2003 Women's Champions Challenge (field hockey)

The second edition of the Women's Champions Challenge
Champions Challenge (field hockey)
The Hockey Champions Challenge is an international field hockey tournament, played every two years. It was introduced in 2001 by the International Hockey Federation in order to broaden hockey's competitive base at world level.-Men:...

took place in Catania

Catania

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, on the island of Sicily

Sicily

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. The event started on Saturday July 5 and ended on Sunday July 13. Participating nations at the women's six nations tournament were Germany

Germany

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, Japan

Japan

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, hosting nation Italy

Italy

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, New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

, Spain

Spain

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, and the United States

United States

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(1.) Yvonne Frank (gk), (2.) Julia Zwehl

Julia Zwehl

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(gk), (3.) Denise Klecker, (5.) Nadine Ernsting-Krienke

Nadine Ernsting-Krienke

Nadine Ernsting-Krienke is a field hockey striker from Germany, who won the gold medal with the Women's National Team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece...

, (6.) Anneke Bohmert, (7.) Natascha Keller

Natascha Keller

Natascha Keller is a German field hockey striker. She won a gold medal as a member of the German team at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She also competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics, 2000 Summer Olympics and 2008 Summer Olympics...

, (8.) Melanie Cremer, (9.) Friederike Barth, (10.) Silke Müller

Silke Müller

Silke Müller is a field hockey midfielder from Germany, who won the gold medal with the German National Women's Team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.- National Team Achievements:...

, (11.) Cornelia Reiter, (12.) Caroline Casaretto, (13.) Marion Rodewald (captain), (16.) Fanny Rinne, (18.) Anke Kühn

Anke Kühn

Anke Kühn is a female field hockey player from Germany, who played for the Germany women's national field hockey team....

, (20.) Alexandra Kollmar, (21.) Badri Latif, (22.) Kerstin Hoyer, and (32.) Franziska Gude. Head Coach: Peter Lemmen.

(1.) Roberta Lilliu (gk), (2.) Stella Girotti, (3.) Enrica Tagliasacchi, (4.) Claudia Torretta, (5.) Victoria Corso, (6.) Lila Grasso, (7.) Giorgia Carradori, (8.) Sonia Scalia, (9.) Francesca Faustini, (10.) Laura Garcia, (11.) Alessandra Filippi, (12.) Anna Russo

Anna Russo

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(gk), (14.) Tatiana Nicoletti, (15.) Silvia Previgliano, (16.) Maltilde Canavosio, (18.) Dolores Miranda, (21.) Roberta Marrocu, and (22.) Daniela Possali. Head Coach: Picco Roberto.

(1.) Rie Terazono (gk), (2.) Keiko Miura

Keiko Miura

is a female field hockey field player from Japan, who is playing for Sony Bravia Ladies. She plays as a defender and is the striker of the penalty corner in her league team as well as the national team...

(captain), (3.) Akemi Kato, (4.) Yukari Yamamoto, (5.) Sachimi Iwao, (6.) Chie Kimura, (7.) Yuka Ogura, (8.) Sakae Morimoto, (10.) Naoko Saito, (11.) Kayo Soga, (12.) Nami Miyazaki

Nami Miyazaki

Nami Miyazaki is a field hockey international goalkeeper from Japan, who was a member of the national women's team that competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.-References:*...

(gk), (15.) Erika Esaki, (17.) Asuka Chiba, (18.) Tomomi Komori

Tomomi Komori

Tomomi Komori is a female field hockey player from Japan. She twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics .Komori became topscorer at the 2006 Women's Hockey World Cup Qualifier in Rome, Italy, alongside Kaori Chiba , Rhona Simpson and Maryna Vynohradova , scoring six...

, (19.) Rika Komazawa, (21.) Rika Ishida, (22.) Yuko Kitano, and (23.) Emi Sakurai. Head Coach: Tsuda Toshiro.

(1.) Kayla Sharland

Kayla Sharland

Kayla Marie Sharland is a field hockey striker. Sharland was a member of the New Zealand women's national field hockey team during its participation at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, where it finished sixth.-International senior competitions:* 2003 – Champions Challenge,...

, (2.) Nikki Grimwood, (3.) Paula Enoka, (4.) Jan Rowsell, (5.) Rachel Sutherland

Rachel Sutherland

Rachel Anne Sutherland is a female field hockey player from New Zealand, who represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There she finished in sixth place with the Women's National Team, wearing the number five jersey. Sutherland was affiliated with Emeralds,...

, (6.) Meredith Orr

Meredith Orr

Meredith Dawn Orr is a field hockey midfielder from New Zealand, who represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There she finished in sixth place with the Women's National Team...

, (8.) Jaimee Provan, (12.) Karen McMillan, (13.) Jo Galletly, (14.) Suzie Pearce (captain), (16.) Helen Clarke

Helen Clarke

Helen Margaret Clarke ONZM is a former field hockey goalkeeper for New Zealand, who competed in three Summer Olympics: 1992, 2000 and 2004....

(gk), (18.) Diana Weavers

Diana Weavers

Diana Elizabeth Weavers is a field hockey defender from New Zealand, who finished sixth with her national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney...

, (19.) Melody Rowe, (20.) Amanda Christie, (21.) Niniwa Roberts

Niniwa Roberts

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, (23.) Tara Drysdale, (26.) Anita Wawatai (gk), and (28.) Karen Syddall. Head Coach: Ian Rutledge

Ian Rutledge

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(1.) María Jesús Rosa (gk), (2.) Silvia Manrique, (3.) Olalla Piñeiro, (5.) Mónica Rueda, (6.) Silvia Bonastre, (7.) María del Carmen Martín, (8.) Marta Prat, (9.) Silvia Muñoz, (10.) Lucía López

Lucía López

Lucía López Martínez is a former female field hockey player from Spain. She was a member of the Women's National Team at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996. She played club hockey for Real Club de Polo in Barcelona.-References:*...

, (11.) María del Mar Feito, (12.) Maider Tellería

Maider Tellería

Maider Tellería Goñi is a former field hockey player from Spain. She was a member of the Women's National Team that surprisingly won the golden medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics on home soil ....

, (14.) Rocío Ybarra, (15.) Erdoitza Goikoetxea, (17.) Núria Camón, (18.) Ana Raquel Pérez, (19.) Isabel Barguño (gk), (20.) Raquel Huertas, and (21.) Esther Termens. Head Coach: Jack Holtman

(1.) Tamika Smith, (2.) Kristen McCann, (4.) Margaret Storrar

Margaret Storrar

Margaret Storrar is a field hockey goalkeeper from the United States, who made her international senior debut for the Women's National Team in 1995. The former student of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was a member of the team, that won the silver medal at the 1999 Pan American...

(gk), (5.) Tara Jelley, (6.) Robyn Kenney

Robyn Kenney

Robyn Kenney is a field hockey midfielder from the United States, who earned her first senior career cap vs Russia on May 2, 2002. Kenney attended Boston University...

, (7.) Tracey Larson

Tracey Larson

Tracey Larson is a field hockey player from the United States, who made her international senior debut for the Women's National Team in 1999...

, (8.) Kelli Gannon

Kelli Gannon

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, (9.) Tracey Fuchs

Tracey Fuchs

Tracey Claire Fuchs is a former field hockey midfielder from the United States, who was a member of the US women's team that finished fifth at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. She also competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, where Team USA finished in eighth and last position...

, (11.) Katie Beach

Katie Kauffman

Katie Kauffman Beach is a former field hockey midfield player from the United States, who earned a total number of 165 caps for the Women's National Team, in which she scored one goal...

(captain), (12.) Dina Rizzo, (13.) Keli Smith, (15.) Jill Reeve

Jill Reeve

Jill Reeve is a former field hockey defender from the United States, who earned a total number of 134 caps for the Women's National Team, in which she scored eight goals. The former student of the Old Dominion University recovered from injury suffered at the 2002 Champions Challenge to help the U.S...

, (17.) Carrie Lingo, (19.) Abbey Woolley, (21.) Natalie Dawson, (22.) Kate Barber

Kate Barber

Kate Barber is a field hockey forward and midfield player from the United States, who made her international senior debut for the Women's National Team in 1998 by scoring two goals in a 3-3 draw with New Zealand...

, (25.) Amy Tran

Amy Tran

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(gk), and Jessica Coleman. Head Coach: Beth Anders

Beth Anders

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Standings

9
Team	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	13	5	4	1	0	13	4
2.	11	5	3	2	0	8	3
3.	10	5	3	1	1	16	8
4.	6	5	2	0	3	5	5	0
5.	3	5	1	0	4	9	13	–4
6.	0	5	0	0	5	3	21	–18

Fifth Place

Bronze Medal

Final

Final ranking

Remarks

Germany
Germany
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will participate in next year's Champions Trophy
2004 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy
The 12th edition of the annual Women's Champions Trophy took place from Saturday November 6 until Sunday November 14, 2004 at the Country Jockey Club de Rosario in Rosario, Argentina...

in Rosario
Rosario
Rosario is the largest city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is located northwest of Buenos Aires, on the western shore of the Paraná River and has 1,159,004 residents as of the ....

, Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

.

Awards

TOPSCORERS:
- Tomomi Komori
  Tomomi Komori
  Tomomi Komori is a female field hockey player from Japan. She twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics .Komori became topscorer at the 2006 Women's Hockey World Cup Qualifier in Rome, Italy, alongside Kaori Chiba , Rhona Simpson and Maryna Vynohradova , scoring six...
  
  (Japan) – 5 goals
- Kate Barber
  Kate Barber
  Kate Barber is a field hockey forward and midfield player from the United States, who made her international senior debut for the Women's National Team in 1998 by scoring two goals in a 3-3 draw with New Zealand...
  
  (United States) – 5 goals
- Niniwa Roberts
  Niniwa Roberts
  Niniwa Kiri Rata Roberts-Lang is a field hockey striker from New Zealand, who was a member of the squad that finished sixth at the 2004 Summer Olympics and twelfth at the 2008 Summer Olympics ....
  
  (New Zealand) – 5 goals
PLAYER OF THE TOURNAMENT
- Denise Klecker (Germany)
GOALKEEPER OF THE TOURNAMENT
- Margaret Storrar
  Margaret Storrar
  Margaret Storrar is a field hockey goalkeeper from the United States, who made her international senior debut for the Women's National Team in 1995. The former student of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was a member of the team, that won the silver medal at the 1999 Pan American...
  
  (United States)

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