Field hockey at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

Men's field hockey
at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Riverbank Arena
Tournament details
Host country	United Kingdom
City	London
Dates	30 July – 11 August
Teams	12 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)	Riverbank Arena
Final positions
Champions	Germany (4th title)
Runner-up	Netherlands
Third place	Australia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	38
Goals scored	185 (4.87 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Mink van der Weerden (8 goals)
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The men's field hockey tournament at the 2012 Summer Olympics was the 22nd edition of the field hockey event for men at the Summer Olympic Games. It was held over a thirteen-day period beginning on 30 July, and culminating with the medal finals on 11 August. All games were played at the Riverbank Arena within the Olympic Park in London, United Kingdom.

Defending champions Germany won the gold medal for the fourth time after defeating the Netherlands 2–1 in the final. Australia won the bronze medal by defeating Great Britain 3–1.

Competition format

The twelve teams in the tournament were divided into two pools of six, with each team initially playing round-robin games within their pool. Following the completion of the round-robin, the top two teams from each pool advance to the semi-finals. All other teams play classification matches to determine the final tournament rankings. The two semi-final winners meet for the gold medal match, while the semi-final losers play in the bronze medal match.

Qualification

Each of the continental champions from five federations and host received an automatic berth. The European and Oceanian federations received two and one extra quotas respectively based upon the FIH World Rankings at the completion of the 2010 World Cup. In addition to the three teams qualifying through the Olympic Qualifying Tournaments, the following twelve teams, shown with final pre-tournament rankings, competed in this tournament.

Date	Event	Location	Quotas	Qualifier(s)
Host nation			1	Great Britain (4)
15–25 November 2010	2010 Asian Games	Guangzhou, China	1	Pakistan (8)
20–28 August 2011	2011 EuroHockey Championship	Mönchengladbach, Germany	3	Germany (2) Netherlands (3) Belgium1 (11)
2–11 September 2011	2011 African Olympic Qualifier	Bulawayo, Zimbabwe	0	—2
6–9 October 2011	2011 Oceania Cup	Hobart, Australia	2	Australia (1) New Zealand (7)
14–30 October 2011	2011 Pan American Games	Guadalajara, Mexico	1	Argentina (9)
18–26 February 2012	Olympic Qualification Tournament 1	New Delhi, India	1	India (10)
10–18 March 2012	Olympic Qualification Tournament 2	Dublin, Ireland	1	South Korea (6)
26 April – 6 May 2012	Olympic Qualification Tournament 3	Kakamigahara, Japan	1	South Africa (12)
Invitational			1	Spain2 (5)
Total			12

^1 – Great Britain automatically qualified as host nation, therefore the berth obtained by England as third placed team at the 2011 EuroHockey Nations Championship was given to fourth placed team Belgium.

^2 – South Africa won the African qualifier tournament but gave up their automatic berth on the premise that they should play a qualifier having deemed the African tournament as sub-standard. Eventually they won the Qualification Tournament 3. Instead, Spain was invited as the highest ranked team not already qualified after the conclusion of the continental championships.

Umpires

The FIH announced the list of umpires on 3 January 2012:

• Christian Blasch (GER)
• Ged Curran (GBR)
• David Gentles (AUS)
• Marcin Grochal (POL)
• Colin Hutchinson (IRL)
• Nigel Iggo (NZL)
• Hamish Jamson (GBR)
• Kim Hong-lae (KOR)
• German Montes de Oca (ARG)
• Raghu Prasad (IND)
• Tim Pullman (AUS)
• Marcelo Servetto (ESP)
• Gary Simmonds (RSA)
• Nathan Stagno (GBR)
• Simon Taylor (NZL)
• Roel van Eert (NED)
• John Wright (RSA)

Squads

Main article: Field hockey at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads

Preliminary round

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+01:00)'

Pool A

Australia national field hockey team line up for their game against Spain.

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Classification round

Medal round

	Semi-finals				Gold medal match
	9 August
	Australia	2
					11 August
	Germany	4
					Germany	2
	9 August
					Netherlands	1
	Netherlands	9
	Great Britain	2
					Bronze medal match
					11 August
					Australia	3
					Great Britain	1

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Statistics

Final ranking

1. Germany
2. Netherlands
3. Australia
4. Great Britain
5. Belgium
6. Spain
7. Pakistan
8. South Korea
9. New Zealand
10. Argentina
11. South Africa
12. India

Goalscorers

There were 185 goals scored in 38 matches, for an average of 4.87 goals per match.

8 goals

• Mink van der Weerden

6 goals

• Jamie Dwyer
• Ashley Jackson
• Florian Fuchs
• Billy Bakker
• Roderick Weusthof

5 goals

• Tom Boon
• Christopher Zeller

4 goals

• Gonzalo Peillat
• Russell Ford
• Glenn Turner
• Jérôme Dekeyser
• Pau Quemada
• Nam Hyun-Woo
• Nick Wilson
• Justin Reid-Ross

3 goals

• Matthew Butturini
• Chris Ciriello
• Barry Middleton
• Simon Child
• Sohail Abbas
• Abdul Haseem Khan
• Lloyd Norris-Jones

2 goals

• Facundo Callioni
• Pedro Ibarra
• Kieran Govers
• Mark Knowles
• Simon Orchard
• Miguel Delas
• Eduard Tubau
• Jonty Clarke
• James Tindall
• Jan-Philipp Rabente
• Dharamvir Singh
• Sandeep Singh
• Hyun Hye-Sung
• You Hyo-Sik
• Teun de Nooijer
• Bob de Voogd
• Stephen Jenness
• Richard Petherick
• Muhammad Imran
• Jonathan Robinson

1 goal

• Lucas Rossi
• Lucas Vila
• Matias Vila
• Liam de Young
• Eddie Ockenden
• Gauthier Boccard
• Thomas Briels
• Cédric Charlier
• Florent van Aubel
• Ramón Alegre
• Marc Salles
• Daniel Fox
• Iain Lewers
• Robert Moore
• Richard Smith
• Oskar Deecke
• Moritz Fürste
• Oliver Korn
• Thilo Stralkowski
• Christopher Wesley
• Timo Weß
• Matthias Witthaus
• Gurwinder Singh
• Tushar Khandker
• Shivendra Singh
• V. R. Raghunath
• Jang Jong-hyun
• Lee Nam-yong
• Lee Seung-il
• Floris Evers
• Robbert Kemperman
• Robert van der Horst
• Valentin Verga
• Phillip Burrows
• Andy Hayward
• Waseem Ahmed
• Rehan Butt
• Shafqat Rasool
• Muhammad Waqas
• Andrew Cronje
• Timothy Drummond
• Thornton McDade
• Wade Paton
• Austin Smith

Source: FIH

External links

• Official FIH website
• Schedule