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Hockey, Men

Date	15 – 25 July 1952
Status	Olympic
Location	Helsingin Velodromi, Helsinki / Porvoon Keskuskenttä, Porvoo / Kaurialan Kenttä, Hämeenlinna
Participants	157 from 12 countries
Format	Single elimination tournament.

In contrast to the previous Olympics, the hockey tournament of 1952 was conducted as a single-elimination tournament. The top four teams of London were again seeded. They started competition only in the quarter-finals, and all four reached the semi-finals. Pakistan, which featured Latif-ur Rehman, Olympic champion with India in 1948, lost to the Dutch, while Britain’s second Olympic encounter with former colony India again ended in a loss. The final belonged to Balbir Singh Dosanjh, flagbearer of the Indian team in Helsinki. He scored five of his team’s six goals in the final, reaching a total of 9 for the tournament.

Pos	Number	Team	NOC	GP	Goals
1	–	India	IND	–	–	Gold
	1	Chinnadorai Desamuthu		1	0
	2	Dharam Singh Gill		3	0
	3	Randhir Singh Gentle		3	1
	4	Govind Perumal		3	0
	5	Keshav Dutt		3	0
	6	Meldric daLuz		1	0
	7	Raghbir Lal		3	1
	8	Kunwar Digvijay Singh		3	2
	9	Balbir Singh, Sr.		3	9
	10	Udham Singh		2	0
	11	Muniswamy Rajagopal		3	0
	12	Ranganathan Francis		2	0
	13	Leslie Claudius		2	0
	14	G. Nandy Singh		1	0
	–	Swarup Singh DNS		–	–
	–	Jaswant Rajput DNS		–	–
	–	G. Singh Dubley DNS		–	–
	–	Chaman Singh Gurung DNS		–	–
Coach		Harbail Singh
2	–	Netherlands	NED	–	–	Silver
	1	Lau Mulder		3	0
	2	Harry Derckx		3	0
	3	Han Drijver		3	0
	4	Jules Ancion		3	0
	5	Dick Loggere		3	0
	6	Eddy Tiel		3	0
	7	Wim van Heel		3	0
	10	Dick Esser		3	2
	9	Roepie Kruize		3	0
	8	André Boerstra		3	0
	11	Leo Wery		3	1
Coach		Rein de Waal
3	–	Great Britain	GBR	–	–	Bronze
	1	Graham Dadds		1	0
	3	Roger Midgley		3	0
	5	Denys Carnill		3	0
	7	John Cockett		3	0
	8	Dennis Eagan		3	0
	9	Anthony Robinson		3	0
	10	Tony Nunn		3	0
	11	Robin Fletcher		3	1
	13	Richard Norris		3	1
	15	John Conroy		3	1
	12	John Taylor		1	0
	2	Derek Day		2	0
	14	Neil Nugent		2	1
	–	Peter Smith DNS		–	–
	–	Stephen Theobald DNS		–	–
	–	Bill Lindsay-Smith DNS		–	–
Coach		Robert Fison
4	–	Pakistan	PAK	–	–
	12	Abdul Hamid		3	3
	15	Aziz Malik		3	2
	14	Latif Mir		2	1
	1	Qazi Abdul Waheed		3	0
	5	Asghar Ali Khan		3	0
	9	Habib Ali Kiddie		3	0
	18	Habibur Rehman		1	0
	7	Jack Britto		3	0
	16	Latif-ur Rehman		3	0
	10	Mahmood-ul Hassan		3	1
	4	Manzoor Hussain Atif		3	0
	3	Niaz Khan		3	0
	–	Abdul Qayyum Khan DNS		–	–
	–	Khurshid Aslam DNS		–	–
	–	Asmat Ali DNS		–	–
	–	Muhammad Rafiq DNS		–	–
	–	Safdar Ali Babul DNS		–	–
Coach		Basir Ali Sheikh
=5	–	Austria	AUT	–	–
	0	Franz Raule		1	–
	1	Walter Kaitna		3	0
	2	Karl Holzapfel		4	0
	3	Alfred Knoll		4	0
	4	Josef Matz		4	1
	5	Ernst Schala		4	0
	6	Josef Schimmer		4	0
	7	Kurt Dvorak		4	0
	8	Johann Koller		2	0
	9	Franz Strachota		4	1
	10	Josef Pecanka		4	0
	11	Robert Pecanka		4	1
	13	Hermann Knoll		2	0
Coach		Karl Ördögh
=5	–	Belgium	BEL	–	–
	1	Jean Van Leer		4	0
	2	Jean Dubois		4	0
	3	Jean Enderle		4	0
	4	Jacques Vanderstappen		3	0
	5	Roger Goossens		4	1
	6	Lucien Van Weydeveld		3	0
	7	Pierre Bousmanne		4	1
	8	Harold Mechelynck		4	1
	9	José Delaval		4	2
	10	Roger Morlet		3	0
	13	Jacky Moucq		2	0
	15	Paul Toussaint		4	1
	14	Léo Rooman		2	0
Coach		?
=5	–	Unified Team of Germany	GER	–	–
	2	Hans-Jürgen Dollheiser		5	0
	3	Günther Ullerich		5	0
	4	Günther Brennecke		4	0
	6	Lutz Peters		5	0
	8	Willi Suhren		3	0
	9	Hugo Budinger		5	9
	11	Werner Rosenbaum		5	0
	12	Alfred Lücker		2	0
	13	Heinz Schütz		2	0
	14	Heiner Thielemann		3	1
	15	Rolf Stoltenberg		1	1
	5	Friedrich Hidding		4	0
	7	Hugo Dollheiser		4	3
	10	Wilfried Grube		4	0
	1	Heinz Schmidt		3	0
Coach		Kutti Weiß
=5	–	France	FRA	–	–
	1	Jean Zizine		3	0
	3	André Meyer		3	0
	4	Bernard Boone		3	0
	5	Jean-François Dubessay		3	0
	6	Philippe Reynaud		3	0
	7	Robert Lucas		2	–
	8	Jean Hauet		3	0
	9	Roger Capelle		2	0
	10	Michel Lacroix		3	0
	12	Claude Hauet		3	0
	14	Florio Martel		1	–
	13	Diran Manoukian		1	0
	11	Jacques Thieffry		2	0
	15	Jean Desmasures		1	–
Coach		?
=9	–	Switzerland	SUI	–	–
	3	Fridolin Kurmann		3	0
	1	Fritz Stühlinger		3	0
	5	Gilbert Recordon		3	0
	10	Hans Gruner		1	–
	11	Hugo Vonlanthen		3	0
	14	Jean-Pierre Bolomey		3	0
	6	Jean-Pierre Roche		3	0
	8	Kurt Müller		3	0
	9	Roger Zanetti		3	0
	7	Ruedi Keller		3	0
	4	Kurt Goldschmid		3	0
	12	Karl Hofstetter		2	0
	–	Robert Bovey DNS		–	–
	–	Edmond Chevalley DNS		–	–
	–	Erich Funk DNS		–	–
Coach		?
=9	–	Finland	FIN	–	–
	1	Veijo-Lassi Holopainen		2	0
	2	Erkki Heikkilä		2	0
	3	Tauno Timoska		2	0
	5	Reino Lindroos		2	0
	6	Kaarlo Einiö		2	0
	7	Toivo Salminen		2	0
	8	Keijo Kuusela		2	0
	9	Esko Silvennoinen		2	0
	10	Esko Salminen		2	0
	13	Risto Lamppu		2	0
	15	Pentti Elo		2	0
	–	Anders Andersson DNS		–	–
	–	Esko Kiviaho DNS		–	–
	–	Helge Korhonen DNS		–	–
	–	Keijo Lehtonen DNS		–	–
	–	Pentti Paasonen DNS		–	–
Coach		Robert Günsberg
=9	–	Poland	POL	–	–
	2	Bronisław Pawlicki		1	0
	3	Jan Małkowiak		5	0
	4	Antoni Adamski		2	0
	5	Ryszard Marzec		5	1
	6	Narcyz Maciaszczyk		5	0
	7	Maksymilian Małkowiak		3	0
	8	Henryk Flinik		5	0
	9	Eugeniusz Czajka		5	0
	10	Jan Flinik		5	3
	11	Alfons Flinik		5	0
	12	Tadeusz Adamski		2	0
	13	Zdzisław Wojdylak		5	0
	14	Jerzy Siankiewicz		4	0
	15	Zdzisław Starzyński		3	0
Coach		Józef Wojtysiak
=9	–	Italy	ITA	–	–
	16	Amedeo Banci		2	0
	1	Egidio Cosentino		1	0
	2	Vittorio Stellin Castellani		1	0
	3	Luigi Lanfranchi		2	0
	4	Sergio Formenti		2	0
	5	Umberto Micco		1	0
	6	Piervittorio Pampuro		1	0
	7	Gastone Puccioni		1	0
	7	Primo Meozzi		1	0
	8	Sergio Morra		2	0
	9	Giorgio Ravalli		2	0
	11	Piero Baglia-Bambergi		2	0
	13	Luigi Piacentini		1	0
	14	Giampaolo Medda		1	0
	15	Mario Marchiori		2	0
Coach		Bruno Gennaro

Round One

Date	15 – 16 July 1952
Format	Single-elimination.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	15 Jul 18:00	Austria	AUT	2 – 1	Switzerland	SUI
Match #2	15 Jul 19:30	Belgium	BEL	6 – 0	Finland	FIN
Match #3	16 Jul 18:00	Unified Team of Germany	GER	7 – 2	Poland	POL
Match #4	16 Jul 19:30	France	FRA	5 – 0	Italy	ITA

Consolation Round: Quarter-Finals

Date	21 – 22 July 1952
Format	Single-elimination.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	21 Jul 18:00	Austria	AUT	2 – 0	Italy	ITA
Match #2	21 Jul 17:00	Belgium	BEL	4 – 3	Poland	POL	AET
Match #3	21 Jul 19:30	Unified Team of Germany	GER	7 – 0	Finland	FIN
Match #4	21 Jul 19:00	Switzerland	SUI	2 – 1	France	FRA
Replay #2	22 Jul 17:00	Poland	POL	1 – 0	Belgium	BEL

Consolation Round: Semi-Finals

Date	23 July 1952
Format	Single-elimination.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	23 Jul 19:00	Unified Team of Germany	GER	2 – 1	Austria	AUT
Match #2	23 Jul 19:00	Poland	POL	1 – 0	Switzerland	SUI

Consolation Round: Final

Date	25 July 1952 — 19:00
Format	Single-elimination.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	25 Jul 19:00	Unified Team of Germany	GER	4 – 0	Poland	POL

Quarter-Finals

Date	17 – 18 July 1952
Format	Single-elimination.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	17 Jul 18:00	India	IND	4 – 0	Austria	AUT
Match #2	17 Jul 19:30	Great Britain	GBR	1 – 0	Belgium	BEL
Match #3	18 Jul 18:00	Netherlands	NED	1 – 0	Unified Team of Germany	GER
Match #4	18 Jul 19:30	Pakistan	PAK	6 – 0	France	FRA

Semi-Finals

Date	20 July 1952
Format	Single-elimination.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	20 Jul 18:00	India	IND	3 – 1	Great Britain	GBR
Match #2	20 Jul 19:30	Netherlands	NED	1 – 0	Pakistan	PAK

Final Round

Date	22 – 24 July 1952
Format	Medal round.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match 1/2	24 Jul 17:00	India	IND	6 – 1	Netherlands	NED
Match 3/4	22 Jul 19:00	Great Britain	GBR	2 – 1	Pakistan	PAK