2008 Womens Olympic Games

Beijing, China - August 10-23, 2008

Australia v Great Britain

Placement 5-6

# Info Date Teams Score Status Match Sheet
August 22nd, 2008
W36 Placement 5-6 11:00am Australia AUS - GBR Great Britain 2 - 0 (1 - 0) Final    

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Classification 5th-6th: Australia v Great Britain

> Australia have won two previous encounters with Great Britain at the Olympics: at Atlanta 1996 (1-0) and at Sydney 2000 (2-1).
> In 2000 Nikki Hudson scored the opening goal for Australia against Great Britain.
> If Australia finish in sixth place, this will be their worst result ever at the Olympics.
> At Athens 2004 and Barcelona 1992, the Hockeyroos finished fifth, recording their worst result so far at the Olympics.
> GB finished eight in their last Olympic appearance at Sydney 2000, their worst ranking so far.
> Casey Eastham is the leading goal scorer for the Hockeyroos at Beijing 2008 with four goals.
> Crista Cullen is top goal scorer in the GB squad with three goals.
> Australia have converted 6 of 18 penalty corners awarded (i.e.33%).
> Great Britain have scored five from 24 penalty corner attempts (i.e. 20%).

RSA v NZL (Placement 11-12) GER v ARG (Bronze)

POOL STANDINGS

Team Pld W D L GD Pts
Pool A
Netherlands  NED 5 5 0 0 11 15
China  CHN 5 3 1 1 10 10
Australia  AUS 5 3 1 1 8 10
Spain  ESP 5 2 0 3 -8 6
South Korea  KOR 5 1 0 4 -5 3
South Africa  RSA 5 0 0 5 -16 0
Pool B
Germany  GER 5 4 0 1 4 12
Argentina  ARG 5 3 2 0 6 11
Great Britain  GBR 5 2 2 1 -2 8
United States  USA 5 1 3 1 1 6
Japan  JPN 5 1 1 3 -2 4
New Zealand  NZL 5 0 0 5 -7 0

MATCHES

Aug 22, 2008
RSA South Africa
New Zealand NZL
AUS Australia
Great Britain GBR
GER Germany
Argentina ARG
CHN China
Netherlands NED
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