Field hockey at the 2022 Asian Games facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Field hockey at the 2022 Asian Games
Venues	Gongshu Canal Sports Park Field Hockey Field
Location	Hangzhou, China
Dates	24 September–7 October 2023
Nations	14
Champions
Men	India
Women	China
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Field hockey is a super exciting team sport! At the 2022 Asian Games, field hockey games were held in Hangzhou, China. The matches took place at the Gongshu Canal Sports Park Field Hockey Field. This big event happened from September 24 to October 7, 2023.

The best part? The teams that won these field hockey tournaments earned a special spot! They qualified to play in the 2024 Summer Olympics. This made the competition even more thrilling!

Game Schedule

The field hockey games at the Asian Games followed a clear schedule. All times listed were local China Standard Time (which is UTC+8).

The tournament had different stages:

• P stood for the Preliminary round, where teams played against others in their group.
• ½ meant the Semi-finals, where the top teams battled it out.
• B was for the Bronze medal match, deciding third place.
• F was the big Gold medal match, where the champions were crowned!

How Teams Qualified

Teams had to qualify to play in the Asian Games field hockey tournament. This meant they needed to earn their spot!

Men's Qualification

Some teams qualified because they were the host country. Others qualified by doing well in the previous Asian Games in 2018. The rest of the teams had to play in a special qualification tournament in 2022.

Qualification	Date	Host	Berths	Qualified team
Host country	16 September 2016	N/A	1	China
2018 Asian Games	20 August – 1 September 2018	Jakarta	5	Japan  Malaysia  India  Pakistan  South Korea
2022 Asian Games Qualifier	6–15 May 2022	Bangkok	6	Oman  Bangladesh  Indonesia  Thailand  Sri Lanka  Uzbekistan  Singapore
Total			12

Women's Qualification

Just like the men's teams, the women's teams also had different ways to qualify. The host country automatically got a spot. Other teams qualified based on their performance in the 2018 Asian Games. There was also a special qualification tournament for women's teams in 2022.

Qualification	Date	Host	Berths	Qualified team
Host country	16 September 2016	N/A	1	China
2018 Asian Games	19–31 August 2018	Jakarta	5	Japan  India  South Korea  Malaysia  Thailand
2022 Asian Games Qualifier	6–14 June 2022		4	Hong Kong  Kazakhstan  Singapore  Indonesia
Total			10

Medal Winners

Here's a look at which countries won medals in field hockey at the 2022 Asian Games.

Medal Table

This table shows how many gold, silver, and bronze medals each country won.

  *   Host nation (China)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	India	1	0	1	2
2	China*	1	0	0	1
3	South Korea	0	1	1	2
4	Japan	0	1	0	1
Totals (4 entries)		2	2	2	6

Medalists

These are the amazing athletes who won medals for their countries in field hockey.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's tournament details	India Abhishek Amit Rohidas Gurjant Singh Hardik Singh Harmanpreet Singh Jarmanpreet Singh Krishan Pathak Lalit Upadhyay Mandeep Singh Manpreet Singh Nilakanta Sharma P. R. Sreejesh Sanjay Shamsher Singh Sukhjeet Singh Sumit Varun Kumar Vivek Prasad	Japan Raiki Fujishima Kentaro Fukuda Ryosei Kato Kosei Kawabe Yamato Kawahara Takumi Kitagawa Genki Mitani Yuma Nagai Ken Nagayoshi Takuma Niwa Masaki Ohashi Ryoma Ooka Taiki Takade Kaito Tanaka Seren Tanaka Shota Yamada Manabu Yamashita Takashi Yoshikawa	South Korea Hwang Tae-il Jang Jong-hyun Jeong Jun-woo Ji Woo-cheon Jung Man-jae Kang Young-bin Kim Hyeong-jin Kim Jae-hyeon Kim Jung-hoo Kim Sung-hyun Lee Hye-seung Lee Jung-jun Lee Ju-young Lee Nam-yong Lee Seung-hoon Park Cheo-leon Son Da-in Yang Ji-hun
Women's tournament details	China Ye Jiao Gu Bingfeng Yang Liu Li Jiaqi Zhang Ying Chen Yi Ma Ning Liang Meiyu Huang Haiyan Li Hong Ou Zixia Dan Wen Zou Meirong Zhang Xiaoxue He Jiangxin Chen Yang Zhong Jiaqi Li Xinhuan	South Korea Seo Jung-eun An Hyo-ju Kang Ji-na Cheon Eun-bi Cho Hye-jin Kim Min-jeong Cho Eun-ji Lee Yu-ri Choi Su-ji Kim Jeong-ihn Seo Su-young Park Seung-ae Baek Ee-seul Kim Eun-ji An Su-jin Pak Ho-jeong Lee Jin-min Kim Eun-ji	India Deep Grace Ekka Monika Malik Sonika Tandi Nikki Pradhan Bichu Devi Kharibam Savita Punia Sangita Kumari Nisha Warsi Vandana Katariya Udita Duhan Lalremsiami Navneet Kaur Sushila Chanu Salima Tete Neha Goyal Ishika Chaudhary Deepika Kumari Vaishnavi Phalke

Men's Tournament Details

The men's field hockey tournament was a big part of the Asian Games. You can find all the detailed information about the matches and scores by clicking the link below.

The competition had two main parts: a preliminary round where teams played in groups, and then a final round with knockout matches to decide the medal winners.

Preliminary Round

Teams were divided into different groups (Pool A and Pool B) for the first stage of the tournament.

Pool A

Pool B

Medal Round

After the preliminary round, the top teams moved on to the medal round. This included the semi-finals, the bronze medal match, and the gold medal match.

Final Standings

Here's how all the men's teams ranked at the end of the tournament.

Women's Tournament Details

The women's field hockey tournament was also a major event at the Asian Games. For all the specific game results and team details, check out the main article.

Similar to the men's tournament, the women's competition also had a preliminary round followed by a final round to determine the medalists.

Preliminary Round

The women's teams also played in groups during the preliminary stage.

Pool A

Pool B

Medal Round

The teams that performed best in the preliminary round advanced to compete for the medals.

	Semi-finals				Final
	5 October
	India	0
					7 October
	China	4
					China	2
	5 October
					South Korea	0
	Japan	2 (3)
	South Korea	2 (4)
					Third place
					7 October
					India	2
					Japan	1

Final Standings

This shows the final ranking of all the women's teams in the tournament.