Field hockey at the 1972 Summer Olympics
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| Venue | Hockeyanlage | |||||||||
| Dates | 27 August – 10 September 1972 | |||||||||
| Teams | 16 | |||||||||
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The field hockey tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics was the 12th edition of the field hockey event at the Summer Olympics.[1]
The West German victory was the first title by a European nation since 1920 but was marred by the behavior of Pakistani players, fans, and officials after losing the final.
At the final whistle, Pakistani fans and officials invaded the pitch before assaulting West German police and stadium security, storming the tournament officials table and pouring a bucket of water over International Hockey Federation president Rene Frank, while the players destroyed their locker room and refused to wear their silver medals or face the West German flag as it was raised at the medal ceremony.
The eleven Pakistani players were banned for life from their national team, but after a high-level apology, the ban was reduced to two years, and eight of them played at the 1976 Olympics.[2]
Medalists
Squads
Group stage
Group A
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 |  West Germany (H)
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7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 5 | +12 | 13 | Semi-finals |
| 2 |  Pakistan
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7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 6 | +11 | 11 | |
| 3 |  Malaysia
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7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | +2 | 9 | |
| 4 |  Spain
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7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 8 | +1 | 8 | |
| 5 |  Belgium
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7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 14 | −6 | 5 | |
| 6 |  France
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7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 13 | −7 | 4 | |
| 7 |  Argentina
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7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 9 | −5 | 3 | |
| 8 |  Uganda
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7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 14 | −8 | 3 |
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Group B
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 |  India
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7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 25 | 8 | +17 | 12 | Semi-finals |
| 2 |  Netherlands
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7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 9 | +11 | 11 | |
| 3 |  Great Britain
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7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 10 | +5 | 9 | |
| 4 |  Australia
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7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 8 | +10 | 8 | |
| 5 |  New Zealand
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7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 11 | +5 | 7 | |
| 6 |  Poland
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7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 6 | |
| 7 |  Kenya
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7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 17 | −9 | 3 | |
| 8 |  Mexico
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7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 40 | −39 | 0 |
Source: Olympedia
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Classification round
Ninth to sixteenth place classification
Fifteenth place game
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Thirteenth place game
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Eleventh place game
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Ninth place game
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Fifth to eighth place classification
| 5–8th place semi-finals | Fifth place | |||||
| 7 September | ||||||
| Australia | 2 | |||||
| 9 September | ||||||
| Malaysia | 1 | |||||
| Australia (a.e.t.) | 2 | |||||
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| Great Britain | 1 | |||||
| Spain | 0 | |||||
| Great Britain | 2 | |||||
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| 9 September | ||||||
| Spain | 2 | |||||
| Malaysia | 1 | |||||
5–8th place semi-finals
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Seventh place game
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Fifth place game
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Medal round
| Semi-finals | Gold medal match | |||||
| 8 September | ||||||
| West Germany | 3 | |||||
| 10 September | ||||||
| Netherlands | 0 | |||||
| West Germany | 1 | |||||
| 8 September | ||||||
| Pakistan | 0 | |||||
| Pakistan | 2 | |||||
| India | 0 | |||||
| Bronze medal match | ||||||
| 10 September | ||||||
| India | 2 | |||||
| Netherlands | 1 | |||||
Semi-finals
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Bronze medal match
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Gold medal match
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Statistics
Final standings
West Germany
Pakistan
India
Netherlands
Australia
Great Britain
Spain
Malaysia
New Zealand
Belgium
Poland
France
Kenya
Argentina
Uganda
Mexico
Goalscorers
17 goals
10 goals
9 goals
8 goals
7 goals
6 goals
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
- Patrick Nilan
- Patrick Gillard
- Jean-François Gilles
- Guy Miserque
- Carl-Eric Vanderborght
- Patrick Burtschell
- Francis Coutou
- Terry Gregg
- Peter Marsh
- Rui Saldanha
- Davinder Singh Deegan
- Surjeet Singh Panesar
- Surjeet Singh Rihal
- Ramalingam Pathmarajah
- Sri Shanmuganathan
- Frans Spits
- Shahnaz Sheikh
Włodzimierz Matuszyński- Francisco Amat
- José Sallés
- Horst Dröse
- Werner Kaessmann
- Rainer Seifert
1 goal
- Jorge Sabbione
- Greg Browning
- Donald Smart
- Philippe Collin
- Jean-Luc Darfeuille
- Georges Grain
- Eric Pitau
- Joe Ahmad
- Michael Crowe
- John French
- Christopher Langhorne
- M. P. Ganesh
- Tarlochan Singh Chana
- Brajinder Singh Daved
- Avtar Singh Sohal
- Francis Belavantheran
- Franco De Cruz
- Harnahal Singh Sewa
- José Miguel Huacuja
- José María Mascaro
- Nico Spits
- Jeroen Zweerts
- Jeff Archibald
- Mudassar Asghar
- Akhtarul Islam
- Muhammad Asad Malik
- Fazalur Rehman
- Stanisław Kaźmierczak
- Aleksander Wrona
- Józef Wybieralski
- José Alustiza
- Jaime Amat
- Juan Amat
- Paul Adiga
- Willie Lobo
- Ajit Singh Bhogal
- Jagdish Singh Kapoor
- Amarjit Singh Sandhu
- Rajinder Singh Sandhu
- Wolfgang Baumgart
- Carsten Keller
- Detlev Kittstein
- Ulrich Klaes
- Uli Vos
Source: Olympedia
References
- ^ "Hockey at the 1972 Munich Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
- ^ Misbehaving Pakistani hockey players
External links
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