Sports and Everyday Life

When was field hockey made an Olympic sport for women?

Link to this answer

CloseClose

Link to this answer

Share this credible answer with others. Simply paste this code into your blog or Web page:

<a href="http://qanda.encyclopedia.com/question/field-hockey-made-olympic-sport-women-89216.html" >When was field hockey made an Olympic sport for women?</a>
E-mail this answer Link to this answer

Although the sport has been very popular among high school and collegiate women in the United States since 1901, particularly in the East, it has been a women's Olympic event only since 1980.

Answer verified with
Get more facts and information about hockey, field . Or, view the full encyclopedia entry from The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.

Similar questions: When did field hockey become a popular sport for American women? Do American women play field hockey? [ Hide these questions ]

Related research questions

Related research articles

OLYMPIC SPORT PREVIEW: FIELD HOCKEY SERIOUS ELSEWHERE.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) ...Wittenberg made the cut and...being a field hockey player. It...his travels, field hockey is serious...men's and women's fields at the upcoming...history in the sport. The Netherlands...previous Dutch Olympic teams and has...s highest sports honor in 1999. ...
Hockey: KNUCKLING DOWN; An injured hand threatened Martin Jones's Olympic...
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) ...something about sport that brings...foreign rugby field there is one...sportsmen and women together...from Cannock Hockey Club was faced...to go to the Olympic Games in Athens...Britain's pre-Olympic tour to Argentina...decision well made: 'At the...hospital where the ...
Japanese struggle with cultural limits as it fields Olympic hockey...
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service ...company-sponsored women's hockey team. ``The first...Championship. They made the trip across the...new to the game of hockey; they have been...national team until the sport was added to the...women's hockey has made great strides in...
The maestro of US field hockey Hixon changes the beat for Olympic team
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe ...slender woman with cropped...with the US women's field hockey team. Any...US field hockey coach Pam...week's Olympic Games. The...since the sport became an...consider field hockey a contradiction...those who made the team...
Ready to rumble.(women venturing into sports like football, hockey, and boxing)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report ...Long Island field house were...America. The Women's Professional...football to ice hockey to boxing...competing in sports grows across...established sports for women...participation in sport," says...Women's ice hockey, which made its Olympic debut ...
See all results at HighBeam

HighBeam gives you access to newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles plus press releases, facts, information, and biographies from thousands of sources.