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Hockey, Men

Date20 July – 2 August 1996
StatusOlympic
LocationAlonzo Herndon Stadium, Morris Brown College, Atlanta, Georgia / Panther Stadium, Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia
Participants192 from 12 countries
FormatRound-robin pools advance teams to classification round matches.

The Dutch had been a force in field hockey since the 1928 Olympics, winning the World Championships on two occasions. However, by 1996 they had never won an Olympic title had lost their last four Olympic semi-finals, having to settle for 3rd or 4th. In recent years, they had bad luck in major events, giving away leads in the finals of the 1994 World Championships and 1995 European Championships. In Atlanta, the Dutch reached their first Olympic final in 44 years, beating archrivals Germany thanks to three goals by Taco van den Honert. The other contender for the gold medal turned out to be Spain. This was a major surprise as they had only placed 9th at the 1994 World Championships. Wins over Germany and Australia made them deserved finalists.

Spain even took the lead in the final through star player Víctor Pujol. This unleashed the Dutch, and specialist Floris Jan Bovelander pushed two penalty corners behind the Spanish goalkeeper. The victory was sealed shortly before full time, with a third penalty corner goal by Bram Lomans. The medals were presented by IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch, himself a former roller hockey player, who had hoped to award the gold to his countrymen. Dutch prime minister Wim Kok, in attendance, commented “we’ll gladly leave the silver fleet to the Spanish”, referring to the 1628 capture of a Spanish treasure fleet by Dutch privateer Piet Hein.

PosNumberTeamNOC
1NetherlandsNEDGold
1Ronald Jansen
2Bram Lomans
3Leo Klein Gebbink
4Erik Jazet
5Tycho van Meer
6Wouter van Pelt
7Marc Delissen
8Jacques Brinkman
9Maurits Crucq
10Stephan Veen
11Floris Jan Bovelander
12Jeroen Delmée
13Guus Vogels
14Teun de Nooijer
15Remco van Wijk
16Taco van den Honert
CoachRoelant Oltmans
2SpainESPSilver
1Ramón Jufresa
2Óscar Barrena
3Quim Malgosa
4Jordi Arnau
5Juantxo García-Mauriño
6Jaime Amat
7Juan Escarré
8Víctor Pujol
9Ignacio Cobos
10Xavier Escudé
11Xavi Arnau
12Ramón Sala
13Juan Antonio Dinarés
14Pol Amat
15Pablo Usoz
16Antonio González
CoachToni Forrellat
3AustraliaAUSBronze
1Mark Hager
2Stephen Davies
3Baeden Choppy
4Lachlan Elmer
5Stuart Carruthers
6Grant Smith
7Damon Diletti
8Lachlan Dreher
9Brendan Garard
10Paul Gaudoin
11Paul Lewis
12Matthew Smith
13Jay Stacy
14Daniel Sproule
15Ken Wark
16Michael York
CoachFrank Murray
4GermanyGER
1Christopher Reitz
2Michael Knauth
3Jan Peter Tewes
4Carsten Fischer
5Büdi Blunck
6Stefan Saliger
7Björn Emmerling
8Patrick Bellenbaum
9Sven Meinhardt
10Christoph Bechmann
11Oliver Domke
12Andreas Becker
13Michael Green
14Klaus Michler
15Volker Fried
16Christian Mayerhöfer
CoachPaul Lissek
5Republic of KoreaKOR
1Gu Jin-Su
2Sin Seok-Gyo
3Han Byeong-Guk
4Yu Myeong-Gun
5Jo Myeong-Jun
6Jeon Jong-Ha
7Yu Seung-Jin
8Park Sin-Heung
9Gang Geon-Uk
10Kim Jong-Lee
11Jeong Yong-Gyun
12Song Seong-Tae
13Kim Yong-Bae
14Hong Gyeong-Seop
15Kim Yeong-Gwi
16Kim Yun
CoachJeon Jae-Hong
6PakistanPAK
1Mansoor Ahmed
2Danish Kalim
3Naveed Alam
4Muhammad Usman
5Muhammad Khalid
6Muhammad Shafqat Malik
7Muhammad Sarwar
8Tahir Zaman
9Kamran Ashraf
10Muhammad Shahbaz
11Shahbaz Ahmed
12Khalid Mahmood
13Mujahid Ali Rana
14Irfan Mahmood
15Aleem Raza
16Rahim Khan
CoachJahangir Butt
7Great BritainGBR
1Simon Mason
2David Luckes
3Jon Wyatt
4Julian Halls
5Soma Singh
6Simon Hazlitt
7Jason Laslett
8Kalbir Singh Takher
9Jason Lee
10Nicky Thompson
11Chris Mayer
12Phillip McGuire
13Russell Garcia
14John Shaw
15Calum Giles
16Danny Hall
CoachJon Copp
8IndiaIND
1Subbaiah Anjaparavanda
2Harpreet Singh
3Riaz Nabi Muhammad
4Sanjeev Kumar
5Baljit Singh Saini
6Sabu Varkey
7Mukesh Kumar Nandanoori
8Rahul Singh
9Dhanraj Pillay
10Pargat Singh
11Baljit Singh Dhillon
12Alloysius Edwards
13Anil Alexander Aldrin
14Gavin Ferreira
15Ramandeep Singh Grewal
16Dilip Kumar Tirkey
CoachCedric D'Souza
9ArgentinaARG
1Pablo Moreira
2Jorge Querejeta
3Edgardo Pailos
4Diego Chiodo
5Alejandro Doherty
6Fernando Moresi
7Rodolfo Pérez
8Carlos Retegui
9Jorge Lombi
10Gabriel Minadeo
11Fernando Ferrara
12Leandro Baccaro
13Rodolfo Schmitt
14Santiago Capurro
15Max Caldas
16Pablo Lombi
CoachMiguel MacCormik
10South AfricaRSA
1Brian Myburgh
2Brad Milne
3Shaun Cooke
4Craig Jackson
5Craig Fulton
6Brad Michalaro
7Gregg Clark
8Gary Boddington
9Allistar Fredericks
10Wayne Graham
11Kevin Chree
12Charles Teversham
13Greg Nicol
14Matthew Hallowes
15Grant Fulton
16Murray Anderson
CoachGavin Featherstone
11MalaysiaMAS
1Mohamed Nasihin Nubli Ibrahim
2Maninderjit Singh Magmar
3Lailin Abu Hassan
4Brian Jaya Siva
5Lim Chiow Chuan
6Charles David
7Chairil Anwar Abdul Aziz
8Lam Mun Fatt
9Shankar Ramu
10Nor Saiful Zaini Nasir-ud-Din
11Kaliswaran Muniandy
12Aphthar Singh Piara
13Mirnawan Nawawi
14Calvin Fernandez
15Kuhan Shanmuganathan
16Hamdan Hamzah
CoachVolker Knapp
12United StatesUSA
1Tom Vano
2Steve Danielson
3Larry Amar
4Marq Mellor
5Scott Williams
6Steve Jennings
7Steven van Randwijck
8Mark Wentges
9John O'Neill
10Eelco Wassenaar
11Nick Butcher
12Ahmed Elmaghraby
13Phil Sykes
14Otto Steffers
15Ben Maruquin
16Steve Wagner
CoachJonathan Clark

Preliminary Round

Date20 – 29 July 1996

Group A

Date20 – 28 July 1996
FormatRound-robin pool.
PosTeamNOCWinsTiesLossesPointsGoals
1SpainESP4011214-5Q
2GermanyGER3111010-3Q
3IndiaIND22188-3
4PakistanPAK212711-8
5ArgentinaARG20369-13
6United StatesUSA00503-23
MatchDate/TimeTeamNOCResultTeamNOC
Match #120 Jul 9:00SpainESP1 – 0GermanyGER
Match #220 Jul 17:30PakistanPAK4 – 0United StatesUSA
Match #320 Jul 20:00ArgentinaARG1 – 0IndiaIND
Match #422 Jul 9:00SpainESP3 – 0PakistanPAK
Match #522 Jul 17:30GermanyGER1 – 1IndiaIND
Match #622 Jul 20:00ArgentinaARG5 – 2United StatesUSA
Match #724 Jul 9:00IndiaIND4 – 0United StatesUSA
Match #824 Jul 17:30SpainESP2 – 1ArgentinaARG
Match #924 Jul 20:00GermanyGER3 – 1PakistanPAK
Match #1026 Jul 9:00GermanyGER3 – 0ArgentinaARG
Match #1126 Jul 17:30IndiaIND0 – 0PakistanPAK
Match #1226 Jul 20:00SpainESP7 – 1United StatesUSA
Match #1328 Jul 9:00PakistanPAK6 – 2ArgentinaARG
Match #1428 Jul 17:30GermanyGER3 – 0United StatesUSA
Match #1528 Jul 20:00IndiaIND3 – 1SpainESP

Group B

Date21 – 29 July 1996
FormatRound-robin pool.
PosTeamNOCWinsTiesLossesPointsGoals
1NetherlandsNED4101314-6Q
2AustraliaAUS3111013-7Q
3Great BritainGBR13168-8
4Republic of KoreaKOR122512-13
5South AfricaRSA03237-12
6MalaysiaMAS02327-15
MatchDate/TimeTeamNOCResultTeamNOC
Match #121 Jul 9:00NetherlandsNED2 – 0MalaysiaMAS
Match #221 Jul 17:30Great BritainGBR2 – 2Republic of KoreaKOR
Match #321 Jul 20:00AustraliaAUS1 – 1South AfricaRSA
Match #423 Jul 9:00Great BritainGBR2 – 2NetherlandsNED
Match #523 Jul 17:30MalaysiaMAS2 – 2South AfricaRSA
Match #623 Jul 20:00AustraliaAUS3 – 2Republic of KoreaKOR
Match #725 Jul 9:00Republic of KoreaKOR3 – 3South AfricaRSA
Match #825 Jul 17:30Great BritainGBR2 – 2MalaysiaMAS
Match #925 Jul 20:00NetherlandsNED3 – 2AustraliaAUS
Match #1027 Jul 9:00AustraliaAUS5 – 1MalaysiaMAS
Match #1127 Jul 17:30Great BritainGBR2 – 0South AfricaRSA
Match #1227 Jul 20:00NetherlandsNED3 – 1Republic of KoreaKOR
Match #1329 Jul 9:00AustraliaAUS2 – 0Great BritainGBR
Match #1429 Jul 17:30Republic of KoreaKOR4 – 2MalaysiaMAS
Match #1529 Jul 20:00NetherlandsNED4 – 1South AfricaRSA

Classification Round 5-8

Date31 July 1996
FormatClassification matches.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #131 Jul 11:00Republic of KoreaKOR3 – 3IndiaIND5-3 PS
Match #231 Jul 11:00PakistanPAK2 – 1Great BritainGBR

Classification Round 9-12

Date31 July 1996
FormatClassification matches.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #131 Jul 8:30ArgentinaARG4 – 4MalaysiaMAS3-0 PS
Match #231 Jul 8:30South AfricaRSA3 – 0United StatesUSA

Semi-Finals

Date31 July 1996
FormatSingle-elimination.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #131 Jul 17:30SpainESP2 – 1AustraliaAUS
Match #231 Jul 20:00NetherlandsNED3 – 1GermanyGER

Final Round

Date1 – 2 August 1996
FormatMedal round.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match 1/202 Aug 19:30NetherlandsNED3 – 1SpainESP
Match 3/402 Aug 17:00AustraliaAUS3 – 2GermanyGER
Match 5/602 Aug 8:30Republic of KoreaKOR3 – 1PakistanPAK
Match 7/801 Aug 11:00Great BritainGBR4 – 3IndiaIND
Match 9/1001 Aug 8:30ArgentinaARG3 – 2South AfricaRSA
Match 11/1201 Aug 8:30MalaysiaMAS4 – 1United StatesUSA