Kazakhstan's women's field hockey team conceded 16 unanswered goals to China at the end of the 2026 Asian Games group stage. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Kursiv Media.

Serik Kalimbaev's charges initially had few chances against the reigning Asian Games champions. The Chinese confirmed the worst expectations. The catastrophe occurred in the second period, which our girls lost 0:8. After that, only one question remained – how many more goals would the favorites score? In the end, they scored just as many more.

Field hockey. Women. Group A. Matchday 6

🏑 CHINA – KAZAKHSTAN 16:0 (1:0, 8:0, 1:0, 6:0)

The match between Chinese Taipei and Bangladesh today will determine which place Kazakhstan will contest in the final match at the Asian Games. 9th or 11th, the penultimate.

🏑 SOUTH KOREA – CHINESE TAIPEI 3:1, MALAYSIA – KAZAKHSTAN 5:0, CHINA – BANGLADESH 15:0, SOUTH KOREA – KAZAKHSTAN 7:0, CHINA – CHINESE TAIPEI 10:0, MALAYSIA – BANGLADESH 3:1, SOUTH KOREA – BANGLADESH 8:0, KAZAKHSTAN – CHINESE TAIPEI 1:4, CHINA – MALAYSIA 4:0, KAZAKHSTAN – BANGLADESH 3:3, CHINA – SOUTH KOREA 3:0, MALAYSIA – CHINESE TAIPEI 5:0, CHINA – KAZAKHSTAN 16:0

  • 01China – 15, 2. South Korea – 9, 3. Malaysia – 9, 4. Chinese Taipei – 3, 5. Bangladesh – 1, 6. Kazakhstan – 1

🏑 THAILAND – SINGAPORE 2:0, JAPAN – INDONESIA 7:0, INDIA – UZBEKISTAN 19:0, INDIA – INDONESIA 17:1, UZBEKISTAN – THAILAND 1:3, JAPAN – SINGAPORE 5:0, INDONESIA – SINGAPORE 3:1, INDIA – THAILAND 20:1, UZBEKISTAN – JAPAN 1:7, JAPAN – INDIA 1:3, INDONESIA – THAILAND 1:0, SINGAPORE – UZBEKISTAN 3:1,

  • 01India – 12, 2. Japan – 9, 3. Thailand – 6, 4. Indonesia – 6, 5. Singapore – 3, 6. Uzbekistan – 0

After the group stage, the top two teams from each six-team group will advance to the semifinals. The third and fourth teams will compete for places 5-8. The group outsiders will play for 9th and 11th places.

The 2026 Asian Games champions will receive a berth for the 2028 Olympics. The next four teams will play in the Olympic qualification tournament.

Kazakhstan's women's hockey players have participated in the Asian Games four times. In Bangkok-98 and Incheon-2014, our team was sixth, in Guangzhou-2010 – seventh. At the last Asian Games (Hangzhou-2022), Kazakhstan took eighth place.

The XX Summer Asian Games officially opened on September 19 and will end on October 4. Athletes from 45 countries are competing for 460 sets of medals. Kazakhstan's national team at the 2026 Asian Games includes 558 athletes in 35 sports.

On the first day of the Games, Kazakhstan won four gold medals. The champions of the Games were cyclists Rinata Sultanova and Alexey Lutsenko, as well as karatekas Zholaman Bigabyl and Sofya Berultseva. The fifth gold was added to the team's tally by MMA fighter Yerkingali Burkutalin. The sixth – by his teammate in mixed martial arts Kadyrbek Shynbaev. On September 23, Lutsenko became a two-time champion of the 2026 Asian Games. The eighth gold medal was won on September 24 by rowers Vladislav Yakovlev and Ivan Chernukhin in the men's coxless pairs competition.

After seven days of the Games, Kazakhstan was in fifth place in the unofficial medal standings.