Field hockey at the 2006 Asian Games

The field hockey tournament at the 2006 Asian Games was held from 2 to 14 December 2006 in Al-Rayyan Hockey Field.

Field hockey at the 2006 Asian Games
Venue	Al-Rayyan Hockey Field
Dates	2 December 2006 (2006-12-02) – 14 December 2006 (2006-12-14)
Competitors	271 from 10 nations
Medalists
South Korea (men)  China (women)    China (men)  Japan (women)    Pakistan (men)  India (women)
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In this event, 10 teams participated in men's field hockey events and 7 teams in the women's events. China and South Korea became champions in the men's and women's field hockey events, respectively.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	South Korea Ko Dong-sik Lee Seung-il Kim Chul Kim Yong-bae Lee Nam-yong Seo Jong-ho Kang Seong-jung Yoon Sung-hoon You Hyo-sik Yeo Chang-yong Cha Jong-bok Lee Myung-ho Hong Eun-seong Hong Sung-kweon Yeo Woon-kon Jang Jong-hyun	China Luo Fangming Ye Peng Jiang Xishang Lu Fenghui Li Wei Song Yi Meng Xuguang Liu Xiantang Hu Liang Meng Jun Yu Yang Na Yubo Pei Zuopeng Su Rifeng Hu Huiren	Pakistan Salman Akbar Zeeshan Ashraf Ihsanullah Khan Imran Khan Yousafzai Adnan Maqsood Sajjad Anwar Tariq Aziz Rashid Imran Shakeel Abbasi Rehan Butt Muhammad Zubair Nasir Ahmed Imran Ali Warsi Muhammad Imran Muhammad Waqas Muhammad Mudassar
Women details	China Nie Yali Chen Zhaoxia Ma Yibo Mai Shaoyan Huang Junxia Fu Baorong Li Shuang Gao Lihua Tang Chunling Zhou Wanfeng Sun Zhen Zhang Yimeng Li Hongxia Ren Ye Chen Qiuqi Bao Ejing	Japan Rie Terazono Ikuko Okamura Mayumi Ono Keiko Miura Chie Kimura Yukari Yamamoto Rika Komazawa Sakae Morimoto Kaori Chiba Tomomi Komori Toshie Tsukui Yuko Kitano Sachimi Iwao Akemi Kato Miyuki Nakagawa Misaki Ozawa	India Dipika Murthy Suman Bala Rajwinder Kaur Asunta Lakra Binita Xess Surinder Kaur Mamta Kharab Marita Tirkey Joydeep Kaur Ritu Rani Jasjeet Kaur Handa Jyoti Sunita Kullu Pushpa Pradhan Saba Anjum Karim Binita Toppo Subhadra Pradhan

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	1	1	0	2
2	South Korea	1	0	0	1
3	Japan	0	1	0	1
4	India	0	0	1	1
	Pakistan	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		2	2	2	6

Qualification

Top 6 Asian teams, South Korea, India, Pakistan, Japan, China and Malaysia could enter the men's competition directly. For the next four spots a qualification tournament was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh from 11 to 20 May 2006.^[1]

Women's qualification tournament was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 5 to 9 June 2006. All four teams qualified for the Asian Games but later Pakistan withdrew.

Men Rank Team 1  Bangladesh 2  Oman 3  Chinese Taipei 4  Hong Kong 5  Singapore 6  Sri Lanka 7  Iran

Women Rank Team 1  Malaysia 2  Chinese Taipei 3  Hong Kong 4  Pakistan

Draw

The teams were distributed according to their position at the FIH World Rankings using the serpentine system for their distribution.

Pool A  Pakistan (5)  Japan (12)  Malaysia (14)  Hong Kong (28)  Chinese Taipei (33)

Pool B  South Korea (6)  India (7)  China (19)  Bangladesh (31)  Oman (59)

Final standing

Men

Further information: Field hockey at the 2006 Asian Games – Men's tournament

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L
	South Korea	6	5	1	0
	China	6	4	0	2
	Pakistan	6	3	2	1
4	Japan	6	2	2	2
5	India	6	4	1	1
6	Malaysia	6	3	2	1
7	Bangladesh	6	2	0	4
8	Chinese Taipei	6	1	0	5
9	Hong Kong	5	1	0	4
10	Oman	5	0	0	5

Women

Further information: Field hockey at the 2006 Asian Games – Women's tournament

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L
	China	7	6	0	1
	Japan	7	5	1	1
	India	7	4	0	3
4	South Korea	7	4	1	2
5	Malaysia	7	3	0	4
6	Chinese Taipei	7	0	1	6
7	Hong Kong	6	0	1	5