Current FIH Indoor World Ranking: 8

Indoor World Cup history: 2003 – 7th, 2007 – 7th, 2011 – 7th, 2015 – 4th.

After missing the Berlin 2018 edition, Austria return to the women’s Indoor World Cup stage and will be setting their sights high. Following seventh place finishes at the Leipzig 2003 and Vienna 2007 competitions, Austria came agonisingly close to a podium finish at Leipzig 2015, holding Czech Republic to a draw before suffering a heart-breaking defeat in the shoot-out. The team selected for Pretoria 2023 contains two players who competed in that painful defeat, with Marianne Pultar and Marta Laginja both aiming to get amongst the medals this time around. In December, Austria finished fourth in the recent EuroHockey Indoor Championship 2022 in Hamburg, Germany, with 20-year-old Johanna Czech top scoring for her team with four goals.