National hockey teams to compete in bottom half of World Cup placing matches
Despite the national men’s side putting up a fight on Thursday to pick up their only point of the opening round, both SA teams have been relegated to lower-tier classification matches at the men’s and women’s Hockey World Cup tournaments taking place concurrently in Belgium and the Netherlands.
And the SA women’s team could achieve their best performance since they ended seventh at the 1998 edition of the World Cup, though they too needed to go unbeaten in the next round.
Finishing bottom of their pool, the SA women were now due to join the men’s side in the classification rounds for ninth to 16th places.
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