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Venue | White City Stadium | ||||||||||||||||
Dates | 29 | –31 October 1908||||||||||||||||
Teams | 6 | ||||||||||||||||
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Field hockey at the 1908 Summer Olympics | |
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At the 1908 Summer Olympics, a field hockey tournament was contested for the first time. Six teams entered the tournament: England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Germany and France. England won the gold medal, Ireland the silver and Scotland and Wales were awarded bronze medals. All the medals were subsequently credited to Great Britain.[1][2]