Indian women’s hockey team has qualified for the next year’s Rio Olympics after a long gap of 36 years. The credit goes to England team for making it to the final of the ongoing EuroHockey Championships in London. England’s semifinal victory over Spain, coming after the Netherlands’ win over Germany in the other semifinal in the European Championships freed one quota place as both the finalists have already qualified for the Olympic Games. India took the quota place on the basis of its fifth-place finish in the women’s Hockey World League Semifinals.
International Hockey Federation (FIH) confirmed that Indian women’s team has qualified for the Rio Games. Indian women’s team now join nine other teams, who have already qualified for 2016 Rio Games. The countries are Korea as Asian Games champions, Argentina as Pan Am Games champions and Great Britain, China, Germany, Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand and the USA through the Hockey World League Semi-Finals.
Indian women’s hockey team last featured in an Olympics in the 1980 Moscow Games, where they finished at a respectable fourth position.
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