Following the conclusion of Hockey on the Pan American Video games and the African Hockey Street to Paris 2024, 5 males’s and girls’s groups have now gained direct qualification to the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 as Continental Champions, along with the hosts France. An additional 16 males’s and girls’s groups have concurrently secured their place on the FIH Hockey Olympic Qualifiers 2024, so the swimming pools for these qualification tournaments have now been revealed.
The 16 groups per gender have been divided into two teams, with 8 groups touring to every location: Muscat, Oman and Valencia, Spain for the lads, and Ranchi, India and Valencia, Spain for the ladies.
The 8 males’s groups that can compete in Muscat, Oman are: Nice Britain, Germany, New Zealand, Malaysia, Pakistan, Canada, Chile and China
The 8 males’s groups that can compete in Valencia, Spain are: Belgium, Spain, Korea, Eire, Japan, Austria, Egypt and Ukraine
The 8 girls’s groups that can compete in Ranchi, India are: Germany, India, New Zealand, Japan, Chile, United States, Italy and Czech Republic
The 8 girls’s groups that can compete in Valencia, Spain are: Belgium, Nice Britain, Spain, Korea, Eire, Canada, Malaysia and Ukraine
The boys’s and girls’s groups have been divided into the 2 teams on the idea of their world rating at midnight on 5 November 2023, as soon as all Continental Championships had been accomplished (based mostly on the predetermined guidelines talked about within the FIH Qualification System for the Paris Olympics, which might be accessed right here.)
The groups that end within the top-3 of every of the 4 FIH Hockey Olympic Qualifiers 2024 tournaments will seal their qualification to the Olympic Video games Paris 2024.
The FIH Hockey Olympic Qualifiers 2024 shall be performed between 13-21 January 2024. Please go to Olympics.Hockey for extra particulars concerning the qualifiers, in addition to hockey on the Olympic Video games Paris 2024.
