The Australia national field hockey team (nickname Kookaburras) are the Australia

Australia

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's national men's hockey

Field hockey

Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

 team, and one of the nation's most successful top level sporting teams. They are the only Australian team in any sport to receive medals at the last five Summer Olympic Games

Summer Olympic Games

The Summer Olympic Games or the Games of the Olympiad are an international multi-sport event, occurring every four years, organized by the International Olympic Committee. Medals are awarded in each event, with gold medals for first place, silver for second and bronze for third, a tradition that...

 (1992–2008), and have placed in the top four in every Olympics since 1980. They also won the Hockey World Cup

Hockey World Cup

The Hockey World Cup is an international field hockey competition organised by the International Hockey Federation . The tournament was started in 1971...

 in 1986 and 2010.

The Kookaburras' inability to win an Olympic gold medal despite their perennial competitiveness, led many in the Australian hockey community to speak of a "curse" afflicting the team, finally broken in 2004 with the win in Athens.

Olympic Games (13)

• 1956
  Field hockey at the 1956 Summer Olympics
  The field hockey tournament at the 1956 Summer Olympics was contested from November 23 to December 6, with twelve participating teams. Only men competed in field hockey at these Games. India won the gold medal for the sixth successive Games, not allowing a single goal against in the entire...
  
   – Fifth place
• 1960
  Field hockey at the 1960 Summer Olympics
  The field hockey tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy was contested from August 26 to September 9, with sixteen participating teams. Only men competed in field hockey at these Games. Pakistan won the gold medal, defeating India in the final and ending India's run of six successive...
  
   – Sixth place
• 1964
  Field hockey at the 1964 Summer Olympics
  Hockey at the 1964 Summer Olympics was a sport open only to men. 15 teams played in the field hockey competition.-Results:-Final ranking:-Preliminary round:...
  
   –
• 1968
  Field hockey at the 1968 Summer Olympics
  Final results for the Hockey competition at the 1968 Summer Olympics: Only a men's competition was held.-Medalists:Medal'TeamGold PakistanSilver AustraliaBronze India-Final Rankings:*1.*2.*3 *4.*5.*6.*7.*8.*9.*10.*11.*12.*13.*14....
  
   –
• 1972
  Field hockey at the 1972 Summer Olympics
  This tournament is remembered for the first victory of a European nation after 1920 and the misbehaviour of the players of Pakistan after losing the final, which included kicking their silver medals during the medal ceremony and ravaging the locker room. Accordingly, they were banned for life from...
  
   – Fifth place
• 1976
  Field hockey at the 1976 Summer Olympics
  The Field Hockey competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics, which was held in the Molson Stadium at the McGill University, made history as it was played on an artificial surface for the first time in history...
  
   –
• 1980
  Field hockey at the 1980 Summer Olympics
  Hockey at the 1980 Summer Olympics was represented by two events: men's team event and women's team event. For the first time a women's Olympic Games hockey tournament was organized...
  
   – DNC - Boycott
• 1984
  Field hockey at the 1984 Summer Olympics
  All matches were played at Weingart Stadium, Los Angeles, United States. Final results for the Hockey competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics:-Men's Medalists:-Women's Medal Winners:-References:**...
  
   – Fourth place
• 1988
  Field hockey at the 1988 Summer Olympics
  -Pool A:---------------------------------------------------------Pool B:-------------------------------------------------------------Ninth to twelfth place play-offs:--------...
  
   – Fourth place
• 1992
  Field hockey at the 1992 Summer Olympics
  -Group A:-Group B:-Final round:-------------Medal winners:GOLD GERMANY ---- Michael Knauth, Christopher Reitz, Carsten Fischer, Jan-Peter Tewes, Volker Fried, Klaus Michler, Andreas Keller, Michael Metz, Christian Blunck, Sven Meinhardt, Michael Hilgers, Andreas Becker, Stefan Saliger, Stefan...
  
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• 1996
  Field hockey at the 1996 Summer Olympics
  The Olympic Field Hockey Tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States, was held in the Morris Brown College Stadium and Panther Stadium The event ran from Saturday July 20 to Friday August 2, 1996.-Men's tournament:GOLD Netherlands...
  
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• 2000
  Field hockey at the 2000 Summer Olympics
  -Men's Tournament:* See also: Men's Hockey at the 2000 Summer Olympics -Group A:-Group B:September 16, 2000September 17, 2000September 17, 2000September 19, 2000September 19, 2000September 19, 2000September 21, 2000...
  
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• 2004
  Field hockey at the 2004 Summer Olympics
  Field Hockey at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held at the Olympic Hockey Centre located within the Helliniko Olympic Complex. The competitions for both men and women was split into two groups with the top two teams after the preliminary rounds progressing through to the semi-finals.-Men's...
  
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• 2008
  Field hockey at the 2008 Summer Olympics
  Field hockey at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing was held over a fourteen day period beginning on August 10, and culminating with the medal finals on August 22 and August 23...
  
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World Cup (11)

• 1971 – Eighth place
• 1975 – Fifth place
• 1978 –
• 1982 –
• 1986 –
• 1990 –
• 1994 –
• 1998 – Fourth place
• 2002 –
• 2006 –
• 2010 -

Champions Trophy (30)

• 1978 –
• 1980 –
• 1981 –
• 1982 –
• 1983 –
• 1984 –
• 1985 –
• 1986 –
• 1987 –
• 1988 –
• 1989 –
• 1990 –
• 1991 – Fourth place
• 1992 –
• 1993 –
• 1994 – Fourth place
• 1995 –
• 1996 – Sixth place
• 1997 –
• 1998 –
• 1999 –
• 2000 – Fifth place
• 2001 –
• 2002 – Fifth place
• 2003 –
• 2005 –
• 2006 – Fourth place
• 2007 –
• 2008 –
• 2009 –
• 2010 -

Oceania Hockey Cup

• 1999 –
• 2001 –
• 2003 –
• 2005 –
• 2007
  2007 Oceania Cup
  The 2007 Oceania Cup is the 5th tournament of Oceania Cup field hockey tournament. It was held in Buderim, Queensland, Australia from 11 September to 16 September 2007. The champions of the tournament, as well as the second placed women's team, will also awarded a place in the 2008 Beijing Olympic...
  
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• 2009 –
• 2011
  2011 Oceania Cup
  The 2011 Oceania Cup was held from 6–9 October in Hobart, Australia. Three teams were named to compete in the men's tournament, while only two women teams participated after Fiji withdrew. Both, Australia and New Zealand are therefore already qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics...
  
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