Sport
Field Hockey
Also Known As Hockey Used as the plain unqualified name outside North America; Sweden and Finland instead use landhockey/maahockey (ground hockey) to distinguish it from ice hockey.
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The International Hockey Federation (FIH), the sport's global governing body, was founded on 7 January 1924 in Paris by Paul Leautey, who became its first president, in direct response to field hockey's own omission from that year's Olympic programme; the seven founding members were Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Spain and Switzerland. Stick-and-ball games have independent older traditions in many regions; the modern rules and international competition structure date to this 1924 founding.
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Origin YearMarks the Paris founding of the international governing federation, prompted by the sport own exclusion from the 1924 Olympic programme. Stick-and-ball games have much older, independent traditions worldwide that this date does not claim to cover. Originating RegionEngland, nineteenth century, where the modern codified sport and its first clubs and rules took shape; independent, older stick-and-ball traditions existed separately in ancient Egypt, Persia, Greece and Rome. 2 International Governing BodyInternational Hockey Federation (FIH), founded 7 January 1924 in Paris by Paul Leautey; headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland; merged with the International Federation of Women Hockey Associations in 1982. 1 Connections
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The sport is known simply as hockey in many countries. In Sweden and Finland, the term landhockey and maahockey respectively are used, translating to 'ground' hockey in opposition to the more standard ice hockey variant.
Associated With: Hurling, History
the games of hurling (Ireland) and knattleikr (Iceland), both team ball games involving sticks to drive a ball to the opponents' goal, date at least as far back as the Early Middle Ages
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In 1982, the FIH merged with the International Federation of Women's Hockey Associations (IFWHA), which had been founded in 1927 by Australia, Denmark, England, Ireland, Scotland, South Africa, the United States, and Wales.
Wikipedia: Field hockey at the 1908 Summer Olympics
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At the 1908 Summer Olympics, a field hockey tournament was contested for the first time.
Wikipedia: Field hockey at the 1928 Summer Olympics
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The 1928 Summer Olympics saw the third field hockey tournament at Olympics.
Wikipedia: Field hockey at the 1932 Summer Olympics
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The field hockey tournament at the 1932 Summer Olympics was the fourth edition of the field hockey event at the Summer Olympic Games.
Wikipedia: Field hockey at the 1936 Summer Olympics
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The field hockey tournament at the 1936 Summer Olympics was the fifth edition of the field hockey event at the Summer Olympics.
Wikipedia: Field hockey at the 1948 Summer Olympics
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The field hockey tournament at the 1948 Summer Olympics was the sixth edition of the field hockey event at the Summer Olympics.
Wikipedia: Field hockey at the 1952 Summer Olympics
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The men's field hockey tournament at the 1952 Summer Olympics was the seventh edition of the field hockey event for men at the Summer Olympics.
Wikipedia: Field hockey at the 1956 Summer Olympics
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The men's field hockey tournament at the 1956 Summer Olympics was the eighth edition of the field hockey event for men at the Summer Olympics.
Wikipedia: Field hockey at the 1960 Summer Olympics
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The field hockey tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy was contested from August 26 to September 9, with sixteen participating teams.
Wikipedia: Field hockey at the 1964 Summer Olympics
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The field hockey tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics was the 10th edition of the field hockey event for men at the Summer Olympic Games.
Wikipedia: Field hockey at the 1968 Summer Olympics
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The men's field hockey tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics was the 11th edition of the field hockey event for men at the Summer Olympics.
Wikipedia: Field hockey at the 1972 Summer Olympics
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The field hockey tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics was the 12th edition of the field hockey event at the Summer Olympics.
Wikipedia, 1980 Summer Olympics
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impacted the competitiveness of swimming, track and field, boxing, basketball, diving, field hockey and equestrian sports
Wikipedia, 1984 Summer Olympics
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field hockey
Wikipedia, 1992 Summer Olympics
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Field hockey (2)
Wikipedia, 1996 Summer Olympics
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Field hockey (2)
Wikipedia, Ice Hockey
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It draws influence from shinty which originated in Scotland, as well as field hockey which originated in England.
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The name seems to be originated from the French term for field hockey
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Sagol kangjei was one of three forms of hockey in Manipur, the other ones being field hockey (called khong kangjei) and wrestling-hockey (called mukna kangjei).
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