Field hockey

Field hockey (sometimes referred to as simply hockey) was introduced at the Summer Olympic Games as a men’s competition at the 1908 Games in London, with six teams, including four from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

For a long period of time, the South Asian countries of India and Pakistan dominated the Olympics, with either India or Pakistan winning the men’s gold medal in every Olympics from 1928 to 1968.

The first women’s Olympic hockey competition was held at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Olympic field hockey games were first played on artificial turf at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games.