Field hockey at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Hockey at the 1980 Summer Olympics was represented by two events: men's team event and women's team event. For the first time a women's Olympic Games hockey tournament was organized. Both events were held in two venues, located in the north-western part of Moscow:

• the Minor Arena of the Central Dynamo Stadium
• the Young Pioneers Stadium

The schedule started on July 20 and ended on July 31. 177,880 spectators watched 33 matches of hockey events at stadiums.

Medals

Pos	Country:	Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:	Total:
1=	India (IND)	1	0	0	1
1=	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	1	0	0	1
3=	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	1	0	1
3=	Spain (ESP)	0	1	0	1
5	Soviet Union (URS)	0	0	2	2

Men's Tournament

In the Preliminary Pool teams played against each other in a round. Then teams, placed 1st and 2nd contested for gold and silver medals; placed 3rd and 4th contested for bronze medals and placed 5th and 6th contested for 5th place.

Preliminary Pool

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
Spain	5	4	1	0	33	3	9
India	5	3	2	0	39	6	8
USSR	5	3	0	3	30	11	6
Poland	5	2	1	2	19	15	5
Cuba	5	1	0	4	7	42	2
Tanzania	5	0	0	5	3	54	0

• July 20
  • Dynamo 11:00 Poland 7-1 Cuba
  • Dynamo 12:45 India 18-0 Tanzania
  • Dynamo 17:00 Spain 2-1 USSR

• July 21
  • Dynamo 11:00 USSR 11-2 Cuba
  • Dynamo 12:45 Spain 12-0 Tanzania
  • Dynamo 17:00 India 2-2 Poland

• July 23
  • Dynamo 11:00 Cuba 4-0 Tanzania
  • Dynamo 12:45 India 2-2 Spain
  • Dynamo 17:00 USSR 5-1 Poland

• July 24
  • Dynamo 11:00 India 13-0 Cuba
  • Dynamo 12:45 Spain 6-0 Poland
  • Dynamo 17:00 USSR 11-2 Tanzania

• July 26
  • Dynamo 11:00 Poland 9-1 Tanzania
  • Dynamo 12:45 India 4-2 USSR
  • Dynamo 17:00 Spain 11-0 Cuba

1st-2nd place match

July 29 Dynamo 17:00 India 4-3 Spain

3rd-4th place match

July 29 Dynamo 15:00 USSR 2-1 Poland

5th-6th place match

July 29 Young Pioneers 11:00 Tanzania 1-4 Cuba

Final Ranking

1. India
2. Spain
3. USSR
4. Poland
5. Cuba
6. Tanzania

Men's Medal Winners

GOLD	India Allan Schofield (gk), Bir Bhadur Chettri, Sylvanus Dung Dung, Rajinder Singh, Davinder Singh, Gurmail Singh, Ravinder Pal Singh, Vasudevan Baskaran (captain), Sommayya Maneypande, Maharaj Krishan Kaushik, Charanjit Kumar, Merwyn Fernandes, Amarjit Singh Rana, Mohamed Shahid, Zafar Iqbal, and Surinder Singh Sodhi.
SILVER	Spain Juan Amat, Juan Arbós, Jaime Arbós, Javier Cabot, Ricardo Cabot, Miguel Chaves, Juan Coghen, Miguel de Paz, Francisco Fábregas, José Garcia, Rafael Garralda, Santiago Malgosa, Paulino Monsalve, Juan Pellón, Carlos Roca and Jaime Zumalacárregui.
BRONZE	USSR Vladimir Pleshakov, Viacheslav Lampeev, Leonid Pavlovski, Sos Airapetian, Farit Zigangirov, Valeri Belyakov, Sergei Klevtsov, Oleg Zagorodnev, Aleksandr Gusev, Sergei Pleshakov, Mikhail Nichepurenko, Minneula Azizov, Aleksandr Sychyov, Aleksandr Miasnikov, Viktor Deputatov, and Aleksandr Goncharov.

Women's Tournament

Held for the first time in Olympic history. Women's teams played against each other in one round.

Championship Pool

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
1	Zimbabwe	5	3	2	0	13	4	8
2	Czechoslovakia	5	3	1	1	10	5	7
3	USSR	5	3	0	2	11	5	6
4	India	5	2	1	2	9	6	5
5	Austria	5	2	0	3	6	11	4
6	Poland	5	0	0	5	0	18	0

• July 25
  • Young Pioneers 11:00 Poland 0-4 Zimbabwe
  • Young Pioneers 12:45 Austria 0-2 India
  • Young Pioneers 17:00 USSR 2-0 Czechoslovakia

• July 27
  • Dynamo 13:00 India 4-0 Poland
  • Dynamo 14:45 Zimbabwe 2-2 Czechoslovakia
  • Young Pioneers 17:00 USSR 0-2 Austria

• July 28
  • Young Pioneers 13:00 India 1-2 Czechoslovakia
  • Young Pioneers 14:45 Austria 3-0 Poland
  • Dynamo 17:00 USSR 0-2 Zimbabwe

• July 30
  • Dynamo USSR 6-0 Poland
  • Dynamo India 1-1 Zimbabwe
  • Young Pioneers Austria 0-5 Czechoslovakia

• July 31
  • Dynamo 10:00 Poland 0-1 Czechoslovakia
  • Dynamo 11:45 Austria 1-4 Zimbabwe
  • Dynamo 15:30 USSR 3-1 India

Remark:country names are given in the form they were used in official documents of the IOC in 1980

Women's Medal Winners

GOLD	Zimbabwe Arlene Boxhall, Sarah English, Maureen George, Ann Grant (captain), Susan Huggett, Patricia McKillop, Brenda Phillips, Christine Prinsloo, Sonia Robertson, Anthea Stewart, Helen Volk, Linda Watson, Elizabeth Chase, Sandra Chick, Gillian Cowley and Patricia Davies.
SILVER	Czechoslovakia Milada Blazková, Jirina Cermáková, Jirina Hájková, Berta Hrubá, Ida Hubácková, Jirina Kadlecová, Jarmila Králícková, Jirina Krízová, Alena Kyselicová, Jana Lahodová, Kvetoslava Petrícková, Viera Podhányiová, Iveta Srámková, Marie Sykorová, Marta Urbanová and Lenka Vymazalová.
BRONZE	USSR Valentina Zazdravnykh, Tatyana Shvyganova, Galina Vyuzhanina, Tatyana Yembakhtova, Alina Kham, Natella Krasnikova, Nadezhda Ovechkina, Nelli Gorbyatkova, Yelena Guryeva, Galina Inzhuvatova, Nadezhda Filipova, Lyudmila Frolova, Lidiya Glubokova, Leyla Akhmerova, Natalya Buzunova, and Natalya Bykova.

References

• Official Olympic Report