Field hockey at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Field Hockey at the II Summer Youth Olympic Games
Venue	Youth Olympic Sports Park
Dates	August 17–27

Field hockey at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
Events
Boys	Girls

Field Hockey at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics was held from August 17 to August 27. The events took place at the Youth Olympic Sports Park in Nanjing, China. This Youth Olympics marked the debut of Hockey 5s, a 5-a-side tournament that is played on a smaller field size.^[1]

Qualification

A total of 10 teams will participate in each gender. Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) can enter a maximum of 2 teams of 9 athletes, 1 per each gender. Each of the five continents hosted a qualification tournament where the top two teams qualified. As hosts, China has chosen to compete in the girls' tournament and has therefore taken one of the two available Asian spots.^[2]

To be eligible to participate at the Youth Olympics athletes must have been born between 1 January 1996 and 31 December 1999.^[2]

Boys

Event	Location	Date	Total Places	Qualified
Host Nation[3]	-	-	0	China
2013 Under 16 Asian Cup[3]	Singapore	4–7 April 2013	2	Bangladesh Pakistan
2013 Youth European Championship[3]	Vienna	22–28 July 2013	2	Germany Spain
2014 Youth American Championship[3]	San Juan	4–8 February 2014	2	Argentina Canada Mexico
Oceanian Qualification Tournament[3]	Port Villa	8–11 March 2014	2	Australia New Zealand
African Qualification Tournament[3]	Lusaka	10–15 March 2014	2	South Africa Zambia
TOTAL			10

Girls

Event	Location	Date	Total Places	Qualified
Host Nation[3]	-	-	1	China
2013 Youth European Championship[3]	Dublin	29 Jul–4 Aug 2013	2	Germany Netherlands
2013 Under 16 Asian Cup[3]	Bangkok	2–6 October 2013	1	Japan
2014 Youth American Championship[3]	Montevideo	11–15 February 2014	2	Argentina Uruguay
Oceanian Qualification Tournament[3]	Port Villa	8–11 March 2014	2	Fiji New Zealand
African Qualification Tournament[3]	Lusaka	10–15 March 2014	2	South Africa Zambia
TOTAL			10

Schedule

The schedule was released by the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games Organizing Committee.^[4] Each day during the group stage will contain four boys' matches and four girls' matches.

All times are CST (UTC+8)

Medal Summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia	1	0	0	1
1	China	1	0	0	1
2	Canada	0	1	0	1
2	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
3	Spain	0	0	1	1
3	Argentina	0	0	1	1
Total		2	2	2	6

Events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Boys'	Australia	Canada	Spain
Girls'	China	Netherlands	Argentina

References