Field hockey at the 1976 Summer Olympics

The Field Hockey competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics, which was held in the Molson Stadium at the McGill University, on an artificial surface for the first time. Only a men's competition occurred.

Preliminary round

Group A

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

• Sunday July 18, 1976

• Monday July 19, 1976

• Tuesday July 20, 1976

• Wednesday July 21, 1976

• Thursday July 22, 1976

• Friday July 23, 1976

• Saturday July 24, 1976

• Sunday July 25, 1976

• Monday July 26, 1976 — Replay

Australia wins after penalty strokes (5-4)

Group B

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

• Sunday July 18, 1976

• Monday July 19, 1976

• Tuesday July 20, 1976

• Wednesday July 21, 1976

• Thursday July 22, 1976

• Friday July 23, 1976

• Saturday July 24, 1976

• Monday July 26, 1976 — Replay

Classification Round

Play-offs

• Wednesday July 28, 1976 — Ninth to twelfth place

• Thursday July 29, 1976 — Ninth place

• Thursday July 29, 1976 — Eleventh place

• Thursday July 29, 1976 — Fifth to eighth place

• Friday July 30, 1976 — Seventh place

• Friday July 30, 1976 — Fifth place

Semi finals

• Wednesday July 28, 1976

Bronze medal match

• Friday July 30, 1976

Final

• Friday July 30, 1976

Final ranking

1. New Zealand
2. Australia
3. Pakistan
4. Netherlands
5. West Germany
6. Spain
7. India
8. Malaysia
9. Belgium
10. Canada
11. Argentina

Top scorers

Pos.	Player	Goals	FG	PS	PC	LC
1	Paul Litjens (NED)	11	0	1	6	4
2	Juan Amat (ESP)	7	0	0	6	1
–	Ronald Riley (AUS)	7	7	0	0	0
–	Wolfgang Strödter (FRG)	7	0	0	5	2
5	Munawwaruz Zaman (PAK)	6	0	0	3	3
6	Serge Dubois (BEL)	4	0	0	3	1
–	Manzoor Hussain (PAK)	4	4	0	0	0
–	Tony Ineson (NZL)	4	0	0	3	1
–	Surjit Singh (IND)	4	0	0	4	0

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, Jim Irvine, Malcolm Poole, Robert Proctor, Graeme Reid, Ronald Riley, Trevor Smith, and Terry Walsh.
BRONZE	Pakistan Munawwaruz Zaman, Qamar Zia (gk), Shahnaz Sheikh, Saleem Sherwani (gk), Iftikhar Syed, Saleem Nazim, Abdul Rasheed Jr (captain), Hanif Khan, Samiullah Khan, Arshad Mahmood, Islahuddin (vice-captain), Manzoorul Hasan, Manzoor Hussain, Akhtar Rasool, Arshad Ali Chaudry, and Mudassar Asghar.

References

• Official Report

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