Field hockey at the 1976 Summer Olympics

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The Field Hockey competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics, which was held in the Molson Stadium at the McGill University, made history as it was played on an artificial surface for the first time in history. Only a men's competition occurred, with tha participation of eleven countries after Kenya had withdrawn as the nation from East Africa stayed away at the last moment, demanding the expulsion of New Zealand from the Olympics for sending a rugby union team to South Africa.

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[edit] Preliminary Round

[edit] Group A

TEAM PTS P W D L GF GA
1 Netherlands Netherlands 10 5 5 0 0 11 3
2 Australia Australia 6 5 3 0 2 14 6
3 India India 6 5 3 0 2 12 9
4 Malaysia Malaysia 4 5 2 0 3 3 7
5 Canada Canada 2 5 1 0 4 4 11
6 Argentina Argentina 2 5 1 0 4 4 12


India 4-0 (2-0) Argentina
Australia 2-0 (1-0) Malaysia


India 1-3 (0-1) Netherlands
Australia 3-0 (1-0) Canada


Netherlands 2-0 (0-0) Malaysia
Argentina 1-3 (0-2) Canada


India 1-6 (1-3) Australia
Malaysia 2-0 (0-0) Argentina


India 3-0 (1-0) Canada
Australia 1-2 (0-2) Netherlands


Netherlands 1-0 (1-0) Argentina
Malaysia 1-0 (0-0) Canada


India 3-0 (2-0) Malaysia
Australia 2-3 (1-1) Argentina


Netherlands 3-1 (0-1) Canada


Australia 1-1 (1-1) India
Australia wins after penalty strokes (5-4)

[edit] Group B

POS TEAM PTS P W D L GF GA
1 Pakistan Pakistan 7 4 3 1 0 16 6
2 New Zealand New Zealand 4 4 1 2 0 6 8
3 Spain Spain 4 4 1 2 0 9 7
4 West Germany West Germany 3 4 1 1 2 10 10
5 Belgium Belgium 2 4 1 0 3 5 15


Pakistan 5-0 (1-0) Belgium
West Germany 1-1 (0-0) New Zealand


Pakistan 2-2 (1-1) Spain


Spain 1-1 (1-0) New Zealand


Pakistan 4-2 (2-1) West Germany
New Zealand 2-1 (1-0) Belgium


West Germany 1-4 (1-3) Spain


Spain 2-3 (1-1) Belgium


Pakistan 5-2 (4-1) New Zealand
West Germany 6-1 (3-1) Belgium


Spain 0-1 (0-0) New Zealand


[edit] Classification Round

[edit] Play-offs

Belgium 3-2 (1-1) Argentina
Canada bye


Canada 2-3 (1-0) Belgium


Argentina bye


Spain 2-1 (1-0) Malaysia
India 2-3 (1-0) West Germany


India 2-0 (0-0) Malaysia


Spain 1-9 (0-2) West Germany

[edit] Semi Finals

Pakistan 1-2 (1-1) Australia
Netherlands 1-2 (1-1) New Zealand

[edit] Bronze Medal Match

Netherlands 2-3 (1-1) Pakistan

[edit] Final

New Zealand 1-0 (0-0) Australia

[edit] Final Ranking

[edit] Top Scorers

POS PLAYER'S NAME GOALS FG PS PC LC
1 Canada Joe Sakic (CAN) 11 0 1 6 4
2 Spain Juan Amat (ESP) 7 0 0 6 1
Australia Ronald Riley (AUS) 7 7 0 0 0
West Germany Wolfgang Strödter (FRG) 7 0 0 5 2
5 Pakistan Munawar Zaman Khan (PAK) 6 0 0 3 3
6 Belgium Serge Dubois (BEL) 4 0 0 3 1
Pakistan Manzoor Hussain (PAK) 4 4 0 0 0
New Zealand Tony Ineson (NZL) 4 0 0 3 1
India Surjit Singh (IND) 4 0 0 4 0

[edit] Medal Winners

GOLD New Zealand

Paul Ackerley, Jeff Archibald, Arthur Borren, Alan Chesney, John Christensen, Greg Dayman, Tony Ineson, Barry Maister, Selwyn Maister, Trevor Manning, Alan McIntyre, Neil McLeod, Arthur Parkin, Mohan Patel, Ramesh Patel, and Les Wilson.

SILVER Australia

David Bell, Greg Browning, Rick Charlesworth, Ian Cooke, Barry Dancer, Douglas Golder, Robert Haigh, Wayne Hammond, Stephen Marshall, Jim Irvine, Malcolm Poole, Robert Proctor, Graeme Reid, Ronald Riley, Trevor Smith, and Terry Walsh.

BRONZE Pakistan

Munawarux Zaman, Qamar Zia, Shanaz Sheik, Saleem Sherwani, Iftikhar Syed, Saleem Nazim, Abdul Rashid, Abdul Rashid, Haneef Khan, Samiullah Khan, Arshad Mahmood, Islahud Din, Manzoor Hassan, Manzoor Hussein, Rasool Akhtar, Arshad Ali Chaudry, and Mudassar Asghar.


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