Afro-Asian Games-Hockey-Indian men & women are Champions

BSharma · Post by **BSharma** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 5:56 pm

The schedule is out for hockey.

Men:

Pool A: Ghana, Korea, Malaysia and South Africa

Pool B: Egypt, India, Pakistan and Zimbabwe

Thursday Oct. 23:
Pakistan versus Zimbabwe; Ghana vs Korea; Malaysia vs South Africa; India vs Egypt

Friday Oct. 24: rest day

Saturday Oct. 25:Malaysia vs Ghana; Pakistan vs Egypt; Korea vs South Africa; India vs Zimbabwe

Sunday Oct. 26: Rest day

Monday Oct. 27:
South Africa vs Ghana; Egypt vs Zimbabwe; Korea vs Malaysia; India vs Pakistan

Tuesday Oct. 28: Rest day

Wednesday Oct. 29: Play off games

Thursday Oct. 30: Rest day

Friday Oct. 31:
Final; 3rd-4th place match; 5th-6th place match; 7th-8th place match; medal ceremony

Women Hockey:

Pool A: China, India, Namibia and South Africa
Pool B: Japan, Kenya, Korea and Zimbabwe

Thursday Oct. 23:
Korea vs Kenya; China v. Namibia; Japan v. Zimbabwe; India v. South Africa

Friday Oct. 24:
Kenya v. Japan; China v. South Africa; Korea v. Zimbabwe; India v. Namibia

Sat. Oct. 25: Rest day

Sunday Oct. 26:
Zimbabwe v. Kenya; South Africa v. Namibia; Korea v. Japan; China v. India

Mon. Oct. 27: Rest day

Tues. Oct. 28: Play off matches

Wed. Oct. 29: Rest day

Thurs. Oct. 30: Final; matches for 3rd-4th, 5th-6th, 7th-8th places; medal ceremony

Best of luck to both the Indian teams.

BSharma · Post by **BSharma** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 2:02 am

At the recently concluded hockey matches at the African Games the following were the results:

Men's hockey:
Nigeria 1 Ghana 2 Bronze Medal match
South Africa 2 Egypt 3 Golden Goal - Final

Egypt gains entry to the Athens Olympics as African Champions.

Women's hockey:

South Africa 10 Nigeria 0 Gold Medal Final

South Africa gains entry to the Athens Olympics as African Champions.

Both Egypt and South Africa have the men's team at the Afro-Asian Games.

South Africa's women's team will be in Hyderabad also. The Kenyan women's team plays Ghana for the bronze medal, and Namibia and Zimbabwe play for 5th-6th places.

BSharma · Post by **BSharma** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 2:28 pm

First day results of women's hockey:

South Korea bt Kenya by 5-0
India bt Ghana by 8-0
South Africa bt Kazakhstan by 12-0

Go India

BSharma · Post by **BSharma** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 2:30 pm

Results of men's hockey matches held today:

Pakistan bt Nigeria by 4-3
South Korea bt Ghana by 3-0
Malaysia vs South Africa Match draw (1-1)

India will play Egypt later today.

Update:

India defeated Egypt 5-1. Egypt won the African Games men's hockey championship recently and has qualified for the Olympics. India has not yet qualified for the Olympics and will play a tournament in Spain next year to qualify for the 2004 Olympiad.

Goals by players:

1 Prabhjot Singh India 6 mins in first half
2 Deepak Songkta India 37 mins in first half
3 Gagan Ajit Singh India 45 mins in first half
4 Mohmd Gamal Egypt 51 mins in second half
5 Prabhjot Singh India 57 mins in second half
6 Prabodh Tirkey India 69 mins in second half

BSharma · Post by **BSharma** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 1:49 am

The Chinese women's team failed to show up for their first match. The team was scheduled to reach Hyderabad on Wednesday and play their match against Nigeria on Thursday but now the team will reach Hyderabad on Friday and play their match on the same day.

So football is not the only sport with a controvery involving a missing team. I hope the Commonwealth Games reviewers are not taking too many notes about the scheduling conflicts at the Afro-Asian Games.

BSharma · Post by **BSharma** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 2:35 pm

In women's hockey the results were:

South Africa defeated India 3-1
South Africa won the African Games championship and qualified for the 2004 Olympics in women's hockey.

Goals scored:

1 Coetzee Pietie South Africa 20 min
2 Coetzee Pietie South Africa 24 min
3 Coetzee Pietie South Africa 42 min
4 Suman Bala India 47 min

Korea def Nigeria 6-0
Kazakhstan def Ghana 3-1
China def Kenya 2-1

Kumar · Post by **Kumar** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 2:15 am

Disappointing loss for Indian girls. hope they can come back. I guess they are still not over losing the qualifying tournament to USA.

gvhvhg · Post by **gvhvhg** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 4:11 pm

India bts Nigeria by 5-3

BSharma · Post by **BSharma** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 8:24 pm

Results (October 25th)

Men's hockey:

Malaysia def. Ghana by 5-0
Pakistan def. Egypt by 3-1
Korea def. South Africa by 2-0
India def. Nigeria by 5-3

Goals scored in India- Nigeria match:

1 Dilip Tirkey India 25 min
2 Deepak Sonkhta India 28 min
3 Sandeep Michael India 32 min
4 Oluwa Segun Ademisoro Nigeria 55 min
5 Len Aiyappa India 59 min
6 Oluwa Segun Ademisoro Nigeria 64 min
7 Auwolu Lamido Nigeria 73 min
8 Len Aiyappa India 75 min

Women's hockey:

China def. Nigeria by 3-1

PKBasu · Post by **PKBasu** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 5:11 pm

Surprisingly strong performances by Nigeria (3-4 against Pakistan and 3-5 against India). This is not a traditional hockey power: South Africa and Egypt are traditionally the strongest African teams, but Nigeria appears to be a team to watch out for in the future.

BSharma · Post by **BSharma** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 8:35 pm

PKBasu, I agree with you about Nigeria. The Nigerians are superb athletes and if they are given proper training then Nigeria can become a top notch hockey team.

BSharma · Post by **BSharma** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 8:51 pm

Results of women's hockey matches:

India def kazakhstan 9-0
Kenya def Nigeria 2-1
South Africa def Ghana 6-0
China draw Korea 1-1

The big match on October 27th is India versus Pakistan.

BSharma · Post by **BSharma** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 5:54 pm

India defeated Pakistan today in men's hockey league match by 4 goals to 2.

Sandeep Michael scored the first goal in the 22nd minute and then Pakistan scored two goals through MS Khalid and A. Shakeel in the 29th and 32nd minutes of the game. Prabhjot Singh equalized it in the 39th minute and then Gagan Ajit Singh scored twice in the 42nd minute and 67th minute to give India the victory.

In other matches:
South Africa def. Ghana 5-0
Egypt def. Nigeria 4-2
Korea def Malasia 2-1

India plays Malaysia in the semifinals on October 29th.

The Indian women's team plays Korea in the semifinals on October 28th.

Best of luck to both the Indian teams.

PKBasu · Post by **PKBasu** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 3:38 am

Nice to see that victories over Pakistan in hockey are now almost routine! And that, even without six of our stalwarts (including Dhanraj Pillai and Baljit Dhillon).

PKBasu · Post by **PKBasu** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 3:54 am

Actually it's been a titanic struggle this year to stamp our superiority over Pakistan. After two decades of relative futility, however, I think we now have a team that is clearly superior to Pakistan's best. And our junior pipeline is much stronger too.

Here's the rediff report on the India-Pakistan match:
http://in.rediff.com/sports/2003/oct/27aaghock.htm

Gagan Ajit Singh (with two goals) was the hero.

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