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Field hockey at the 1972 Summer Olympics

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Final results for the Hockey competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics:

Men's Tournament

Group A

  Pld W D L GF GA Pts
West Germany
7 6 1 0 17 5 13
Pakistan
7 5 1 1 17 6 11
Malaysia
7 4 1 2 9 7 9
Spain
7 2 4 1 9 8 8
Belgium
7 2 1 4 8 14 5
France
7 2 0 5 6 13 4
Argentina
7 0 3 4 4 9 3
Uganda
7 0 3 4 6 14 3

August 27, 1972 August 28, 1972 August 29, 1972 August 31, 1972 September 1, 1972 September 3, 1972 September 4, 1972

Group B

  Pld W D L GF GA Pts
India
7 6 1 0 25 8 12
Netherlands
7 5 1 1 20 9 11
Great Britain
7 4 1 2 15 10 9
Australia
7 3 2 2 18 8 8
New Zealand
7 2 3 2 16 11 7
Poland
7 2 2 3 12 12 6
Kenya
7 1 1 5 8 17 3
Mexico
7 0 0 7 1 40 0

August 27, 1972 August 28, 1972 August 30, 1972 August 31, 1972 September 2, 1972 September 3, 1972 September 4, 1972

Men's Semi Final Round

September 7, 1972 September 8, 1972

Men's Classification Matches

September 7, 1972 September 8, 1972 September 9, 1972

Men's Bronze Medal Match

September 10, 1972
NETHERLANDS 1 – 2 (1 – 1) INDIA 10:00 Hockey Facility Olympic Park, Munich
Ref: Osvaldo Pensosi (ITA) and Bernard Valette (FRA)
Ties Kruize 6' Govinda Billimogaputtaswamy 15'
Singh Mukhbain 70'

Men's Final

September 10, 1972
WEST GERMANY 1 - 0 (0 - 0) PAKISTAN 12:00 Hockey Facility Olympic Park, Munich
Ref: Horacio Servetto (ARG) and Richard Jewell (AUS)
Michael Krause 60'

Final ranking


1.
West Germany

2.
Pakistan
3.
India
4.
The Netherlands
5.
Australia
6.
Great Britain
7.
Spain
8.
Malaysia
9.
New Zealand
10.
Belgium
11.
Poland
12.
France
13.
Kenya
14.
Argentina
15.
Uganda
16.
Mexico
Remarks:
* Only a men's competition occurred in 1972
* It was the first ever gold medal lost by either Pakistan or India, former rulers in this sport)
* At the medal ceremony Pakistani players threw their silver medals at the floor and turned their backs as the German anthem played.

Men's Medal Winners

GOLD
 West Germany 

Eduard Thelen, Peter Trump, Uli Vos, Rainer Seifert, Wolfgang Strödter, Eckart Suhl, Michael Peter, Wolfgang Rott, Fritz Schmidt, Ulrich Klaes, Michael Krause, Peter Kraus, Werner Kaessmann, Carsten Keller, Detlef Kittstein, Wolfgang Baumgart, Horst Dröse, and Dieter Freise.
SILVER
 Pakistan 

Munawarux Zaman, Saleem Sherwani, Mohammad Zahid, Fezalur Rehman, Muhammad Shahnaz, Abdul Rashid, Mohammed Asad Malik, Akhtarul Islam, Islahud Din, Saeed Anwar, Mudassar Asghar, Jahangir Ahmad Butt, Iftikhar Ahmed, Riaz Ahmed, and Rasool Akhtar.
BRONZE
 India 

Mukhbain Singh, Virinder Singh, Harcharan Singh, Harmik Singh, Kulwant Singh, Krishnamurty Perumal, Ajitpal Singh, Harbinder Singh, Ashok Kumar, Kindo Michael, Galesh Mollerapoovayya, Govin Billimogaputtaswamy, Charles Cornelius, and Manuel Frederick.

at the 1972 Summer Olympics (Munich)
Archery | Athletics (track and field) | Basketball | Badminton (demonstration sport) | Boxing | Canoeing | Cycling | Diving | Equestrianism | Fencing | Football | Gymnastics | Handball | Hockey | Judo | Modern Pentathlon | Rowing | Shooting | Swimming | Volleyball | Water Polo | Water Skiing (demonstration sport) | Weightlifting | Wrestling | Yachting

 


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