Field Hockey at the 2008 Summer Olympics (qualification)

This page describes the qualification for the hockey tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics . 

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[hide] *1 Parts  ==Parts[ Edit] == There are a total of 2 items for which a medal can be achieved, namely:
 * 2 Qualification
 * 2.1 Men
 * 2.2 Women

==Qualification[ Edit] == Both the men and the women do 12 teams participated in the Olympic tournament. Host country China is assured of a place. Also directly qualified the continental champions (year 2007) of Europe, Asia and Oceania and the winners of the qualifying tournament of Africa and of the Pan American Games. This also applies to the numbers 2 and 3 of the European Championships and in the men's race for the number two of Asia and at the women for the number two of Oceania. Should be Asian champion China then the number two of the Asia Championship posted.
 * Hockey for men
 * Hockey for women

The other three participants are the winners of the three Olympic qualifying tournaments (Oct). 18 countries will qualify for this during the aforementioned qualifying tournaments.

The countries are based on the position in the world rankings in september 2007 on the different OKT's classified. ===Men[ Edit] === <p lang="en" len="74" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Final score Olympic qualification tournaments (hosts is in italics): ===Women<span class="mw-editsection" len="369" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p lang="en" len="74" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Final score Olympic qualification tournaments (hosts is in italics):
 * Men
 * Africa-1 country-number 2 African qualifying tournament
 * America-4 countries-number 2 through 5 of the Pan American Games
 * Asia-4 countries-best four not yet placed countries of the Asia Championship
 * Europe-8 countries-numbers 4 through 11 of the European Championship
 * Oceania-1 country-number 2 of the Oceanic Championship.
 * Women
 * Africa-1 country-number 2 African qualifying tournament
 * America-5 countries-number 2 to 6 of the Pan American Games
 * Asia-4 countries-best four not yet placed countries of the Asia Championship
 * Europe-8 countries-numbers 4 through 11 of the European Championship
 * Oceania-no