Field hockey at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

Women's field hockey
at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Tournament details
Host country	Soviet Union
City	Moscow
Dates	25–31 July 1980
Teams	6
Venue(s)	Minor Arena of Dynamo Stadium and Young Pioneers Stadium
Final positions
Champions	Zimbabwe (1st title)
Runner-up	Czechoslovakia
Third place	Soviet Union
Tournament statistics
Matches played	15
Goals scored	49 (3.27 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Natella Krasnikova Patricia McKillop (6 goals)
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The women's field hockey tournament at the 1980 Summer Olympics was the first edition of the field hockey event for women at the Summer Olympic Games. It was held over a six-day period beginning on 25 July, and culminating on 31 July 1980. Games were played across two venues in Moscow, at the Minor Arena at Dynamo Stadium and Young Pioneers Stadium.^[1]

Zimbabwe won the gold medal finishing top of the pool at the conclusion of the pool stage. Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union won the silver and bronze respectively, finishing in second and third place in the pool.^[2]

Qualification

In 1980, there was an International Federation of Women's Hockey Associations (IFWHA), separate from the predominantly male Fédération Internationale de Hockey (FIH). Because the FIH was the international federation affiliated to the International Olympic Committee, it supervised the Olympic tournament.

The FIH and IFWHA agreed that qualification for the Olympics would be decided by a joint FIH–IFWHA committee based on the results over the previous two years, including the 1978 (FIH) and 1979 (IFWHA) women's world championships.^[3]

Five teams qualified to join the host Soviet team: the Netherlands, West Germany, the United States, New Zealand, and Great Britain^[4] (taking the place of Wales, England, and Scotland, who had finished 5th, 6th, and 7th respectively in the 1979 tournament^[5]).

However, all five of these teams boycotted to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The United States and West Germany boycotted completely, and while New Zealand, Great Britain and the Netherlands competed in other sports, their hockey governing bodies pulled out.

This threw the tournament into chaos. Subsequently, the organising committee sent out invitations to other countries,^[6] though Ireland declined their invitation.^[7]

Squads

Results

Pool

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
	Zimbabwe	5	3	2	0	13	4	+9	8
	Czechoslovakia	5	3	1	1	10	5	+5	7
	Soviet Union	5	3	0	2	11	5	+6	6
4	India	5	2	1	2	9	6	+3	5
5	Austria	5	2	0	3	6	11	−5	4
6	Poland	5	0	0	5	0	18	−18	0

Pool matches

25 July 1980 11:00 Poland  0–4  Zimbabwe Report Chase (1) Davies (1) McKillop (1) Watson (1) Stadium: Young Pioneers Stadium

25 July 1980 12:45 Austria  0–2  India Report Fernandes (1) Saini (1) Stadium: Young Pioneers Stadium

25 July 1980 17:00 Soviet Union  2–0  Czechoslovakia Buzunova (1) Krasnikova (1) Report Stadium: Young Pioneers Stadium

27 July 1980 13:00 India  4–0  Poland Saini (1) Sharma (2) Sonir (1) Report Stadium: Minor Arena, Dynamo Stadium

27 July 1980 14:45 Zimbabwe  2–2  Czechoslovakia Chase (1) McKillop (1) Report Hubáčková (1) Kadlecová (1) Stadium: Minor Arena, Dynamo Stadium

27 July 1980 17:00 Soviet Union  0–2  Austria Report Lorenz (1) Pistauer (1) Stadium: Minor Arena, Dynamo Stadium

28 July 1980 13:00 India  1–2  Czechoslovakia Sonir (1) Report Hubáčková (1) Kyselicová (1) Stadium: Young Pioneers Stadium

28 July 1980 14:45 Austria  3–0  Poland Kindler (1) Porsch (2) Report Stadium: Young Pioneers Stadium

28 July 1980 17:00 Soviet Union  0–2  Zimbabwe Report McKillop (2) Stadium: Minor Arena, Dynamo Stadium

30 July 1980 15:30 Soviet Union  6–0  Poland Buzunova (2) Krasnikova (4) Report Stadium: Minor Arena, Dynamo Stadium

30 July 1980 17:15 India  1–1  Zimbabwe Saini (1) Report Chase (1) Stadium: Minor Arena, Dynamo Stadium

30 July 1980 17:15 Austria  0–5  Czechoslovakia Report Čermáková (3) Hájková (1) Kadlecová (1) Stadium: Young Pioneers Stadium

31 July 1980 10:00 Poland  0–1  Czechoslovakia Report Lahodová (1) Stadium: Minor Arena, Dynamo Stadium

31 July 1980 11:45 Austria  1–4  Zimbabwe Kindler (1) Report Chick (1) Cowley (1) McKillop (2) Stadium: Minor Arena, Dynamo Stadium

31 July 1980 15:30 Soviet Union  3–1  India Buzunova (2) Krasnikova (1) Report Saini (1) Stadium: Minor Arena, Dynamo Stadium

Medal Winning Squads

Gold Medal	Silver Medal	Bronze Medal
Zimbabwe (ZIM)	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	Soviet Union (URS)
Arlene Boxhall Liz Chase Sandra Chick Gillian Cowley Patricia Davies Sarah English Maureen George Ann Grant Susan Huggett Patricia McKillop Brenda Phillips Christine Prinsloo Sonia Robertson Anthea Stewart Helen Volk Linda Watson	Milada Blažková Jiřina Čermáková Jiřina Hájková Berta Hrubá Ida Hubáčková Jiřina Kadlecová Jarmila Králíčková Jiřina Křížová Alena Kyselicová Jana Lahodová Květa Petříčková Viera Podhányiová Iveta Šranková Marie Sýkorová Marta Urbanová Lenka Vymazalová	Liailia Akhmerova Natalia Buzunova Natalia Bykova Tatiana Embakhtova Nadezhda Filippova Liudmila Frolova Lidia Glubokova Nelli Gorbatkova Elena Guryeva Galina Inzhuvatova Alina Kham Natella Krasnikova Nadezhda Ovechkina Tatiana Shvyganova Galina Viuzhanina Valentina Zazdravnykh

Statistics

Final rankings

1. Zimbabwe
2. Czechoslovakia
3. Soviet Union
4. India
5. Austria
6. Poland

Goalscorers

6 Goals

5 Goals

4 Goals

3 Goals

2 Goals

1 Goal

References

External links

• Official FIH website

This page was last edited on 8 September 2023, at 20:22