The England national field hockey team represents England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 in international field hockey

Field hockey

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. The team finished in fifth-place in the 2006 Men's Hockey World Cup

2006 Men's Hockey World Cup

The 2006 Hockey World Cup for men is the 11th edition of the Hockey World Cup. It held from September 6 to September 17, 2006 in Mönchengladbach, Germany....

 in Mönchengladbach

Mönchengladbach

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, Germany

Germany

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.

England won the gold medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics

Field hockey at the 1908 Summer Olympics

At the 1908 Summer Olympics, a field hockey tournament was contested for the first time. Six teams entered from three states. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was represented by a team from each of the four home nations: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales...

 in London

London

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. Their best placing in a World Cup

Hockey World Cup

The Hockey World Cup is an international field hockey competition organised by the International Hockey Federation . The tournament was started in 1971...

 was as runners-up to champions Australia in 1986, which was also held in London. They won the bronze medal at the inaugural Commonwealth Games

Commonwealth Games

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 field hockey tournament in 1998, in Kuala Lumpur

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, Malaysia.

• 1908
  Field hockey at the 1908 Summer Olympics
  At the 1908 Summer Olympics, a field hockey tournament was contested for the first time. Six teams entered from three states. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was represented by a team from each of the four home nations: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales...
  
   – Gold

(In 1908, Great Britain

British Olympic Association

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 entered four teams into the olympic hockey tournament - England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.