Field hockey at the 1956 Summer Olympics explained

Event:	Field hockey
Games:	1956 Summer
Dates:	23 November – 6 December 1956
Teams:	12
Prev:	1952
Next:	1960

The men's field hockey tournament at the 1956 Summer Olympics was the eighth edition of the field hockey event for men at the Summer Olympics. It was contested from 23 November to 6 December, with twelve participating teams. Only men competed in field hockey at these Games.

India won the gold medal for the sixth successive Games, not allowing a single goal against in the entire tournament. Pakistan won the silver medal, and Germany won the bronze.^[1]

Medalists

Leslie Claudius Ranganathan Francis Haripal Kaushik Amir Kumar Raghbir Lal Shankar Lakshman O. P. Malhotra Govind Perumal Amit Singh Bakshi Raghbir Singh Bhola Balbir Singh Dosanjh Hardyal Singh Garchey Randhir Singh Gentle Balkishan Singh Grewal Gurdev Singh Kullar Udham Singh Kullar Bakshish Singh Charles Stephen

Zakir Hussain Munir Ahmed Dar Ghulam Rasool Anwar Ahmed Khan Qazi Massarrat Hussain Noor Alam Abdul Hamid Habibur Rehman Ahmed Naseer Bunda Motiullah Latif-ur Rehman Akhtar Hussain Habib Ali Kiddie Manzoor Hussain Atif

Günther Brennecke Hugo Budinger Werner Delmes Hugo Dollheiser Eberhard Ferstl Alfred Lücker Helmut Nonn Wolfgang Nonn Heinz Radzikowski Werner Rosenbaum Günther Ullerich

Participating nations

Twelve teams were seeded and placed into one of three preliminary groups of four teams each. With the unbalanced seeding, the top two teams in Group C advanced to the semi-finals, but only the top team in both Groups A and B advanced.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Squads

See main article: Field hockey at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads.

Results

Preliminary round

Pool A

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Pool B

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Play–off match

Pool C

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Classification round

Ninth to twelfth place classification

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Fifth to eighth place classification

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Medal round

Semi-finals

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Gold medal match

External links

• Book: The Official Report of the Organizing Committee for the Games of the XVI Olympiad Melbourne 1956 . 500–511 . 1958 . W.M. Houston, Government Printer . Melbourne, Australia . PDF . 2008-01-29.
• Web site: Olympic Medal Winners . . 2008-01-28.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Hockey at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417045751/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1956/HOK/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 18 September 2019.