Field hockey at the 2014 Asian Games explained

Event:	Field hockey
Games:	2014
Venue:	Seonhak Hockey Stadium
Location:	Incheon, South Korea
Dates:	–
Competitors:	288
Nations:	13
Prev:	2010
Next:	2018

Field hockey at the 2014 Asian Games was held in Incheon, South Korea from 20 September to 2 October 2014.

The winners of the tournament qualified as Asian representatives to the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Medal summary

Medalists

Men	Rupinder Pal Singh Kothajit Singh Manpreet Singh Sardara Singh Dharamvir Singh V. R. Raghunath Gurbaj Singh P. R. Sreejesh Danish Mujtaba Gurwinder Singh Chandi S. V. Sunil Birendra Lakra Akashdeep Singh Chinglensana Singh Ramandeep Singh Nikkin Thimmaiah	Imran Butt Muhammad Imran Muhammad Irfan Ammad Shakeel Butt Fareed Ahmed Rashid Mehmood Muhammad Waqas Muhammad Umar Bhutta Abdul Haseem Khan Shafqat Rasool Shakeel Abbasi Muhammad Rizwan Muhammad Tousiq Muhammad Rizwan Muhammad Dilber Kashif Shah	Lee Myung-ho Oh Dae-keun Lee Nam-yong Kang Moon-kweon Lee Seung-il Yoon Sung-hoon You Hyo-sik Jung Man-jae Kang Moon-kyu Hyun Hye-sung Hong Eun-seong Kim Young-jin Lee Seung-hoon Kim Seong-kyu Jang Jong-hyun Nam Hyun-woo
Women	Heo Jae-seong Kim Hyun-ji Shin Hye-jeong An Hyo-ju Han Hye-lyoung Park Mi-hyun Kim Jong-eun Kim Da-rae Cho Eun-ji Seo Jung-eun Kim Ok-ju Oh Sun-soon Park Ki-ju Jang Soo-ji Lee Young-sil Cheon Eun-bi	Li Dongxiao Wang Mengyu Huang Ting Xu Xiaoxu De Jiaojiao Cui Qiuxia Wu Mengrong Xi Xiayun Peng Yang Liang Meiyu Wang Na Li Hongxia Zhang Xiaoxue Sun Xiao Zhao Yudiao Song Qingling	Navjot Kaur Deep Grace Ekka Monika Malik Thokchom Chanchan Devi Savita Punia Ritu Rani Poonam Rani Vandana Kataria Deepika Thakur Namita Toppo Jaspreet Kaur Sunita Lakra Sushila Chanu Rani Rampal Amandeep Kaur Lilima Minz

Qualification

Top 6 Asian teams, South Korea, India, Pakistan, Japan, China and Malaysia could enter the men's competition directly. For the next six spots a qualification tournament was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh from 15 to 23 March 2014.^[1]

Women's qualification tournament was held in Bangkok, Thailand from 15 to 23 February 2014. All four teams qualified for the Asian Games but later Chinese Taipei withdrew from both tournaments, Iran also pulled out from the men's competition.^[2]

Men

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2
3
4
5
6
7
8

Women

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Draw

The teams were distributed according to their position at the FIH World Rankings using the serpentine system for their distribution.^{[3] [4] [5]}

Men

Pool A

• (8)
• (13)
• (14)
• (30)
• (36)

Pool B

• (9)
• (11)
• (22)
• (27)
• (40)

Women

Pool A

• (5)
• (13)
• (21)
• (53)

Pool B

• (9)
• (10)
• (33)
• (40)

Final standing

Men

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		6	4	1	1
		6	4	2	0
		6	5	0	1
4		6	3	1	2
5		5	2	1	2
6		5	2	1	2
7		5	2	0	3
8		5	1	0	4
9		5	1	0	4
10		5	0	0	5

Women

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		5	5	0	0
		5	4	0	1
		5	3	0	2
4		5	2	0	3
5		4	2	0	2
6		4	1	0	3
7		4	1	0	3
8		4	0	0	4

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bangladesh win Men’s Qualifying Tournament. Asian Hockey Federation. 20 August 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140821125852/http://www.asiahockey.org/mavista/cms/en/home/29019/Bangladesh-win-Men%E2%80%99s-Qualifying-Tournament. 21 August 2014.
2. Web site: Asian Games Qualifiers. Asian Hockey Federation. 20 August 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140821124323/http://www.asiahockey.org/mavista/cms/en/home/29037/Asian-Games-Qualifiers. 21 August 2014.
3. Web site: FIH Men's World Rankings – 16 June 2014. International Hockey Federation. 20 August 2014.
4. Web site: FIH Women's World Rankings – 16 June 2014. International Hockey Federation. 20 August 2014.
5. Web site: India grouped with Pakistan in Asian Games hockey. 20 August 2014. firstpost.com. 20 August 2014.