Indian Women Hockey Team Ends 36-Year Wait, Qualifies For 2016 Rio Olympics

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Indian Women Hockey Team Ends 36-Year Wait, Qualifies For 2016 Rio Olympics


Indian women's hockey team will return to the Olympics after a long gap of 36 years as it qualified on Saturday for 2016 Rio games, courtesy England making it to the final of the ongoing EuroHockey Championships in London. Source: FRANK UIJLENBROEK/hockeyindia.org



"The winner of the EuroHockey Championships will qualify for the 2016 Olympics as European continental champions, opening up a further qualification spot which India secure as the team who ranked highest at the Hockey World League Semi-Finals not already qualified," it said.

Indian women's team now joins nine other teams who have already qualified for 2016 Rio Games — Korea as Asian Games champions, Argentina as Pan Am Games champions and Great Britain, China, Germany, Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand and the USA through the Hockey World League Semi-Finals. Indian women's hockey team last featured in an Olympics in the 1980 Moscow Games, where they finished at a respectable fourth position.

Source: FRANK UIJLENBROEK/hockeyindia.org

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