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Hockey, Men

Date	18 – 30 July 1976
Status	Olympic
Location	Stade Percival-Molson, Montréal, Québec
Participants	172 from 11 countries
Format	Round-robin pools advance teams to classification round matches.

This hockey tournament was the first to be played on artificial turf. The International Hockey Federation was initially opposed to this, but the Canadians claimed they would be unable to offer quality natural grass pitches for the entire tournament. Nowadays, all international matches are played on artificial surfaces. The number of participating nations had been cut back from 16 to 12, and was further reduced when Kenya joined the African boycott. Great Britain had lost to Belgium for the final qualifying position. Ghana was the next African team after Kenya, but they had played very poorly in qualifying so Britain was offered the spot when Kenya announced they would withdraw. However, Kenya did not notify the IOC of their withdrawal in time so the Fédération Internationale de Hockey (FIH) elected to play the tournament with only 11 teams. The British team was actually at Heathrow Airport when they heard the news, preparing to leave for Montreal, but they had to return to their homes.

The tournament had many upsets. 1975 World Champion India did not make the semi-finals, and neither did defending Olympic Champion West Germany. Oceanian nations Australia and New Zealand did make the cut, along with hockey powerhouses Pakistan and the Netherlands. The latter team had been unbeaten in pool play, and heavily underestimated their semi-final opponents, New Zealand. After three overtime periods, the Kiwis scored the winning goal from a penalty corner. The other country from “down under”, Australia, also upset their opponents 2-1, to make for a completely unexpected final line-up. This was even more surprising as the artificial turf was assumed to be an advantage to technically superior teams. The final was a rather boring affair, with Tony Ineson scoring the only goal on a penalty corner.

Pos	Number	Team	NOC	GP	Goals	Field Goals	Penalty Corner Goals	Penalty Stroke Goals	Long Corner Goals	Green Cards	Yellow Cards	Red Cards
1	–	New Zealand	NZL	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	Gold
	1	Paul Ackerley		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	2	Jeff Archibald		4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	3	Thur Borren		7	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
	4	Alan Chesney		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	5	John Christensen		7	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
	6	Greg Dayman		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	7	Tony Ineson		7	4	0	3	0	1	0	0	0
	8	Alan McIntyre		5	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
	10	Barry Maister		7	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
	11	Selwyn Maister		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	12	Trevor Manning		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	13	Arthur Parkin		5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	14	Mohan Patel		1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	15	Ramesh Patel		7	3	1	0	2	0	0	0	0
	–	Les Wilson DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	–	Neil McLeod DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Coach		Ross Gillespie
2	–	Australia	AUS	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	Silver
	1	Robert Haigh		8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	2	Ric Charlesworth		8	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
	3	David Bell		8	3	0	0	3	0	0	0	0
	4	Greg Browning		8	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
	5	Ian Cooke		4	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
	6	Barry Dancer		1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	7	Doug Golder		4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	8	Wayne Hammond		8	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
	9	Jim Irvine		8	2	0	2	0	0	6	0	0
	11	Malcolm Poole		8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	12	Bob Proctor		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	13	Graeme Reid		1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	14	Ron Riley		8	7	7	0	0	0	1	1	0
	15	Trevor Smith		8	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	0
	16	Terry Walsh		8	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0
	–	Steve Marshall DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Coach		Merv Adams
3	–	Pakistan	PAK	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	Bronze
	1	Salim Sherwani		2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	2	Manzoor-ul Hassan		4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	3	Munawar uz Zaman		6	6	0	3	0	3	1	1	0
	4	Saleem Nazim		6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	5	Akhtar Rasool		6	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	0
	6	Iftikhar Ahmed Syed		6	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
	7	Islah-ud-Din		6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	8	Manzoor Hussain		5	4	4	0	0	0	3	0	0
	9	Abdul Rashid		6	3	3	0	0	0	1	1	0
	10	Shahnaz Sheikh		5	3	2	0	0	1	0	0	0
	11	Samiullah		6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	12	Qamar Zia		4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	13	Arshad Mahmood		2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
	14	Arshad Ali Chaudry		1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	15	Mudassar Asghar		3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	16	Hanif Khan		3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Coach		Saeed Anwar
4	–	Netherlands	NED	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	1	Maarten Sikking		6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	2	André Bolhuis		6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	3	Tim Steens		1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	4	Geert van Eijk		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	5	Theo Doyer		4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
	6	Coen Kranenberg		7	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
	7	Rob Toft		1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	8	Wouter Leefers		7	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
	9	Hans Jorritsma		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
	10	Hans Kruize		6	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
	11	Jan Albers		1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	12	Paul Litjens		7	11	0	6	1	4	1	0	0
	13	Imbert Jebbink		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	14	Ron Steens		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	15	Bart Taminiau		7	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
	16	Wouter Kan		1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Coach		Wim van Heumen
5	–	West Germany	FRG	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	1	Wolfgang Rott		2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	2	Klaus Ludwiczak		4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	3	Michael Peter		6	3	0	0	3	0	2	0	0
	4	Dieter Freise		5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	5	Fritz Schmidt		3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	6	Michael Krause		3	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
	7	Horst Dröse		6	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
	8	Werner Kaessmann		6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
	9	Uli Vos		6	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
	10	Peter Caninenberg		3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	11	Peter Trump		4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
	12	Hans Montag		2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	13	Wolfgang Strödter		5	7	0	5	0	2	0	0	0
	14	Heiner Dopp		6	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
	15	Rainer Seifert		6	3	1	1	0	1	0	0	0
	16	Ralf Lauruschkat		6	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Coach		Klaus Kleiter
6	–	Spain	ESP	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	1	Alberto Carrera		6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	2	Juan Amat		7	7	0	6	0	1	0	0	0
	3	Jaime Arbós		7	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
	4	Juan Arbós		7	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
	5	Ricardo Cabot		6	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
	6	Juan Colomer		6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	7	Francisco Codina		2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	8	Agustín Churruca		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	9	Francisco Fábregas		4	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
	10	Jorge Fábregas		7	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
	11	Agustín Masana		1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	12	Juan Pellón		5	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
	13	Ramón Quintana		3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	14	José Sallés		7	2	1	0	1	0	2	0	0
	15	Francisco Segura		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	16	Luis Antonio Twose		1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Coach		Horst Wein
7	–	India	IND	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	1	Ajit Pal Singh		6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
	2	V. J. Phillips		7	3	1	0	2	0	1	0	0
	3	Baldev Singh		6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	4	Ashok Diwan		3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	5	B. P. Govinda		1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	6	Ashok Kumar		8	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
	7	Varinder Singh		8	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
	8	Harcharan Singh		7	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
	9	Mohinder Singh		8	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0
	10	Aslam Sher Khan		5	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
	11	Syed Ali		6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	12	Bir Bahadur Chettri		5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	13	Chand Singh		6	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
	14	Ajit Singh		8	3	3	0	0	0	2	0	0
	15	Surjit Singh		8	4	0	4	0	0	3	1	0
	16	Vasudevan Bhaskaran		4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Coach		Gurbux Singh
8	–	Malaysia	MAS	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	1	Khair-ud-Din bin Zainal		3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	2	Azaari Mohamed Zain		5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	3	Sri Shanmuganathan		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	4	Francis Belavantheran		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
	5	Lam Kok Meng		2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	6	Mohinder Singh Amar		3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	7	Wong Choon Hin		7	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
	8	Singaram Balasingam		6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	9	Nallasamy Padanisamy		6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	10	Rengasamy Ramakrishnan		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	11	Murugesan Mahendran		7	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	0
	12	Avtar Singh Gill		6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	13	Anthony D'Cruz		1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
	14	Poon Fook Loke		7	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
	15	Ramalingam Pathmarajah		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	16	Ow Soon Kooi		6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Coach		Mohamed Sidek Othman Encik
9	–	Belgium	BEL	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	1	Frank Smissaert		6	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
	2	Guy Miserque		6	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0
	4	Serge Dubois		6	4	0	3	0	1	0	0	0
	5	Bernard Smeekens		6	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
	6	Bernard Mauchien		4	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
	7	Paul Urbain		2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	8	Armand Solie		6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	9	Michel Vanderborght		5	2	1	0	0	1	2	1	1
	10	Carl-Eric Vanderborght		6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	11	Robert Maroye		6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	12	Bruno De Clynsen		2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
	13	Jean-François Gilles		6	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0
	14	Jean Toussaint		5	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
	15	Michel Van Tuyckom		6	2	0	2	0	0	1	0	0
	16	Jean-Claude Moraux		6	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
	–	Francis Bouché DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Coach		Ernst Willig
10	–	Canada	CAN	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	1	Jim MacDougall		5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	2	Sarbjit Singh Dusang		1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
	3	David Bissett		6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	4	Alan Hobkirk		6	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
	5	Reg Plummer		2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
	6	Lee Wright		1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	7	Lance Carey		5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	8	Peter Motzek		6	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
	9	Doug Pready		6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	10	Kelvin Wood		6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	11	Peter Lown		6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	12	Fred Hoos		5	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
	13	Bubli Chohan		6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
	14	Mike Mouat		4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	15	Kuldip Singh Gosal		3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	16	Antonie Schouten		6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Coach		Errol Hartley
11	–	Argentina	ARG	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	1	Julio César Cufre		6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	2	Jorge Sabbione		5	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0
	3	Jorge Disera		6	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
	4	Jorge Ruiz		2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
	5	Marcelo Pazos		3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	6	Osvaldo Zanni		3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	7	Jorge Ivorra		1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	8	Luis Antonio Costa		6	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
	9	Marcelo Garrafo		6	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
	10	Flávio de Giacomi		3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	11	Fernando Calp		6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	12	Alberto Sabbione		6	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
	13	Daniel Portugués		6	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
	14	Alfredo Quaquarini		6	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
	15	Gustavo Paolucci		6	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
	16	César Raguso		1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Coach		Mario Ranalli
DNS	–	Kenya	KEN	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	–	Raphael Fernandes DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	–	Renny Pereira DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	–	Tarlochan Singh Channa DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	–	Brajinder Singh Daved DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	–	Davinder Singh Deegan DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	–	Amarjeet Singh Marwa DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	–	Surjeet Singh Rihal DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	–	Arif Chaudhry DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	–	Edwin Were DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	–	Joseph Ndungu DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	–	Kuljeet Dhak DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	–	Naran Rajput DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	–	Patrick Martins DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	–	Pradeep Singh Giddie DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	–	Satpal Marwa DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	–	Shabir Bhatti DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Coach		?

Preliminary Round

Date	18 – 26 July 1976

Group A

Date	18 – 26 July 1976
Format	Round-robin pool.

Pos	Team	NOC	Wins	Losses	Points	Goals
1	Netherlands	NED	5	0	10	11-3	Q
2	Australia	AUS	4	2	8	15-7	Q
3	India	IND	3	3	6	13-10
4	Malaysia	MAS	2	3	4	3-7
5	Canada	CAN	1	4	2	4-11
6	Argentina	ARG	1	4	2	4-12

Match	Date/Time	Team	NOC	Result	Team	NOC
Match #1	18 Jul 10:00	India	IND	4 – 0	Argentina	ARG
Match #2	18 Jul 12:00	Australia	AUS	2 – 0	Malaysia	MAS
Match #3	19 Jul 15:00	Netherlands	NED	3 – 1	India	IND
Match #4	19 Jul 17:00	Australia	AUS	3 – 0	Canada	CAN
Match #5	20 Jul 10:00	Netherlands	NED	2 – 0	Malaysia	MAS
Match #6	20 Jul 12:00	Canada	CAN	3 – 1	Argentina	ARG
Match #7	21 Jul 15:00	Australia	AUS	6 – 1	India	IND
Match #8	21 Jul 17:00	Malaysia	MAS	2 – 0	Argentina	ARG
Match #9	22 Jul 10:00	India	IND	3 – 0	Canada	CAN
Match #10	22 Jul 12:00	Netherlands	NED	2 – 1	Australia	AUS
Match #11	23 Jul 15:00	Netherlands	NED	1 – 0	Argentina	ARG
Match #12	23 Jul 17:00	Malaysia	MAS	1 – 0	Canada	CAN
Match #13	24 Jul 10:00	India	IND	3 – 0	Malaysia	MAS
Match #14	24 Jul 12:00	Argentina	ARG	3 – 2	Australia	AUS
Match #15	25 Jul 17:00	Netherlands	NED	3 – 1	Canada	CAN
Play-off	26 Jul 13:00	Australia	AUS	1 – 1	India	IND	AET, 5-4 PS

Group B

Date	18 – 26 July 1976
Format	Round-robin pool.

Pos	Team	NOC	Wins	Ties	Losses	Points	Goals
1	Pakistan	PAK	3	1	0	7	16-6	Q
2	New Zealand	NZL	2	2	1	6	7-8	Q
3	Spain	ESP	1	2	2	4	9-8
4	West Germany	FRG	1	1	2	3	10-10
5	Belgium	BEL	1	0	3	2	5-15

Match	Date/Time	Team	NOC	Result	Team	NOC
Match #1	18 Jul 15:00	Pakistan	PAK	5 – 0	Belgium	BEL
Match #2	18 Jul 17:00	West Germany	FRG	1 – 1	New Zealand	NZL
Match #3	19 Jul 10:00	Spain	ESP	2 – 2	Pakistan	PAK
Match #4	20 Jul 15:00	Spain	ESP	1 – 1	New Zealand	NZL
Match #5	21 Jul 10:00	Pakistan	PAK	4 – 2	West Germany	FRG
Match #6	21 Jul 12:00	New Zealand	NZL	2 – 1	Belgium	BEL
Match #7	22 Jul 17:00	Spain	ESP	4 – 1	West Germany	FRG
Match #8	23 Jul 10:00	Belgium	BEL	3 – 2	Spain	ESP
Match #9	24 Jul 15:00	Pakistan	PAK	5 – 2	New Zealand	NZL
Match #10	24 Jul 17:00	West Germany	FRG	6 – 1	Belgium	BEL
Play-off	26 Jul 16:00	New Zealand	NZL	1 – 0	Spain	ESP	AET

Classification Round 5-8

Date	29 July 1976
Format	Classification matches.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	29 Jul 12:00	Spain	ESP	2 – 1	Malaysia	MAS
Match #2	29 Jul 17:00	West Germany	FRG	3 – 2	India	IND

Classification Round 9-11

Date	28 July 1976
Format	Classification matches.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	28 Jul 12:00	Belgium	BEL	3 – 2	Argentina	ARG	AET

Semi-Finals

Date	28 July 1976
Format	Single-elimination.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	28 Jul 15:00	Australia	AUS	2 – 1	Pakistan	PAK
Match #2	28 Jul 17:00	New Zealand	NZL	2 – 1	Netherlands	NED	AET

Final Round

Date	28 – 30 July 1976
Format	Medal round.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match 1/2	30 Jul 17:00	New Zealand	NZL	1 – 0	Australia	AUS
Match 3/4	30 Jul 15:00	Pakistan	PAK	3 – 2	Netherlands	NED
Match 5/6	30 Jul 12:00	West Germany	FRG	9 – 1	Spain	ESP
Match 7/8	30 Jul 10:00	India	IND	2 – 0	Malaysia	MAS
Match 9/10	29 Jul 10:00	Belgium	BEL	3 – 2	Canada	CAN	AET