From 24 September to 7 October, Hockey will likely be performed on the Asian Video games, with the stakes going past the gold, silver and bronze medals, because the winners (women and men) will be part of France, Australia and Netherlands in qualifying to the Olympic Video games Paris 2024.
12 males’s groups and 10 ladies’s groups will likely be competing in Hockey on the Asian Video games 2023. The groups will likely be divided and positioned into two swimming pools of; 5 groups per pool within the ladies’s competitors, and 6 groups per pool within the males’s competitors. On the finish of the pool stage the 2 highest rating groups in every pool will proceed to the semi-finals, whereas the opposite groups, primarily based on their pool standings, will play within the Fifth-Tenth (ladies’s) and Fifth-Twelfth (males’s) classification matches.
The groups that win the gold medals on the Asian Video games 2023 will seal their berths on the Olympic Video games Paris 2024. The groups classifying from 2nd to Fifth within the ladies’s match and the groups classifying from 2nd to sixth within the males’s match, will get a second alternative to qualify for the Olympics, on the FIH Hockey Olympic Qualifiers 2024.
Within the males’s competitors India, Japan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Singapore and Uzbekistan are positioned in Pool A. Korea, Malaysia, China, Oman, Thailand and Indonesia will compete in Pool B. The boys’s matches get underway on 24 September, with Malaysia taking up Thailand within the first contest at 09:00 (native time). The medal matches in males’s hockey will likely be performed on 6 October. The whole schedule for the lads’s competitors together with the extremely anticipated matches between India and Pakistan, Malaysia and Korea, India and Japan, could be discovered right here.
Males’s hockey was first performed on the 1958 Asian Video games and has been performed in each version since. The 2023 Video games will see males’s hockey be performed for the seventeenth straight time on the Asian Video games. India, Pakistan and Malaysia have appeared in all 16 editions up to now and can compete within the seventeenth version ranging from 24 September.
Pakistan are probably the most profitable workforce within the historical past of Males’s Hockey on the Asian Video games, having claimed the gold medal on 8 events. Korea are the second most profitable workforce with 4 gold medals, whereas India are third with three gold medals to their identify. Japan will come into the occasion because the defending champions, having claimed their first gold medal within the 2018 Asian Video games.
Within the ladies’s competitors India, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Korea and Singapore are positioned in Pool A. Japan, China, Indonesia, Kazakhstan and Thailand will compete in Pool B. The ladies’s matches get underway on 25 September, with Korea taking up Singapore within the first contest at 10:15 (native time). The medal matches in ladies’s hockey will likely be performed on 7 October. The whole schedule for the ladies’s competitors together with the extremely anticipated matches between India and Korea, China and Japan, could be discovered right here.
Girls’s hockey was first launched within the 1982 version of the Asian Video games and has been performed in each version of the occasion since. The 2023 Video games will mark the eleventh look of ladies’s hockey on the Asian Video games. India, Japan and Korea have appeared in all 10 editions of the occasion up to now and can compete within the eleventh version ranging from 25 September.
Korea are probably the most profitable workforce within the historical past of ladies’s hockey on the Asian Video games, with 5 gold medals. China are the second most profitable workforce with 3 gold medals, whereas India and Japan have received one gold medal every. Japan come into the 2023 Asian Video games because the defending champions, having received the gold medal on the 2018 Asian Video games in Indonesia.
A complete of 12 groups, in every of the lads’s and girls’s classes, will compete in Hockey on the Olympic Video games. The hosts France gained direct qualification, leaving 11 spots up for grabs. Australia (women and men) from Oceania and Netherlands (women and men) from Europe have sealed their qualification as continental champions. Aside from the winners of the Asian Video games, continental championships within the Americas and Africa will likely be held within the buildup to the Olympic Video games the place the winner of every of those two occasions can even achieve direct qualification to the upcoming Olympic Video games. The FIH Hockey Olympic Qualifiers 2024, which will likely be held in January 2024, present a second alternative for groups to qualify for the remaining 6 spots on the Olympic Video games.
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