2004 Men's Hockey Olympic Qualifier

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The Men's Field Hockey Olympic Qualifier for the 2004 Summer Olympics was held at the two artificial pitches of Club de Campo in Madrid, Spain, from March 2 until 13, 2004. Twelve nations took part, and they played a round robin in two groups of six. The top six or seven teams – depening the protest of Greece (see later on) – joined Australia (Oceania Cup winner), Argentina (Pan American Games winner), South Korea (Asian Games winner), Germany (European Nations Cup winner) and Egypt (All Africa Games winner).

The tournament was hit by the Madrid bombings on March 11, killing 191 people, but continued with players wearing black sleeves on their shirts for the remaining three days of the event.

Contents 1 Team squads 1.1  Belgium 1.2  Canada 1.3  Great Britain 1.4  India 1.5  Japan 1.6  Malaysia 1.7  Netherlands 1.8  New Zealand 1.9  Pakistan 1.10  Poland 1.11  South Africa 1.12  Spain 2 Standings 2.1 Pool A 2.2 Pool B 3 Play-offs 3.1 Thursday March 11, 2004 3.2 Friday March 12, 2004 3.3 Saturday March 13, 2004 4 Final Rankings 5 Remarks 6 Awards 7 References

[edit] Team squads

[edit]  Belgium

(1.) Cédric Degreve (gk), (2.) Xavier Reckinger, (4.) Thierry Renaer, (5.) Xavier-Charles Letier, (6.) Loïc Vandeweghe, (7.) Jean-Philippe Brulé, (8.) Thomas Van Den Balck, (9.) Maxime Luycx, (10.) Mike Dewever, (11.) Charles Vandeweghe, (12.) Dennis Dijkshoorn, (13.) Gilles Petre, (14.) Phillippe Goldberg, (15.) Marc Coudron , (16.) Xavier Brooke, (17.) Manu Leroy (gk), and (18.) Patrice Houssein. Head Coach: Gilles Bonnet.

[edit]  Canada

(1.) Bindi Kullar, (2.) Mike Mahood (gk), (3.) Mike Oliver, (5.) Robin D'Abreo, (6.) Steve Davis, (9.) Ken Pereira, (10.) Wayne Fernandes, (11.) Peter Short, (12.) David Jameson, (13.) Rob Short , (14.) Ronnie Jagday, (15.) Sean Campbell, (16.) Scott Sandison, (18.) Paul Wettlaufer, (20.) Ranjeev Deol, (21.) Ravi Kahlon, (24.) Connor Grimes, and (29.) Jon MacKinnon. Head Coach: Gene Muller.

[edit]  Great Britain

(1.) Simon Mason (gk), (2.) Jimi Lewis (gk), (3.) Jason Collins, (4.) Russell Garcia, (6.) Craig Parnham, (7.) Niall Stott, (8.) Tom Bertram, (9.) Mark Pearn, (10.) Jimmy Wallis, (11.) Brett Garrard , (12.) Ben Hawes, (13.) Daniel Hall, (14.) Michael Johnson, (15.) Martin Jones, (18.) Barry Middleton, (19.) Graham Dunlop, and (22.) Graham Moodie. Head Coach: Jason Lee.

[edit]  India

(1.) Devesh Chauhan (gk), (2.) Kanwalpreet Singh, (3.) Dilip Tirkey , (4.) Baljit Singh Saini, (5.) Bimal Lakra, (6.) Ignace Tirkey, (8.) Deepak Thakur, (10.) Baljit Singh Dhillon, (11.) Gagan Ajit Singh, (12.) Len Aiyappa, (14.) Prabjoth Singh, (15.) Daljit Singh Dhillon, (18.) Viren Rasquinha, (20.) William Xalxo, (23.) Arjun Halappa, (26.) Bhowath Chetri (gk), and (28.) Sandeel Michael. Head Coach: Rajinder Singh.

[edit]  Japan

(1.) Takahiko Yamabori, (2.) Naoya Iwadate, (3.) Kenji Asai, (4.) Makoto Karuo, (5.) Ryuji Furasato, (6.) Akira Takahashi, (7.) Kenichi Katayama , (8.) Naohiko Tobita, (9.) Kazuyuki Ozawa, (10.) Atsushi Takehara, (11.) Daisuke Hokaze, (12.) Akihiko Hirata, (14.) Mitsuru Ito, (15.) Jun Takahashi (gk), (16.) Yasuhiro Nobui (gk), (19.) Yasuhiro Kikkawa, and (21.) Kazuo Yoshida. Head Coach: Yoshinori Takahashi.

[edit]  Malaysia

(1.) Roslan Jamaluddin (gk), (2.) Muhamad Amin Rahim, (3.) Chua Boon Huat, (4.) Lugan Kali, (5.) Kuhan Shanmuganathan , (6.) Nor Azlan Bakar, (7.) Gobinathan Krishnamurthy, (8.) Jiwa Mohan, (9.) Mohammed Madzli Ikmar, (10.) Tajol Rosli Mohamed, (11.) Mohamed Rodhanizam Radzi, (12.) Keevan Raj Kalikavandan, (13.) Ismail Abu, (14.) Azlan Misron, (15.) Norazlan Rahim, (16.) Kumar Subramamiam (gk), (17.) Shanker Shanmugam, and (18.) Mohammed Sukri Abdul. Head Coach: Paul Lissek.

[edit]  Netherlands

(1.) Guus Vogels (gk), (2.) Bram Lomans, (3.) Geert-Jan Derikx, (4.) Erik Jazet, (5.) Rob Derikx, (6.) Floris Evers, (7.) Sander van der Weide), (8.) Ronald Brouwer, (9.) Piet-Hein Geeris, (10.) Taeke Taekema, (12.) Jeroen Delmee , (13.) Klaas Veering (gk), (14.) Teun de Nooijer, (15.) Karel Klaver, (18.) Rob Reckers, (19.) Matthijs Brouwer, (21.) Nick Meijer, and (22.) Egbert Ho. Head Coach: Terry Walsh.

[edit]  New Zealand

(1.) Simon Towns , (2.) Mitesh Patel, (3.) David Kosoof, (4.) Darren Smith, (5.) Wayne McIndoe, (6.) Dion Gosling, (7.) Blair Hopping, (8.) Dean Couzins, (10.) Ryan Archibald, (11.) Umesh Parag, (13.) Dharmesh Puna, (16.) Paul Woolford (gk), (17.) Kyle Pontifex (gk), (18.) Phillip Burrows, (19.) Hayden Shaw, (20.) James Nation, (22.) Lloyd Stephenson, and (24.) Gareth Brooks. Head Coach: Kevin Towns.

[edit]  Pakistan

(1.) Ahmed Alam (gk), (2.) Muhammad Nadeem , (3.) Kashif Jawwad, (4.) Ghazanfar Ali, (5.) Muhammad Saqlain, (6.) Waseem Ahmad, (7.) Dilawar Hussain, (8.) Rehan Butt, (9.) Sohail Abbas, (10.) Ali Raza, (11.) Shabbir Hussain, (12.) Salman Akbar (gk), (13.) Mudassar Ali Khan, (14.) Muhammad Sarwar, (15.) Zeeshan Ashraf, (16.) Shakeel Abbasi, and (17.) Adnan Maqsood. Head Coach: Roelant Oltmans.

[edit]  Poland

(1.) Marcin Trzaskawka (gk), (2.) Tomasz Dutkiewicz, (3.) Miroslaw Juszczak, (5.) Miroslaw Kluczynski, (6.) Sebastian Wladysiak, (7.) Marcin Grotowski, (8.) Zbigniew Juszczak, (9.) Dariusz Rachwalski, (11.) Marcin Nyckowiak, (12.) Arkadiusz Matuszak (gk), (13.) Slawomir Choczaj, (14.) Tomasz Choczaj, (15.) Piotr Mikula , (16.) Artur Mikula, (17.) Tomasz Gorny, (18.) Tomasz Marcinkowski, and (20.) Krzystof Kmiec. Head Coach: Jerzy Jóskowiak.

[edit]  South Africa

(1.) David Staniforth (gk), (3.) Ken Forbes, (4.) Craig Jackson , (5.) Craig Fulton, (6.) Bruce Jacobs, (7.) Gregg Clark, (8.) Iain Evans, (9.) Emile Smith, (11.) Clyde Abrahams, (13.) Steve Evans, (14.) Eric Rose-Innes, (16.) Marvin Bam, (17.) Reece Basson, (18.) Wayne Denne, (19.) Chris Hibbert (gk), (22.) Ian Symons, (25.) Ryan Ravenscroft, and (29.) Greg Nicol. Head Coach: Paul Revington.

[edit]  Spain

(1.) Bernardino Herrera (gk), (2.) Santi Freixa, (4.) Marc Garcia-Cascon, (5.) Francisco "Kiko" Fábregas , (6.) Miquel Codina, (7.) Juan Escarré, (8.) Alex Fábregas, (9.) Pablo Amat, (10.) Eduardo Tubau, (12.) Alberto Esteban, (13.) Ramón Alegre, (14.) Josep Sánchez, (15.) Víctor Sojo, (16.) Xavier Ribas, (17.) Albert Sala, (18.) Rodrigo Garza, (22.) Francisco Cortes (gk), and (23.) David Alegre. Head Coach: Maurits Hendriks.

[edit] Standings

[edit] Pool A

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Netherlands	13	5	4	1	0	23	6	+17
2.	Spain	13	5	4	1	0	18	5	+13
3.	Great Britain	6	5	2	0	3	9	7	+2
4.	South Africa	6	5	2	0	3	10	14	–4
5.	Poland	4	5	1	1	3	6	21	–15
6.	Japan	1	5	0	1	4	9	22	–13

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC +2)

• Tuesday March 2, 2004

Match 1 12:00
	South Africa	1–5 (1–1)	Netherlands	Umpires: David Gentles (AUS) Edmundo Saladino (ARG)

Match 3 14:00
	Poland	2–1 (0–0)	Great Britain	Umpires: Xavier Adell (ESP) Amarjit Singh (MAS)

Match 5 16:00
	Spain	6–1 (3–1)	Japan	Umpires: Sumesh Putra (CAN) Satinder Kumar (IND)

• Wednesday March 3, 2004

Match 7 14:00
	Japan	4–4 (2–3)	Poland	Umpires: Philip Schellekens (NED) Sumesh Putra (CAN)

Match 8 16:00
	South Africa	1–2 (1–1)	Spain	Umpires: Christian Bläsch (GER) Amarjit Singh (MAS)

Match 9 18:00
	Netherlands	3–0 (2–0)	Great Britain	Umpires: Juan Requena (ESP) John Wright (RSA)

• Friday March 5, 2004

Match 13 14:00
	Japan	0–1 (0–1)	Great Britain	Umpires: Philip Schellekens (NED) Faiz Muhammad Faizi (PAK)

Match 14 16:00
	Spain	2–2 (1–2)	Netherlands	Umpires: Richard Wolter (GER) Satinder Kumar (IND)

Match 15 18:00
	Poland	0–6 (0–4)	South Africa	Umpires: Juan Requena (ESP) Pedro Texeira (POR)

• Sunday March 7, 2004

Match 19 12:00
	Great Britain	1–2 (0–0)	Spain	Umpires: Christian Bläsch (GER) Pedro Texeira (POR)

Match 20 14:00
	South Africa	2–1 (0–1)	Japan	Umpires: Richard Wolter (GER) Edmundo Saladino (ARG)

Match 21 16:00
	Netherlands	4–0 (2–0)	Poland	Umpires: Han Jin-Soo (KOR) Juan Requena (ESP)

• Tuesday March 9, 2004

Match 26 12:30
	Japan	3–9 (1–2)	Netherlands	Umpires: Satinder Kumar (IND) Xavier Adell (ESP)

Match 28 14:30
	South Africa	0–6 (0–3)	Great Britain	Umpires: David Gentles (AUS) Han Jin-Soo (KOR)

Match 29 16:00
	Spain	6–0 (4–0)	Poland	Umpires: Amarjit Singh (MAS) Faiz Muhammad Faizi (PAK)

[edit] Pool B

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Pakistan	13	5	4	1	0	15	6	+9
2.	India	10	5	3	1	1	17	13	+4
3.	New Zealand	7	5	2	1	2	8	10	–2
4.	Belgium	6	5	1	3	1	7	8	–1
5.	Malaysia	4	5	1	1	3	7	10	–3
6.	Canada	1	5	0	1	4	12	19	–7

• Tuesday March 2, 2004

Match 2 12:30
	New Zealand	1–0 (1–0)	Malaysia	Umpires: Faiz Muhammad Faizi (PAK) John Wright (RSA)
	Hayden Shaw 3' (pc)

Match 4 14:30
	Pakistan	4–2 (0–0)	Canada	Umpires: Hamish Jamson (ENG) Han Jin-Soo (KOR)

Match 6 18:00
	India	1–1 (0–0)	Belgium	Umpires: Christian Bläsch (GER) Pedro Texeira (POR)

• Thursday March 4, 2004

Match 10 14:00
	Belgium	0–2 (0–0)	Pakistan	Umpires: Hamish Jamson (ENG) Xavier Adell (ESP)

Match 11 16:00
	Malaysia	3–5 (2–3)	India	Umpires: David Gentles (AUS) Edmundo Saladino (ARG)

Match 12 18:00
	Canada	2–4 (0–2)	New Zealand	Umpires: Richard Wolter (GER) Han Jin-Soo (KOR)

• Saturday March 6, 2004

Match 16 12:00
	New Zealand	2–2 (2–1)	Belgium	Umpires: Sumesh Putra (CAN) Xavier Adell (ESP)

Match 17 14:00
	Canada	2–3 (1–2)	Malaysia	Umpires: Hamish Jamson (ENG) David Gentles (AUS)

Match 18 16:00
	Pakistan	5–3 (3–1)	India	Umpires: John Wright (RSA) Amarjit Singh (MAS)

• Monday March 8, 2004

Match 22 12:00
	Belgium	2–2 (1–2)	Canada	Umpires: John Wright (RSA) Satinder Kumar (IND)

Match 23 14:00
	India	2–0 (1–0)	New Zealand	Umpires: Hamish Jamson (ENG) Sumesh Putra (CAN)

Match 24 16:00
	Malaysia	0–0 (0–0)	Pakistan	Umpires: Xavier Adell (ESP) Christian Bläsch (GER)

• Monday March 9, 2004

Match 25 12:00
	Canada	4–6 (0–4)	India	Umpires: Richard Wolter (GER) Philip Schellekens (NED)

Match 27 14:00
	Belgium	2–1 (1–1)	Malaysia	Umpires: Hamish Jamson (ENG) Sumesh Putra (CAN)

Match 30 18:00
	New Zealand	1–4 (1–2)	Pakistan	Umpires: Pedro Texeira (POR) John Wright (RSA)

[edit] Play-offs

[edit] Thursday March 11, 2004

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5th/8th place 11:30 Match 31
	Belgium	1–2 (1–2)	Great Britain	Umpires: Xavier Adell (ESP) Sumesh Putra (CAN)
	Marc Coudron 33' (pc)		Barry Middleton 7' Tom Bertram 8' (pc)

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9th/12th place 12:30 Match 32
	Poland	2–1 (1–0)	Canada	Umpires: Edmundo Saladino (ARG) Amarjit Singh (MAS)
	Zbigniew Juszczak 22' (pc) Zbigniew Juszczak 37' (pc)		Wayne Fernandes 46'

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5th/8th place 14:00 Match 33
	New Zealand	3–2 (1–2)	South Africa	Umpires: David Gentles (AUS) Christian Bläsch (GER)
	Hayden Shaw 16' (pc) Hayden Shaw 40' (pc) Gareth Brooks 41'		Greg Nicol 6' (pc) Greg Nicol 32' (pc)

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9th/12th place 15:00 Match 34
	Malaysia	3–2 (1–1)	Japan	Umpires: Juan Manuel Requena (ESP) Han Jin-Soo (KOR)
	Gobinathan Krishnamurthy 13' (pc) Kuhan Shanmuganathan 42' (pc) Azlan Misron 49'		Takahiko Yamabori 28' (pc) Kazuyuki Ozawa 38'

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1st/4th place 16:30 Match 35
	Netherlands	4–2 (2–1)	India	Umpires: John Wright (RSA) Richard Wolter (GER)
	Taeke Taekema 13' (pc) Taeke Taekema 34' (pc) Matthijs Brouwer 47' Matthijs Brouwer 65'		Gagan Ajit Singh 30' Deepak Thakur 42' (pc)

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1st/4th place 19:00 Match 36
	Pakistan	2–3 (1–1)	Spain	Umpires: Hamish Jamson (GBR) Satinder Kumar (IND)
	Shakeel Abassi 30' Mudassar Ali Khan 67'		Eduardo Tubau 14' (pc) Eduardo Tubau 39' Santi Freixa 68'

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[edit] Friday March 12, 2004

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11th/12th place 12:00 Match 37
	Canada	3–2 (2–0)	Japan	Umpires: Mohammed Faizi (PAK) Amarjit Singh (MAS)
	Connor Grimes 8' Ravi Kahlon 29' (pc) Ken Pereira 40' (pc)		Ryuji Furusato 42' Naohito Tobita 70' (pc)

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9th/10th place 14:30 Match 38
	Poland	4–2 (1–1)	Malaysia	Umpires: Han Jin-Soo (KOR) Pedro Texeira (POR)
	Tomasz Choczaj 20' Dariusz Rachwalski 41' Slawomir Choczaj 50' Krzystof Kmiec 60'		Boon Huat Chua 29' Tajol Rosli Mohamed 39'

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5th/6th place 17:00 Match 39
	Great Britain	3–2 (1–0)	New Zealand	Umpires: Philip Schellekens (NED) Edmundo Saladino (ARG)
	Ben Hawes 27' (pc) Graham Dunlop 43' Russell Garcia 46'		David Kosoof 49' (pc) Ryan Archibald 62' (pc)

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[edit] Saturday March 13, 2004

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7th/8th place 12:00 Match 40
	Belgium	2–2 (2–1)	South Africa	Umpires: Sumesh Putra (CAN) Christian Bläsch (GER)
	Charles Vandeweghe 2' Jean-Philippe Brulé 9' (pc)		Ian Evans 14' Gregg Clark 70'

		Penalty Strokes
	Jean-Philippe Brulé Y Marc Coudron Y Maxime Luyckx N Gilles Petre Y Xavier Reckinger N --- Jean-Philippe Brulé N	3–4	Y Greg Nicol Y Ian Symons NWayne Denne NSteve Evans Y Craig Fulton --- Y Ian Symons

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3th/4th place 14:30 Match 41
	India	2–4 (1–1)	Pakistan	Umpires: Hamish Jamson (GBR) Xavier Adell (ESP)
	Prabjoth Singh 22' Gagan Ajit Singh 59'		Muhammad Shabbir 15' Sohail Abbas 43' (pc) Shakeel Abassi 55' Kashif Jawwad 69'

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1st/2nd place 17:00 Match 42
	Netherlands	2–1 (0–1)	Spain	Umpires: John Wright (RSA) Satinder Kumar (IND)
	Teun de Nooijer 44' Ronald Brouwer 71' (golden goal)		Santi Freixa 31'

[edit] Final Rankings

RANK	TEAM
1.	Netherlands
2.	Spain
3.	Pakistan
4.	India
5.	Great Britain
6.	New Zealand
7.	South Africa
8.	Belgium
9.	Poland
10.	Malaysia
11.	Canada
12.	Japan

[edit] Remarks

• The first six (Netherlands, Spain, Pakistan, India, Great Britain, and New Zealand) qualified for this year's Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
• South Africa had to wait until the verdict of the CAS, after a protest by hosting nation Greece in February claiming a berth in the Olympics on grounds that they are the host country. The hosts had failed to win a place in the event despite being given two chances by the International Hockey Federation (FIH). The first option for Greece to gain a place at the Olympics was by qualifying for the 2003 Men's Hockey European Nations Cup, held last year in Barcelona. Greece did not qualify for this tournament but there was a second opportunity for the country, which required Greece to beat Canada, the lowest ranked in the Olympic qualifier, in a best of three play-off competition. Greece participated under protest but lost the series 2-0.
• On May 20, 2004, the FIH confirmed the participation of South Africa's Men's Team in the Athens Olympics after the Court of Arbitration for Sport turned down Greece's appeal. South Africa thus became the 12th and final team to qualify for the event.

[edit] Awards

Topscorers

1. Sohail Abbas (Pakistan) → 9 goals
2. Greg Nicol (South Africa) → 8 goals
3. Deepak Thakur (India) → 7 goals

Best Player

1. Francisco Fábregas (Spain)

Best Young Player

1. Floris Evers (Netherlands)

Best Goalkeeper

1. Simon Mason (Great Britain)

[edit] References

• Overview on FIH-site
• Rediff