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Australia: Disappointing Hockeyroos down Kiwis

Australia

August 26, 2004
The Age, Australia
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The Hockeyroos have equalled their worst finish at the Olympics by finishing fifth in the women's hockey competition in Athens.

Australia defeated New Zealand 3-0 in their classification match.

The Hockeyroos entered the tournament chasing their third straight Olympic title but ended up fifth as they did at the 1992 Barcelona Games.

Australia has won three Olympic competitions since women's hockey was introduced at the 1984 Los Angeles Games.

Julie Towers scored in the first half while captain Katrina Powell capped off her final international outing with a double in the second term.

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Bairnsadle Boy 08-26-2004 10:50 am	Report this post
`Who ever wrote this article needs to do a bit more research. Womens hockey was introduced in the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. We didn't go due to the boycott. The event was won by Zimbabwe`

Correction 08-26-2004 11:57 am	Report this post
`1984 is correct The article is correct, women's field hockey was introduced in Los Angeles in 1984, check www.worldhockey.org.`

Sam 08-26-2004 1:41 pm	Report this post
`Women's hockey was introduced in Moscow 1980. Zimbabwe who were invited the week before the tournament started (as all the major hockey nations boycotted the event) were unbeaten. Czechoslovakia were second with the USSR taking the bronze. The tournament was played as a round robin.`

Nick 09-04-2004 9:27 pm	Report this post
`The first women's Olympic match was played in 1980 im Moscow between Zimbabwe and Poland. Zimbabwe won 4-0 with the first women's Olympic goal being scored by Pat McKillop of Zimbabwe, who was also the top scorer at those Olympics with 6 goals. The placings that Sam states are correct, but with also Austria, Poland and India playing-making a total of a meagre 6 teams.`

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