Field hockey at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Field hockey at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Venues	Guinness Ground, Park Royal Lyons' Ground, Sudbury Polytechnic Ground, Chiswick Wembley Stadium
Dates	July 31 – August 13, 1948
Competitors	187 from 13 nations
Medalists
India   Great Britain   Netherlands

Final results for the field hockey competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics: ^[1]

Only a men's competition occurred that year.

Medal summary

Gold	Silver	Bronze
India (IND) Leslie Claudius Keshav Dutt Walter D'Souza Lawrie Fernandes Ranganathan Francis Gerry Glackan Akhtar Hussain Patrick Jansen Amir Kumar Kishan Lal Leo Pinto Jaswant Singh Rajput Latif-ur-Rehman Reginald Rodrigues Balbir Singh Sr. Randhir Singh Gentle Grahanandan Singh K. D. Singh Trilochan Singh Maxie Vaz	Great Britain (GBR) Robert Adlard Norman Borrett David Brodie Ronald Davis W O Greene William Griffiths E J E Hitchman Frederick Lindsay William Lindsay John Peake Frank Reynolds George Sime (c) D B Thomas Michael Walford P Whitbread William White A H Young [2]	Netherlands (NED) André Boerstra Henk Bouwman Piet Bromberg Harry Derckx Han Drijver Dick Esser Roepie Kruize Jenne Langhout Dick Loggere Ton Richter Eddy Tiel Wim van Heel

Note: The International Olympic Committee medal database shows also only these players as medalists. They all played at least one match during the tournament. The reserve players are not listed as medalists.

Results

The first of each group and also the second of Group C qualified for the Semi-finals.

Group A

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
1.	India (IND)	3	3	0	0	19	1	6		X	9:1	8:0	2:0
2.	Argentina (ARG)	3	1	1	1	5	12	3		1:9	X	1:1	3:2
3.	Austria (AUT)	3	0	2	1	2	10	2		0:8	1:1	X	1:1
4.	Spain (ESP)	3	0	1	2	3	6	1		0:2	2:3	1:1	X

Group B

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
1.	Great Britain (GBR)	3	2	1	0	19	0	5		X	0:0	8:0	11:0
2.	Switzerland (SUI)	3	1	2	0	4	2	4		0:0	X	1:1	3:1
3.	Afghanistan (AFG)	3	1	1	1	3	9	3		0:8	1:1	X	2:0
4.	United States (USA)	3	0	0	3	1	16	0		0:11	1:3	0:2	X

Group C

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
1.	Pakistan (PAK)	4	4	0	0	20	3	8		X	6:1	2:1	3:1	9:0
2.	Netherlands (NED)	4	3	0	1	11	8	6		1:6	X	4:1	2:0	4:1
3.	Belgium (BEL)	4	2	0	2	6	8	4		1:2	1:4	X	2:1	2:1
4.	France (FRA)	4	0	1	3	4	9	1		1:3	0:2	1:2	X	2:2
5.	Denmark (DEN)	4	0	1	3	4	17	1		0:9	1:4	1:2	2:2	X

Semi-finals

Great Britain (GBR)	2 – 0	Pakistan (PAK)
India (IND)	2 – 1	Netherlands (NED)

Bronze medal match

Netherlands (NED)	1 – 1	Pakistan (PAK)
Netherlands (NED)	4 – 1	Pakistan (PAK)

Final

12 August 1948 India  4 – 0  Great Britain G. Singh  3', 10?' Jansen Pinto Report Wembley Stadium Umpires: Rogge (NED) Lombaert (BEL)

Participating nations

A total of 187(*) field hockey players from 13 nations competed at the London Games:

• Afghanistan (14)
• Argentina (12)
• Austria (12)
• Belgium (13)
• Denmark (16)
• France (14)
• Great Britain (12)
• India (20)
• Netherlands (12)
• Pakistan (19)
• Spain (14)
• Switzerland (15)
• United States (14)

(*) NOTE: There are only players counted, which participated in one game at least.

Summary

Place	Nation
1	India (IND)
2	Great Britain (GBR)
3	Netherlands (NED)
4	Pakistan (PAK) Masood Ahmed Khan M Anwar Beg Moghal Mukhtar Bhatti Hamidullah Burki Ali Iqtidar Shah Dara (captain) Milton D'Mello Abdul Hamid Mahmoodul Hassan Abdul Ghafoor Khan Abdul Qayyum Khan Niaz Khan Shahzada Khurram Aziz Malik Abdul Razzaq Azizur Rehman Sheikh Rehmat Ullah Syed Muhammad Salim Shahzada Muhammad Shah-Rukh (vice-captain) Khawaja Muhammad Taqi
-	Argentina (ARG) Roberto Anderson Luis Bianchi Juan Brigo Roberto Márquez Carlos Mercali Tomas Quinn Valerio Sánchez Luis Scally Tomas Scally Tomas Wade Jorge Wilson Antonio Zucchi Oscar Arata Guillermo Dolan Oscar Vinnue
-	Switzerland (SUI) Roland Eger Otto Grolimund Emil Grub Jean Gruner Roger Jenzer Fritz Kehrer Fridolin Kurmann Pierre Pasche Jean Rippstein Jean-Pierre Roche Alois Schlee Eugen Siegrist Fritz Stuhlinger Karl Vogt Hans Walser
-	Belgium (BEL) Lucien Boekmans Robert Cayman Henri Delaval José Delaval Jean Dubois Jean Enderle Roger Goossens Jacques Kielbaye Harold Mechelynck Henri Niemegeerts Joseph van Muylders Lucien van Weydeveld André Waterkeyn Jean-Marie Jadoul Jean-Jacques Moucq Paul Toussaint
-	Austria (AUT) Adam Bischof Karl Brandl Karl Holzapfel Johann Koller Franz Lovato Walter Niederle Oskar Nowak Karl Ördögh Franz Raule Friedrich Rückert Ernst Schala Franz Strachota Siegfried Egger Wolfgang Klee Josef Pecanka
-	Afghanistan (AFG) Mohammad Attai G.Jagi Mohammad Khogaini Bakhteyar Gulam Mangal Abdul Kadir Nuristani Ahmed Jahan Nuristani Din Mohammad Nuristani Jahan Gulam Nuristani Mohammad Jahan Nuristani Mohammad Kadir Nuristani Mohammad Amin Nuristani Ahmad Tajik Khan Nasrullah Totakhail Ahmad Yusufzai
-	France (FRA) Bernard Boone Jacques Butin Guy Chevalier Jean-François Dubessay Claude Hauet Jean Hauet Michel Lacroix Robert Lucas Diran Manoukian André Meyer Philippe Reynaud Jean Rouget Jacques Thieffry Pierre Vandame
-	Spain (ESP) Manuel Agustín Jaime Allende Ricardo Cabot Boix Juan del Campo Enrique Estébanos Vela Pedro Farreras Valenti Pedro Gasset Eduardo Jardón Ron Fernando Jardón Ron Francisco Jardón Ron Luis Pratsmasó Manuel Royes Bohigas Rafael Ruiz Enrique Sáinz Ortueta
-	United States (USA) Donald Buck Claus Gerson Henry Goode Frederick Hewitt William Kurtz Hendrick Lubbers Harry Marcoplos Kurt Orban John Renwick Sanders Sims John Slade Walter Stude Felix Ucko William Wilson David Cuffmann Phillip Schoettle
-	Denmark (DEN) Preben Blach Ernest Bohr Otto Busch Eigil Hansen Jørgen Robert Hansen Vagn Hansen Johannes Robert Jensen Egon Johansen Svend Jørgensen Vagn Loft Erling Nielsen Jørgen Boye Nielsen Poul Moll Nielsen Henrik Sørensen Thormod Thomsen Mogens Venge

References

1. "Hockey at the 1948 London Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 2016-06-01.
2. "Our Hockey Correspondent. "Hockey." Times [London, England] 7 July 1948". The Times Digital Archive.

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