Field hockey at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Field hockey at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Field hockey at the 1964 Olympics on a stamp of Japan
Venue	Komazawa Hockey Field
Dates	October 11–23, 1964
Competitors	226 from 15 nations
Medalists
India   Pakistan   Australia

Field hockey at the 1964 Summer Olympics was a sport open only to men. 15 teams played in the field hockey competition. ^[1]

Results

Gold	Silver	Bronze
India (IND) Haripal Kaushik Mohinder Lal Shankar Lakshman Bandu Patil John Peter Ali Sayed Udham Singh Kullar Charanjit Singh Darshan Singh Dharam Singh Gurbux Singh Harbinder Singh Jagjit Singh Joginder Singh Prithipal Singh	Pakistan (PAK) Abdul Hamid Muhammad Asad Malik Munir Dar Mahmood Khalid Anwar Khan Nawaz Khizar Azam Khurshid Muhammad Manna Manzoor Hussain Atif Mohammed Rashid Motiullah Tariq Niazi Saeed Anwar Aziz Tariq Hayat Zafar Uddin Zaka	Australia (AUS) Mervyn Crossman Paul Dearing Raymond Evans Brian Glencross Robin Hodder John McBryde Donald McWatters Patrick Nilan Eric Pearce Julian Pearce Desmond Piper Donald Smart Anthony Waters Graham Wood

Events

Men's field hockey

Final ranking

1.	India (IND)
2.	Pakistan (PAK)
3.	Australia (AUS)
4.	Spain (ESP)
5.	United Team of Germany (EUA)
6.	Kenya (KEN)
7.	Japan (JPN)
	Netherlands (NED)
9.	Great Britain (GBR)
	Malaysia (MAS)
11.	Belgium (BEL)
	Rhodesia (RHO)
13.	Canada (CAN)
	New Zealand (NZL)
15.	Hong Kong (HKG)

Preliminary round

The preliminary round was conducted by breaking the 15 teams into two groups of 7 and 8 teams. The groups then played a round-robin tournament with each team playing the other teams in the group once. 2 points were awarded for a win, 1 point for a tie, and 0 for a loss. The top two teams from each group advanced to the semifinals while the third and fourth played in consolation semifinals.

Group A

Place	Team	Wins	Ties	Losses	Points
1.	Pakistan (PAK)	6	0	0	12 QS
2.	Australia (AUS)	4	0	2	8 QS
3.	Kenya (KEN)	3	1	2	7 QC
4.	Japan (JPN)	3	0	3	6 QC
5.	Great Britain (GBR)	2	0	4	4
6.	Rhodesia (RHO)	1	1	4	3
7.	New Zealand (NZL)	1	0	5	2

• Pakistan def. Australia 2-1
• Pakistan def. Kenya 5-2
• Pakistan def. Japan 1-0
• Pakistan def. Great Britain 1-0
• Pakistan def. Rhodesia 6-0
• Pakistan def. New Zealand 2-0
• Kenya def. Australia 1-0
• Australia def. Japan 3-1
• Australia def. Great Britain 7-0
• Australia def. Rhodesia 3-0
• Australia def. New Zealand 2-1
• Japan def. Kenya 2-0
• Kenya def. Great Britain 1-0
• Kenya tied Rhodesia 0-0
• Kenya def. New Zealand 3-2
• Great Britain def. Japan 1-0
• Japan def. Rhodesia 2-1
• Japan def. New Zealand 1-0
• Great Britain def. Rhodesia 4-1
• New Zealand def. Great Britain 2-0
• Rhodesia def. New Zealand 2-1

Group B

Place	Team	Wins	Ties	Losses	Points
1.	India (IND)	5	2	0	12 QS
2.	Spain (ESP)	4	3	0	11 QS
3.	United Team of Germany (EUA)	2	5	0	9 QC
4.	Netherlands (NED)	4	1	2	9 QC
5.	Malaysia (MAS)	2	2	3	6
6.	Belgium (BEL)	2	2	3	6
7.	Canada (CAN)	1	0	6	2
8.	Hong Kong (HKG)	0	1	6	1

• India tied Spain 1-1
• India tied United Team of Germany 1-1
• India def. Netherlands 2-1
• India def. Malaysia 3-1
• India def. Belgium 2-0
• India def. Canada 3-0
• India def. Hong Kong 6-0
• Spain tied United Team of Germany 1-1
• Spain tied Netherlands 1-1
• Spain def. Malaysia 3-0
• Spain def. Belgium 3-0
• Spain def. Canada 3-0
• Spain def. Hong Kong 4-0
• United Team of Germany def. Netherlands 1-0
• United Team of Germany tied Malaysia 0-0
• United Team of Germany tied Belgium 0-0
• United Team of Germany def. Canada 5-1
• United Team of Germany tied Hong Kong 1-1
• Netherlands def. Malaysia 2-0
• Netherlands def. Belgium 4-0
• Netherlands def. Canada 5-0
• Netherlands def. Hong Kong 7-0
• Malaysia tied Belgium 3-3
• Malaysia def. Canada 3-1
• Malaysia def. Hong Kong 4-1
• Belgium def. Canada 5-1
• Belgium def. Hong Kong 2-0
• Canada def. Hong Kong 2-1

Semifinals

The top two teams in each of the groups played in the 1st-4th semifinals, with the winner of each group playing the second-place team in the other group. The third and fourth team in each group played in the consolation semifinals

Round	Winner	Score	Loser
Consolation	Kenya (KEN)	3-1	Netherlands (NED)
	United Team of Germany (EUA)	5-1	Japan (JPN)
Semifinals	Pakistan (PAK)	3-0	Spain (ESP)
	India (IND)	3-1	Australia (AUS)

Finals

The winners of the semifinals played for the gold and silver medals, while the losers played for the bronze medal and 4th place. The winners of the consolation semifinals played for 5th and 6th places.

Game	Winner	Score	Loser
5th/6th	United Team of Germany (EUA)	3-0	Kenya (KEN)
Bronze medal	Australia (AUS)	3-2	Spain (ESP)
Gold medal	India (IND)	1-0	Pakistan (PAK)

Participants

Ninth Place

Great Britain [2] [3]

John Frank Cadman Harry Alexander Cahill (Ire) Michael Wells Corby Geoffrey Michael Cutter (Wal) Jim Deegan Francis Howard Vincent Davis (capt)

Paul Darrell Fishwick John A Hindle Charles Ian McMillan Jones Harold David Judge (Ire) John James Land Chris Langhorne

Derek Robert Miller John W. Neill Alan Graham Page Roger Macklin Sutton (Wal) David Michael Veit David Wilman

References

1. "Hockey at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 2016-06-02.
2. "OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. "Land Included In Hockey XI." Times [London, England] 9 Oct. 1964". The Times Digital Archive.
3. "Our Special Correspondent-KOMAZAWA, OCT. 12. "The Old Story Of Failure To Finish." Times [London, England] 13 Oct. 1964". The Times Digital Archive.

Sources

• Tokyo Organizing Committee (1964). The Games of the XVIII Olympiad: Tokyo 1964, vol. 2.