Field hockey at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Field hockey at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Venue	Hockeyanlage at Olympiapark
Dates	August 27 – September 10, 1972
Competitors	263 from 16 nations
Medalists
01 !  West Germany 02 !  Pakistan 03 !  India

The West German victory was the first title by a European nation since 1920, but was marred by the behaviour of Pakistani players, fans and officials after losing the final.

At the final whistle, Pakistani fans and officials invaded the pitch before assaulting West German police and stadium security, storming the tournament officials table and pouring a bucket of water over International Hockey Federation president Rene Frank, while the players destroyed their locker room and refused to wear their silver medals or face the West German flag as it was raised at the medal ceremony. ^[1]

The eleven Pakistani players were banned for life from their national team, but after a high-level apology, the ban was reduced to two years, and eight played at the 1976 Olympics.^[2]

Final results for the Hockey competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics:

Men's tournament

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
West Germany	7	6	1	0	17	5	13
Pakistan	7	5	1	1	17	6	11
Malaysia	7	4	1	2	9	7	9
Spain	7	2	4	1	9	8	8
Belgium	7	2	1	4	8	14	5
France	7	2	0	5	6	13	4
Argentina	7	0	3	4	4	9	3
Uganda	7	0	3	4	6	14	3

August 27, 1972

• West Germany – Belgium 5-1 (3-1)
• Pakistan – France 3-0 (1-0)
• Malaysia – Uganda 3-1 (1-0)
• Spain – Argentina 1-1 (0-1)

August 28, 1972

• West Germany – Malaysia 1-0 (1-0)
• Belgium – Argentina 1-1 (1-1)
• Pakistan – Spain 1-1 (1-1)
• France – Uganda 3-1 (1-0)

August 29, 1972

• Pakistan – Uganda 3-1 (2-0)
• Spain – Malaysia 0-0 (0-0)
• Belgium – France 1-0 (1-0)
• West Germany – Argentina 2-1 (2-0)

August 31, 1972

• Pakistan – West Germany 1-2 (0-0)
• Argentina – Uganda 0-0 (0-0)
• Spain – Belgium 1-0 (0-0)
• France – Malaysia 0-1 (0-1)

September 1, 1972

• Spain – France 3-2 (3-1)
• Pakistan – Argentina 3-1 (1-0)
• West Germany – Uganda 1-1 (1-1)
• Belgium – Malaysia 2-4 (1-3)

September 3, 1972

• West Germany – Spain 2-1 (0-1)
• Pakistan – Malaysia 3-0 (1-0)
• France – Argentina 1-0 (1-0)
• Belgium – Uganda 2-0 (0-0)

September 4, 1972

• Spain – Uganda 2-2 (2-2)
• Pakistan – Belgium 3-1 (1-1)
• West Germany – France 4-0 (3-0)
• Malaysia – Argentina 1-0 (0-0)

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
India	7	5	2	0	25	8	12
Netherlands	7	5	1	1	20	9	11
Great Britain	7	4	1	2	15	10	9
Australia	7	3	2	2	18	8	8
New Zealand	7	2	3	2	16	11	7
Poland	7	2	2	3	12	12	6
Kenya	7	1	1	5	8	17	3
Mexico	7	0	0	7	1	40	0

August 27, 1972

• India – Netherlands 1-1 (1-1)
• Kenya – Poland 0-1 (0-1)
• Australia – New Zealand 0-0 (0-0)
• Great Britain – Mexico 6-0 (1-0)

August 28, 1972

• Australia – Kenya 3-1 (1-0)
• New Zealand – Mexico 7-0 (3-0)
• India – Great Britain 5-0 (4-0)
• Netherlands – Poland 4-2 (3-0)

August 30, 1972

• Poland – Mexico 3-0 (1-0)
• Netherlands – Kenya 5-1 (2-0)
• New Zealand – Great Britain 2-1 (2-0)
• Australia – India 1-3 (1-2)

August 31, 1972

• Kenya – Great Britain 0-2 (0-1)
• India – Poland 2-2 (1-0)
• Netherlands – New Zealand 2-0 (1-0)
• Australia – Mexico 10-0 (6-0)

September 2, 1972

• India – Kenya 3-2 (0-1)
• New Zealand – Poland 3-3 (1-2)
• Australia – Great Britain 1-1 (1-1)
• Netherlands – Mexico 4-0 (3-0)

September 3, 1972

• Netherlands – Great Britain 1-3 (1-1)
• Australia – Poland 1-0 (1-0)
• India – Mexico 8-0 (4-0)
• Kenya – New Zealand 2-2 (2-2)

September 4, 1972

• Australia – Netherlands 2-3 (1-3)
• Kenya – Mexico 2-1 (1-0)
• India – New Zealand 3-2 (1-1)
• Poland – Great Britain 1-2 (1-1)

Men's semi final round

September 7, 1972

• Australia – Malaysia 2-1 (0-1)
• Great Britain – Spain 2-0 (1-0)

September 8, 1972

• West Germany – Netherlands 3-0 (1-0)
• Pakistan – India 2-0 (2-0)

Men's classification matches

September 7, 1972

• 15th/16th place: Uganda – Mexico 4-1 (1-1)
• 13th/14th place: Argentina – Kenya 0-1 (0-0) after extra time

September 8, 1972

• 11th/12th place: France – Poland 4-7 (2-1) after extra time
• 9th/10th place: Belgium – New Zealand 1-2 (0-0)

September 9, 1972

• 7th/8th place: Malaysia – Spain 1-2 (0-2)
• 5th/6th place: Australia – Great Britain 2-1 (0-0) after extra time

Men's bronze medal match

September 10, 1972

Men's final

September 10, 1972

Final rankings

1.  West Germany
2.  Pakistan
3.  India
4.  Netherlands
5.  Australia
6.  Great Britain
7.  Spain
8.  Malaysia
9.  New Zealand
10.  Belgium
11.  Poland
12.  France
13.  Kenya
14.  Argentina
15.  Uganda
16.  Mexico

Remarks:

• Men's competition only in 1972
• It was the first ever gold medal lost by either Pakistan or India, former rulers in this sport.
• At the medal ceremony Pakistani players, as a protest against alleged biased and unfair decisions by the referee, put forth their foot to wear the medal then threw their silver medals at the floor and turned their backs as the German anthem played.

Men's medal winners

Gold	Silver	Bronze
West Germany (FRG) Wolfgang Baumgart Horst Drose Dieter Freise Werner Kaessmann Carsten Keller Detlev Kittstein Ulrich Klaes Peter Kraus Michael Krause Michael Peter Wolfgang Rott Fritz Schmidt Rainer Seifert Wolfgang Strodter Eckart Suhl Eduard Thelen Peter Trump Ulrich Vos	Pakistan (PAK) Rashid Abdul Akhtar Rasool Ul Akhtar Jahangir Butt Ur Fazal Islahuddin Siddique Muhammad Asad Malik Shahnaz Sheikh Munawwaruz Zaman Ahmad Riaz Saeed Anwar Saleem Sherwani Iftikar Syed Mudassar Syed Zahid Sheikh	India (IND) B. P. Govinda Charles Cornelius Manuel Frederick Michael Kindo Ashok Kumar M. P. Ganesh Krishnamurty Perumal Ajitpal Singh Harbinder Singh Harcharan Singh Harmik Singh Kulwant Singh Mukhbain Singh Virinder Singh

Participants

^[3]

Fourth Place

Netherlands

Fifth Place

Australia

Sixth Place

Great Britain [4]

Seventh Place

Spain

Eighth Place

Malaysia

References

• Official Olympic report