Thursday 10 March 2016

Irish hockey today

After a 107 year wait Ireland finally qualified for the 2016 Olympics in Rio. They will be the first Irish hockey team to compete in the Olympics level since 1908. They will also be the first team of any sport to compete at an Olympic level since 1948. In August they made history by winning a bronze medal at the eurohockey championships, which gave them a firm spot amongst the best European and world hockey. Ireland will join many other countries who qualified for the Olympics. Such as Brazil, India, Germany, Canada, Spain, Belgium and great Britain. Ireland will be playing in the 2016 Olympics in Rio from the 5th of August to the 21st.


Although Ireland may not have qualified for the Olympics hockey wise is a few years we have had other side achievements. In 1978 and 1990 we came 12th place in the world cup. In the eurohockey nations championship in 2007 we came 7th place, In 2011 we came 5th place, In 2013 we came 6th place and in 2015 we got a bronze by coming third place. In the eurohockey nations trophy we came first in 2005 and 2009.



photo from: www.Independent.ie
information from: www.hockey.ie

Friday 4 March 2016

The world of hockey starting from the bottom:




There is no particular date that we can track field hockey back to but there is games similar to the sport which may have contributed to hockey being created. These games wouldn't be directly to hockey but they have similar quality's such as the stick and ball concept. some examples of early hockey relations would be the Irish game of hurling and a game quite similar to that which originated from Scotland called Shinty.




modern day hockey dates back to have begun in the 19th century in public British schools. As time went on the game was getting more and more developed as the years went by. Teddington hockey club was a major contributor to the developing of hockey. Finally in 1886 hockey was starting to be seen as a real sport and a hockey association  was formed by seven London clubs and included representatives from trinity college and Cambridge university. The founding members were Austria, Belgium, France, Hungary, Spain and Switzerland.


women and men are different although hockey was developing by year, it still wasn't seen acceptable for women to play a men's game. Its only been it the last 100 to 200 years that hockey has become more of a women's game then a men's game. Today hockey would be known all over the world and is even played in the Olympics from teams all over the world and played by men and woman. 


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