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2010 Women's Hockey World Cup Qualifiers

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Host country
  
United States

Teams
  
6

Runner-up
  
United States

City
  
San Diego

Champions
  
South Korea

2010 Women's Hockey World Cup Qualifiers

Venue(s)
  
US Olympic Training Center

The 2010 Women's Hockey World Cup Qualifiers were the 12th edition of the qualification tournament for the Women's Hockey World Cup field hockey championship tournament. Three events were held between March and June 2010 in the United States, Russia and Chile and only the winner of each would earn a berth to play in the 2010 World Cup, to be held in Rosario, Argentina.

Contents

South Korea, Japan and Australia each won one of the three tournaments.

Qualification

Except for Africa, all other four confederations received quotas for teams to participate allocated by the International Hockey Federation based upon the FIH World Rankings at the completion of the 2008 Summer Olympics. Those teams participated at their respective continental championships but could not qualify through it, and they received the chance to qualify through one of the three tournaments based on the final ranking at each competition.

^1 –Trinidad and Tobago withdrew

Qualifier 1

  • San Diego, United States, 26 March–3 April 2010.
  • Umpires

    Below are the 8 umpires appointed by the International Hockey Federation:

    Pool

    All times are Pacific Daylight Time (UTC−07:00)

         Advanced to final

    Qualifier 2

  • Kazan, Russia, 17–26 April 2010.
  • Umpires

    Below are the 9 umpires appointed by the International Hockey Federation:

    Pool

    All times are Moscow Daylight Time (UTC+04:00)

         Advanced to final

    Qualifier 3

  • Santiago, Chile, 24 April–2 May 2010.
  • Umpires

    Below are the 7 umpires appointed by the International Hockey Federation:

    Pool

    All times are Chile Standard Time (UTC−04:00)

         Qualified for 2010 World Cup

    The winner of the tournament was decided by final standings after the pool matches, no classification matches were held.

    References

    2010 Women's Hockey World Cup Qualifiers Wikipedia