Field hockey

It’s always good to revise your notes after getting a question wrong and finding essentially the same question in them.

Questions

Which country won the first ever Olympic women’s field hockey event in 1980, strangely also their only appearance in the event?

ZIMBABWE

Only managing to medal once in the Olympics, which country’s only women’s field hockey medal was gold in 1992?

SPAIN

Which country have been runner up in women’s field hockey three times including at Tokyo 2020, yet to take the gold?

ARGENTINA

Which men’s hockey team are second behind India with four victories, most recently in 2012?

GERMANY

As well as their most recent success in 1984, in which two other years did Pakistan’s men’s hockey team win their golds?

1960 AND 1968

Whose only men’s field hockey gold came in 2004, with them losing to Belgium in the 2020 final?

AUSTRALIA

Somehow qualifying from their pool despite only winning one game and having a negative goal difference thanks to a 5-2 loss to Pakistan, whose only men’s field hockey gold came in 1976, their only medal to date?

NEW ZEALAND

Which captain of the 1976 New Zealand gold medal winning field hockey team scored the only goal in the final against Australia, the winning goal in extra time against the Netherlands in the semi and the decisive goal in a win against Belgium in the Group stage?

TONY INESON