• Joeri Beunen
• Mick Beunen
• Alexandre de Chaffoy
• Marc Coudron (c)
• Jean-Michel Deville
• Gérald Dewamme
• Philippe van Hemelen
• Laurent Kelecom
• Michel Kinnen
• Michel van Oost (gk)
• Patrick Pille
• Thierry Renear
• Vincent Van Diest
• Bruno Vuylsteke
• Jean Willems

Head Coach: Alain Geens

• Alan Brahmst
• Patrick Burrows (c)
• Paul Chohan
• Robin D'Abreo
• John Desouza
• Rob Edamura
• Adam Evans
• Marek Gacek
• Chris Gifford
• Doug Harris
• Hari Kant (gk)
• Peter Milkovich
• Ken Pereira
• Rick Roberts
• André Rousseau (gk)
• Rob Short

Head Coach: Shiaz Virjee

• Guy Fordham
• Calum Giles
• Daniel Hall
• Julian Halls
• Simon Hazlitt
• Howard Hoskin
• Jason Laslett (c)
• David Luckes (gk)
• Simon Mason (gk)
• Chris Mayer
• John Shaw
• Soma Singh
• Kalbir Takher
• Nick Thompson
• Robert Thompson
• Jon Wyatt

Head Coach: unknown

• Anil Aldrin
• Edward Alloysins (gk)
• Bopaiah Anjapara (gk)
• Gavin Ferreira
• Sandeep Hamachimana
• Sanjeev Khumar
• Mukesh Kumar
• Dhanraj Pillay
• Mohamed Riaz Nabi
• Baljeet Singh Dhillon
• Baljeet Singh Saini
• Harpreet Singh
• Ramandeep Singh
• Pargat Singh (c)
• Dilip Tirkey
• Sabu Varkey

Head Coach: Cedric D'Souza

• Lim Chiow Chuan
• Charles David
• Calvin Fernandez
• Nadarajan Marathumuthu (gk)
• Maninderjt Singh
• Lailin Abu Hassan
• Brian Jayhan Siva
• Chairil Anwar Abdul Aziz
• Lum Mun Fatt
• Shankar Ramu
• Nor Saiful Nasiruddin (c)
• Mirnawan Nawawi
• Aphtar Singh
• Arul Selvaraj Sami
• Kuhan Shanmuganathan
• Yahia Vickneswaran

Head Coach: Volker Knapp

• Jacques Brinkman
• Maurits Crucq
• Marc Delissen (c)
• Jeroen Delmee
• Sander van Heeswijk
• Taco van den Honert
• Ronald Jansen (gk)
• Erik Jazet
• Leo Klein Gebbink
• Teun de Nooijer
• Wouter van Pelt
• Stephan Veen
• Guus Vogels (gk)
• Rogier van der Wal
• Remco van Wijk
• Rochus Westbroek

Head Coach: Roelant Oltmans

• Oriol Alcarez
• Jaime Amat
• Javier Arnau
• Jordi Arnau
• Óscar Barrena
• Juan Dinarés
• Juan Escarré
• Javier Escudé
• Juantxo García-Mauriño
• Antonio González (gk)
• Antonio Iglesias
• Ramón Jufresa (gk)
• Joaquim Malgosa (c)
• Victor Pujol
• Ramón Sala
• Pablo Usoz

Head Coach: Toni Forrellat

Results

Fixtures

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Final standings

• The top five teams qualified for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

See also

• 1995 Women's Field Hockey Olympic Qualifier

Notes and References

1. Web site: SUMMARY OF RANKINGS – FIH WORLD LEVEL EVENTS . https://web.archive.org/web/20060411173131/http://www.fihockey.org/vsite/vfile/page/fileurl/0%2C11040%2C1181-168263-185481-93334-0-file%2C00.pdf . dead . 11 April 2006 . . fihockey.org . 14 September 2023 . dmy-all .
2. Web site: Men Field Hockey Olympic Games 1996 Qualification . Todor Krastev . todor66.com . 14 September 2023 . dmy-all .