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Marang Gomke Jaipal Singh Astro: World No.5 and top favourites for clinching one of the three berths to the Paris Olympic Games from here, Germany made a winning start in the Men's FIH Hockey Olympic Qualifiers with a 3-0 win over Chile in a scrappy lung-opener for the event at the Marang Gomke Jaipal Singh Astro Turf Hockey Stadium here on Saturday.

Selin Oruz opened the scoring for Germany in the 7th minute with a penalty corner conversion while Jette Fleschütz (10th minute) and Lisa Nolte contributed a goal each in the match dominated by Germany, who enjoyed a lot of possession and earned five penalty corners, converting only one.

Germany started aggressively and earned a PC in the second minute but they had to wait till the seventh minute to open their account when Selin Oruz converted their second penalty corner with a fine drag flick.