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. The 33 matches of hockey events at stadiums were watched by 177,880 spectators.

Medals

Pos Country Gold Silver Bronze Total:
1  India (IND) 1 0 0 1
 Zimbabwe (ZIM) 1 0 0 1
3  Czechoslovakia (TCH) 0 1 0 1
 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 round

Team Pld W D L GF GA Pts
Spain 54103339
India 53203968
Soviet Union 530230116
Poland 521219155
Cuba 51047422
Tanzania 50053540
20 July
Poland  7 – 1  Cuba
20 July
India  18 – 0  Tanzania
20 July
Soviet Union  1 – 2 Spain
21 July
Cuba  2 – 11  Soviet Union
21 July
Tanzania  0 – 12 Spain
21 July
Poland  2 – 2  India
23 July
Tanzania  0 – 4  Cuba
23 July
India  2 – 2 Spain
23 July
Soviet Union  5 – 1  Poland
24 July
India  13 – 0  Cuba
24 July
Poland  0 – 6 Spain
24 July
Soviet Union  11 – 2  Tanzania
26 July
Tanzania  1 – 9  Poland
26 July
India  4 – 2  Soviet Union
26 July
Cuba  0 – 11 Spain

Classification

Fifth place qualifiers

26 July
Cuba  4 – 1  Tanzania

Third place match

26 July
Soviet Union  2 – 1  Poland

First place match

26 July
India  4 – 3 Spain

Final Ranking

Rk Team
1st India
2nd Spain
3rd Soviet Union
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), K Mathivanan, 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 Bosch, José Garcia, Rafael Garralda, Santiago Malgosa, Paulino Monsalve, Juan Pellón, Joel Ramirez Carlos Roca and Jaime Zumalacárregui.

BRONZE Soviet Union

Vladimir Pleshakov, Viacheslav Lampeev, Leonid Pavlovski, Sos Hayrapetyan, 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.

Preliminary Pool

Rk Team Pld W D L GF GA Pts
1stZimbabwe Zimbabwe 53201348
2nd Czechoslovakia 53111057
3rd Soviet Union 53021156
4 India 5212965
5 Austria 52036114
6 Poland 50050180
25 July
Poland  0 – 4  Zimbabwe
25 July
Austria  0 – 2  India
25 July
Soviet Union  2 – 0  Czechoslovakia
27 July
India  4 – 0  Poland
27 July
Zimbabwe  2 – 2  Czechoslovakia
27 July
Soviet Union  0 – 2  Austria
28 July
India  1 – 2  Czechoslovakia
28 July
Austria  3 – 0  Poland
28 July
Soviet Union  0 – 2  Zimbabwe
30 July
Soviet Union  6 – 0  Poland
30 July
India  1 – 1  Zimbabwe
30 July
Austria  0 – 5  Czechoslovakia
31 July
Poland  0 – 1  Czechoslovakia
31 July
Austria  1 – 4  Zimbabwe
31 July
Soviet Union  3 – 1  India

Note: country names are given in the form they were used in official documents of the IOC in 1980

Women's Medal Winners

GOLD Zimbabwe 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, Liz Chase, Sandra Chick, Gillian Cowley and Patricia Davies.

SILVER Czechoslovakia

Milada Blažková, Jiřina Čermáková, Jiřina Hájková, Berta Hrubá, Ida Hubáčková, Jiřina Kadlecová, Jarmila Králíčková, Jiřina Křížová, Alena Kyselicová, Jana Lahodová, Květoslava Petříčková, Viera Podhányiová, Iveta Šranková, Marie Sýkorová, Marta Urbanová and Lenka Vymazalová.

BRONZE Soviet Union

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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