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

Contents

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

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

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.

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