The Field Hockey Tournament

Field hockey

Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

at the 1995 Pan American Games

1995 Pan American Games

The 12th Pan American Games were held in Mar del Plata, Argentina, from March 12 to March 26, 1995. After 44 years, this was the Pan American Games first return to the country that hosted the first Games, in 1951.-Overview:...

was held from March 12 to March 25 in Mar del Plata

Mar del Plata

Mar del Plata is an Argentine city located on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, south of Buenos Aires. Mar del Plata is the second largest city of Buenos Aires Province. The name "Mar del Plata" had apparently the sense of "sea of the Río de la Plata region" or "adjoining sea to the Río de la Plata"...

, Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

. It served as a qualification tournament for the 1996 Summer Olympics

Field hockey at the 1996 Summer Olympics

The Olympic Field Hockey Tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States, was held in the Morris Brown College Stadium and Panther Stadium The event ran from Saturday July 20 to Friday August 2, 1996.-Men's tournament:GOLD Netherlands...

 in Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...

. The number one earned a ticket for the Olympic tournament. The men competed for the eighth time at the Pan Americans, the women for the third time.

Results

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Standings

39

28

16

15

Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.		11	6	5	1	0	42	3
2.		10	6	4	2	0	31	3
3.		8	6	4	0	2	26	10
4.		7	6	3	1	2	22	7
5.		4	6	2	0	4	11	29	–18
6.		2	6	1	0	5	8	19	–11
7.		0	6	0	0	6	1	73	–72

Bronze Medal Match

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Gold Medal Match

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Final Ranking

RANK	TEAM
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5.
6.
7.

• Maximiliano Caldas
• Diego Chiodo
  Diego Chiodo
  Diego Chiodo is a former field hockey player from Argentina. He competed for his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics, where he finished in ninth place with the national squad.-References:*...
  
  
• Alejandro Doherty
  Alejandro Doherty
  Alejandro L. Doherty Horan is a former field hockey player from Argentina. He competed for his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics, where he finished in ninth place with the national squad. He made his Olympic debut at the 1988 Summer Olympics.-References:**...
  
  
• Fernando Falchetto
• Gustavo Keenan
• Patricio Keenan
• Jorge Lombi
  Jorge Lombi
  Jorge Maximiliano Lombi Etulain is a field hockey player from Argentina, who made his debut for the national squad in 1991 in a friendly against Spain. He's the penalty corner specialist, who currently plays for Club de Campo in Madrid, Spain...
  
  

• Julian Lavagno
• Pablo Lombi
  Pablo Lombi
  Pablo Enrique Lombi Etulain is a former field hockey player from Argentina. He competed for his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics, where he finished in ninth place with the national squad. He made his Olympic debut at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Lombi is the older...
  
  
• Gabriel Minadeo
  Gabriel Minadeo
  Gabriel Minadeo Ramírez is a male former field hockey player from Argentina. He competed for his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988....
  
  
• Pablo Moreira (gk)
• Fernando Moresi
  Fernando Moresi
  Fernando Moresi Vergara is a former field hockey player from Argentina. He competed for his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics, where he finished in ninth place with the national squad. He twice won a medal at the Pan American Games.-References:*...
  
  
• Edgardo Pailos
  Edgardo Pailos
  Edgardo Pailos Rugna is a former field hockey player from Argentina. He competed for his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics, where he finished in ninth place with the national squad. He won the gold medal at the 1995 Pan American Games, and made his Olympic debut at the 1988 Summer...
  
  
• Rodolfo Pérez
  Rodolfo Pérez
  Rodolfo Adrian Pérez Gentile is a former field hockey player from Argentina. He twice competed for his native country at the Summer Olympics: in 1992 and 1996. Pérez finished in ninth and eleventh place with the national squad....
  
  
• Jorge Querejeta
  Jorge Querejeta
  Jorge Querejeta Capella is a former field hockey player from Argentina. He competed for his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics, where he finished in ninth place with the national squad. He won the gold medal at the 1995 Pan American Games.-References:*...
  
  

• Carlos Regueti
• Rodolfo Schmitt
  Rodolfo Schmitt
  Rodolfo Schmitt Schefelis is a former field hockey player from Argentina. He competed for his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics, where his national squad finished in ninth. He won the gold medal at the 1995 Pan American Games....
  
  

• Head Coach

Unknown

• Alan Brahmst
  Alan Brahmst
  Alan Brahmst is a former international and Olympic field hockey player from Canada.Brahmst earned his first international cap in 1986 for the Men's National Team against the Netherlands in Amstelveen...
  
  
• Patrick Burrows
  Patrick Burrows
  Patrick Burrows is a former field hockey defender from Canada. He played in the Summer Olympics in 1984 and 1988, and was an assistant coach for Canada's 2000 Olympic team. Burrows was also on Canada's gold-medal winning Pan American Games teams in 1983 and 1987...
  
  
• Paul Chohan
  Paul Chohan
  Paul Satinder "Bubli" Chohan is a former field hockey player from Canada.-International senior competitions:* 1975 – Pan American Games, Mexico * 1976 – Olympic Games, Montreal...
  
  
• Robin D'Abreo
  Robin D'Abreo
  Robin D'Abreo is a Canadian field hockey player, who earned his first international cap in 1993 against France....
  
  
• John DeSouza
• Rob Edamura
• Chris Gifford
  Chris Gifford
  Christopher Gifford is a former field hockey striker from Canada, who currently is working as a store manager...
  
  

• Minder Gill
• Andrew Griffiths
  Andrew Griffiths
  Andrew Griffiths is a former field hockey forward from Canada, who started playing hockey at age eight in Bermuda....
  
  
• Doug Harris
• Hari Kant
  Hari Kant
  Hari Kant is a former field hockey goalkeeper from Canada.Kant started to play in the 1981 Ontario Summer Games, at age eleven, when opportunity to travel provided ample incentive to participate...
  
   (gk)
• Peter Milkovich
  Peter Milkovich
  Peter Milkovich is a Canadian field hockey player and coach.-References:* *...
  
  
• Ken Pereira
  Ken Pereira
  Kenneth Pereira is a field hockey midfielder from Canada. He was a member of the Canadian field hockey team at the Summer Olympics in 2000 and 2008. Pereira has also been on several Commonwealth Games and Pan American Games teams, winning two gold medals in the latter competition in 1999 and 2007...
  
  
• Rick Roberts
  Rick Roberts (hockey player)
  Rick Roberts is a former field hockey defender from Canada.Roberts started playing hockey in Victoria at age thirteen. He is nicknamed "Rico". He is married to former Women's National Team player Lisa Faust...
  
  

• Andre Rousseau
  André Rousseau
  André Rousseau, , was an entrepreneur and politician in Quebec. He was the first to occupy the position of Minister of Industry and Commerce from July 5, 1960 to December 5, 1962 under the first Government of Jean Lesage. In 1950, Mr...
  
  
• Rob Short
  Rob Short
  Rob Short is a Canadian field hockey player.- Career :Short played his first international senior tournament in 1995, at the Pan American Games in Mar del Plata. Highlights include the 1998 World Cup in The Netherlands where the Canadian team finished 8th with Rob scoring 4 goals in the 7 games...
  
  

• Head Coach

Shiaz Virjee

• Larry Amar
  Larry Amar
  Larry Amar is a former field hockey midfielder from the United States, who was the captain of the national team that finished twelfth at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. Amar also earned two consecutive USA Field Hockey Athlete of the Year awards in 1994 and 1995.- External links :*...
  
  
• Nick Butcher
• Steve Danielson
  Steve Danielson
  Steven Patrick Danielson is currently an assistant coach for the Stanford Field Hockey team. Formerly a field hockey midfielder, he has competed for the United States since 1989 in indoor and outdoor field hockey...
  
  
• Jeff Horrocks
• Steve Jennings
• Paul Lewis
  Paul Lewis (field hockey)
  Paul Snowden Lewis is a former field hockey midfield player from Australia, who was a member of the Men's National Hockey Team. He twice won a medal at the Summer Olympics. In his youth, Paul played for Forestville hockey club in South Australia, and attended Unley High School...
  
  
• Olaf Maack

• Ben Maruquin
  Ben Maruquin
  Benjamin Maruquin is a former field hockey sweeper from the United States, who finished twelfth with the national team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia....
  
  
• Marq Mellor
  Marq Mellor
  Marq Mellor is a former field hockey forward from the United States, who finished twelfth with the national team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.-References:*...
  
  
• Jon O'Haire
• John O'Neill
• Otto Steffers
  Otto Steffers
  Otto Steffers is a former field hockey defender from the United States, who finished twelfth with the national team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.-References:*...
  
  
• Phil Sykes
• Nigel Traverso

• Taylor Trickle
• Steve Wagner

• Head Coach

Lenny McCaigue

Results

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Standings

28

25

9

Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.		11	6	5	1	0	29	1
2.		11	6	5	1	0	26	1
3.		8	6	4	0	2	14	5
4.		4	6	2	0	4	5	16	–11
5.		3	6	1	1	4	5	11	–6
6.		3	6	1	1	4	2	14	–12
7.		0	6	0	0	6	0	37	–37

Bronze Medal Match

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Gold Medal Match

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Final Ranking

RANK	TEAM
4.
5.
6.
7.

• Magdalena Aicega
  Magdalena Aicega
  María Magdalena Aicega Amicarelli is a field hockey defender from Argentina, who won the silver medal with the Women's National Team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Nicknamed Magui, she first represented her native country at the Junior World Cup in 1993 in Barcelona, Spain,...
  
  
• Valeria Almada
• Mariana Arnal (gk)
• María Camardón
• Julieta Castellán
  Julieta Castellán
  Julieta Castellán Goytia is a retired female field hockey player from Argentina. She was a member of the Women's National Team that competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics, after having won the gold medal the previous year at the 1995 Pan American Games.- References :...
  
  
• María Paula Castelli
• Silvina Corvalán

• Anabel Gambero
  Anabel Gambero
  Anabel Gambero Erdozain is a former field hockey defender from Argentina, who won the silver medal with the women's national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.-References:* *...
  
  
• Marisa López
  Marisa López
  Marisa A. López is a retired female field hockey player from Argentina. She was a member of the Women's National Team that finished in seventh place at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea after having won the gold medal the previous year at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis.-...
  
  
• Sofía MacKenzie
• Karina Masotta
  Karina Masotta
  Paula Karina Masotta Biagetti is a field hockey player from Argentina, who won the silver medal with the national women's hockey team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.-References:*...
  
  
• Vanina Oneto
  Vanina Oneto
  Vanina Paula Oneto is a former field hockey striker from Argentina, who won the silver medal with the national women's hockey team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.-References:...
  
  
• Gabriela Pando
  Gabriela Pando
  Gabriela Pando is a retired female field hockey player from Argentina. She was a member of the Women's National Team that competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics, after having won the gold medal the previous year at the 1995 Pan American Games....
  
  
• María Perrone

• Jorgelina Rimoldi
  Jorgelina Rimoldi
  Jorgelina Rimoldi Puig is a field hockey player from Argentina, who won the silver medal with the national women's hockey team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.-References:*...
  
  
• Gabriela Sánchez
  Gabriela Sánchez (field hockey)
  Gabriela Edith Sánchez Grossi is a retired female field hockey player from Argentina. She twice was a member of the Women's National Team that competed at the Summer Olympics: in 1988 and 1996. Sánchez also twice won a gold medal at the Pan American Games: 1987 and 1995.- References :...
  
  

• Head Coach

Rodolfo Mendoza

• Dana Anderson
  Dana Anderson
  Dana Anderson is a former field hockey player from Canada.Anderson earned 57 caps for the Women's Senior National Team during her career. On national level Anderson, a resident of Etobicoke, Ontario, played for Ontario from age fifteen, and for the University of Toronto Varsity Blues from...
  
  
• Michelle Bowyer
  Michelle Bowyer
  Michelle Young is a former field hockey forward from Canada, who earned a total number of 75 international caps for the Canadian Women's National Team during her career. She was a student of the University of Alberta, Mount Royal College and Athabasca University where she obtained a Bachelor of...
  
  
• Nicole Colaco
  Nicole Colaco
  Nicole Colaco is a former field hockey player from Canada.Colaco earned a total number of 51 international caps for the Canadian Women's National Team during her career...
  
  
• Tara Croxford
  Tara Croxford
  Tara Berrett is a former field hockey player from Canada, who was born as Tara Croxford. She represented her native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, where she ended up in seventhe place with the Canadian National Team. She is married to veteran race walker and former...
  
  
• Sian Davies
• Lisa Faust
  Lisa Faust
  Lisa Faust is a former field hockey player from Canada, who earned a total number of 118 international caps for the Canadian Women's National Team during her career...
  
  
• Sarah Hill

• Chris Hunter
• Amy MacFarlane
  Amy MacFarlane
  Amy MacFarlane is a former field hockey forward, who earned a total number of 109 international caps for the Canadian National Team during her career...
  
  
• Karen MacNeill
  Karen MacNeill
  Karen MacNeill is a former field hockey striker from Canada, who earned a total number of 105 international caps for the Canadian Women's National Team during her career...
  
  
• Veronica Planella
  Veronica Planella
  Veronica Planella is a former field hockey player from Canada, who earned several international caps for the Women's Senior National Team. Planella, a resident of Victoria, British Columbia, represented both Canada and Chile internationally...
  
  
• Sue Reid
  Sue Reid
  Susan Schellinck is a former field hockey player from Canada, who was born as Susan Reid. She represented her native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, where she ended up in seventh place with the Canadian National Team...
  
  
• Gillian Sewell
  Gillian Sewell
  Gillian Sewell is a former Irish Canadian field hockey player who earned 36 international caps for the Canada during her career....
  
  
• Carla Somerville
  Carla Somerville
  Carla Somerville is a former field hockey player from Canada, who earned a total number of 97 international caps for the Women's Senior National Team during her career...
  
  

• Krista Thompson
  Krista Thompson
  Krista Thompson is a former field hockey goalkeeper from Canada, who earned a total number of 19 international caps for the Canadian National Team during her career...
  
  
• Deb Whitten

• Head Coach

Marina van der Merwe

Marina van der Merwe

Marina van der Merwe is a former field hockey coach, who was born in Cape Town, South Africa. She was the head coach of the Canada women's national field hockey team from 1976 to 1995.-References:*...