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Indian Women’s Hockey Team Qualifies for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games - Kridangan Sports
India's women hockey team has qualified for next year’s Rio Olympic Games without playing a match. For a while, India's fortunes were controlled by factors other than the real field action. On August 30, 2015, England defeated Spain in the Euro-Hockey Championships held at London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Since Netherlands had earlier defeated Germany, the final was played between two national teams, which had already qualified for Rio. Therefore, one spot was freed up from the Olympic quota and that went to India. In the Hockey World League at Antwerp in June-July 2015, Indian women needed to finish among the top three teams for automatic qualification at Rio but