The FIH has announced the allocation of teams for Olympic Qualification Tournaments.

After the Oceania Cup, nine of the 12 Olympic participants for both the men’s and the women’s hockey tournaments are now finalized:

Men:
Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Korea, Netherlands, Pakistan, South Africa, Spain.

Women:
Argentina, Australia, China, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa.

The Olympic Qualification tournament details are as follows:

Men:

North Shore City, Auckland, New Zealand – 02/10 February 2008

Argentina, Cuba, France, Ireland, New Zealand and Trinidad & Tobago

Santiago, Chile – 01/09 March 2008

Austria, Bangladesh, Chile, Egypt, Great Britain and India

Kakamigahara, Japan – 05/13 April 2008

Czech Republic, Germany, Japan, Malaysia, Poland, Switzerland

The reserve nations for the tournaments (in order) are:

(1) Netherlands Antilles (2) USA (3) Mexico

Women:

Baku, Azerbaijan – 12/20 April 2008

Azerbaijan, Belarus, Chile, Kenya, Spain and Ukraine

Kazan, Russia – 19/27 April 2008

Belgium, Chinese Taipei, India, Netherlands Antilles, Russia and USA

Victoria, Canada – 26 April/04 May 2008

Canada, Cuba, Ireland, Italy, Korea and Malaysia

The reserve nations for these tournaments (in order) are:

(1) France (2) Uruguay (3) Barbados

In the event that a nation does not accept the invitation to participate in a qualifier, it will be replaced directly by the reserve nations in order of world ranking.