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FIH: Sahara WorldHockey Team Rankings Updated  x14
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December 17, 2004 
World Hockey
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Germany tops mens ranking
Following the Samsung Hockey Champions Trophy, which concluded in Lahore, Pakistan last weekend, the Sahara WorldHockey Team Rankings are updated as follows:
New Ranking - Dec 2004 (following Samsung Hockey Champions Trophy)
1. Germany
2. Australia
3. Netherlands
4. Pakistan
5. India
6. Spain
7. Korea
8. New Zealand
9. England
10. Argentina
Previous Ranking: Sep 2004 (following Olympics)
1. Australia
2. Germany
3. Netherlands
4. Pakistan
5. India
6. Korea
7. Spain
8. England
9. New Zealand
10. Argentina
Australia pays the penalty of its non-participation from the Samsung Hockey Champions Trophy, dropping from 1st place to 2nd. Despite only finishing 5th in that event, Germany climbs to 1st place. Both New Zealand and Samsung Hockey Champions Trophy gold medallists Spain, improve their ranking by one place.
Netherlands women overtake Las Leonas
Following the BDO Hockey Champions Trophy, which took place in Rosario, Argentina in November, updated Sahara WorldHockey Team Rankings are as follows:
New Ranking (following BDO Hockey Champions Trophy)
1. Netherlands
2. Argentina
3. Australia
4. China
5. Germany
6. New Zealand
7. Korea
8. England
9. Spain
10. Japan
Previous Ranking: Sep 2004 (following Olympics)
1. Argentina
2. Netherlands
3. Australia
4. China
5. Germany
6. Korea
7. New Zealand
8. England
9. Spain
10. Japan
Netherlands gold medal at the BDO Hockey Champions Trophy gains 1st spot, overtaking Las Leonas, who were bronze medallists. New Zealand gains an improvement of one position from 6th placing at the BDO Hockey Champions Trophy, at the expense of Korea.
Full Sahara WorldHockey Team Rankings are available at www.WorldHockey.org.
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namelessderro
12-17-2004 10:42 pm
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wat the?
how is it that germany managed to jump ahead of australia even though they finished fifth at champions trophy, while the netherlands who finished econd stayed in the same spot?
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yen
12-18-2004 1:55 am
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someone plese tell me
1. where do indian womens team stand,
2. spain is always in top 4 in mens since 1998 so why are they 6 th or 7th.
3.where is Malaysia , USA
4. WHO IS ENGLAND , WHEN GB PLAYS OLYMPICS
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??
12-19-2004 7:38 pm
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What?!
How can India be ranked above Spain??
Spain were 4th at the Olympics & 1st at the Champions Trophy. India was 7th & 4th respectively. Is there not a greater weighting for the Olympics, which is the most important tournament in the world..
These don't seem to have any relevance to current form at all... who really cares anyway?
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scottish
12-20-2004 8:20 am
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i dont see where any of this has come from????? and i also believe that there has (yet again!!!) been a bad piace of journalism here being that GB is made up of MORE THAN ENGLAND!!!!!!!!!! this annoys me as for the 1st time in a long time there has been 3 scotsman in the olympic GB team. as everyone knows the GB squad has always been heavily weighted towards english players undeservibly. this is why scotland and GB recently lost one of the best players of all time due to bias selection for the olympic squad, therefore scotland being punished for it. although he was very unlucky in not getting his dutch visa in time for the olympics. whoever wrote this please take note that there is more than one country involved in the GREAT BRITAIN team!!!!! (being why they are not called england in the olympics!!)
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David Underdown
12-20-2004 9:03 am
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Scottish,
So far as rankings etc go, for GB to gain automatic qualification (obviously if automatic qualification doesn't happen, then GB enters the qualifying tournament) for the Olympics depends on the performance of England (since they are the highest ranking of the home nations). Since GB only exists around the time of the Olympics, then the FIH assigns any points gained by GB to England on the same basis, since it is also the case that it is England's position in the Rankings that determines GB's seeding in the pools.
As for where the rankings come from, there are more details on the FIH website.
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Chip
12-20-2004 11:13 am
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When GB were reliant on undeserved English players they did quite well. Thanks Scottish guys for taking GB/England to the lowest ranking in over 20 years!!!
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scottish
12-20-2004 4:36 pm
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england is only the highest ranking home nation because they get the points of GB. i didnt say that all the english players didnt deserve to be there, what i meant was that scottish players have always had to deal with english coaches and so on meaning there was never 100% fair selection and lets face it, its never going to be fair with more than one country involved. and i am also not only talking about this year, take chris southerland in 1988 for example, he was left out of the olympics because he missed 1 training session due to playing in a dutch final for his club. and the same also hapend to lawrence docherty which resulted in him leaving for holland which meant his home country(scotland) suffering too. i'm not just a winging scot but a guy with an opinion so please look past my origin and look at these examples. no englishmen were dropped for this!
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Simon
12-23-2004 6:11 am
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Australia not No.1
I agree..... How is it that Australia is not No.1?
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M
12-23-2004 8:37 am
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'88 Why does that year seem familiar ?
So we dropped a sweaty for the 88 olympics and won gold with a bunch of undeserving sassenachs. Perhaps we'd still be doing as well if the same stringent selection policies were in place. But well done to Pappin for representing scotland in Seoul, all 25 seconds of his participation was of exceptional quality.
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Asghar Khan
12-27-2004 2:13 pm
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Spain ranking !
Spain should be ranked above Pakistan .
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Shenzi
12-27-2004 6:32 pm
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Pakistan should be ranked behind Spain too. Infact Spain are more than a match for both Holland & Germany. India are not worthy of 5th place. India have lost to several teams ranked lower eg NZealand, Malaysia Belgium, Ireland & today they lost to France, let alone Spain!!
My rankings are:
1. Australia
2. Spain
3. Holland
4. Germany
5. Pakistan
6. S Korea
7. N Zealand
8. Argentina
9. India
10. England
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Divee
12-30-2004 1:58 am
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Shenze
You are very generous as I would have placed England no higher than 14th and most certainly not in the top 10.
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Ashraf Butt
12-30-2004 5:51 am
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spain in ranking
I am agreed with both Shenzi and asghar khan that Spain should be ranked above both India and Pakistan and how the germany stood first? I think that australia should be on the top followed by holland and spain.
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