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Hockey, Men

Date29 July – 11 August 1984
StatusOlympic
LocationWeingart Stadium, East Los Angeles College, Monterey Park, California
Participants190 from 12 countries
FormatRound-robin pools advance teams to classification round matches.

After the 6-team tournament of 1980, the Los Angeles hockey tournament included all the favorites. The Soviet Union did forfeit participation, and they were replaced by Great Britain. Surprisingly, the substitutes won their pool, only drawing against World Champion Pakistan, and eventually took home the bronze medal.

Australia, winner of the 1983 Champions Trophy won all their matches in the other group. However, both pool winners were unable to make it through the semi-finals, both losing 1-0. The gold medal match was a replay of the 1972 final, between Pakistan and West Germany. As 12 years earlier, the Germans took the lead, but Pakistan quickly tied and held on until full time. The first Olympic hockey final to go into overtime was finally decided by Kalimullah of Pakistan.

Remarkably, the third hockey gold for Pakistan had strong ties with the two earlier ones in 1960 and 1968. Coach Manzoor Hussain Atif had already coached the national team in Mexico, and had himself played on the golden team of 1960. The Dar family was also represented in each of the three championship teams. Munir Dar played on the 1960 team, while his brother Tanvir won the gold eight years later. Munir’s son, Tauqir won the family’s third gold.

PosNumberTeamNOC
1PakistanPAKGold
1Syed Ghulam Moinuddin
2Qasim Zia
3Nasir Ali
4Abdul Rashid Al-Hasan
5Ayaz Mahmood
6Naeem Akhtar
7 Kalimullah
8Manzoor Hussain
9Hassan Sardar
10Hanif Khan
11Khalid Hamid
12Shahid Ali Khan
13Tauqir Dar
14Ishtiaq Ahmed
15Salim Sherwani
16Mushtaq Ahmed
CoachKhawaja Zaka-ud-Din
2West GermanyFRGSilver
1Christian Bassemir
2Tobias Frank
3Uli Hänel
4Carsten Fischer
5Karl-Joachim Hürter
6Ekkhard Schmidt-Opper
7Felix Krull
8Michael Peter
9Stefan Blöcher
10Andreas Keller
11Thomas Reck
12Markku Slawyk
13Thomas Gunst
14Heiner Dopp
15Volker Fried
16Dirk Brinkmann
CoachKlaus Kleiter
3Great BritainGBRBronze
1Ian Taylor
3Sam Martin
4Paul Barber
5Bob Cattrall
6Jon Potter
7Richard Dodds
8Billy McConnell
9Norman Hughes
10David Westcott
11Richard Leman
12Steve Batchelor
13Sean Kerly
14James Duthie
15Kulbir Bhaura
16Mark Precious
Veryan Pappin DNS
CoachDavid Whitaker
4AustraliaAUS
1Ric Charlesworth
2Jim Irvine
3Colin Batch
4David Bell
5Adrian Berce
6Grant Boyce
7Craig Davies
8Peter Haselhurst
9Treva King
10Terry Leece
11Grant Mitton
12Michael Nobbs
13Nigel Patmore
14Trevor Smith
15Neil Snowden
16Terry Walsh
CoachRichard Aggiss
5IndiaIND
1Romeo James
2Manohar Topno
3Vineet Kumar Sharma
4Maneyapanda Muthanna Somaya
5Joaquim Carvalho
6Rajinder Singh
7Charanjit Kumar
8Merwyn Fernandis
9Hardeep Singh
10Muhammad Shahid
11Zafar Iqbal
12Pangambam Nilakomol Singh
13Iqbaljit Singh Grewal
14Ravinder Pal Singh
15Marcellus Gomes
16Jalal-ud-Din Syed Rizvi
CoachGurdial Bhahgu Singh
6NetherlandsNED
1Pierre Hermans
2Arno den Hartog
3Cees Jan Diepeveen
4Eric Pierik
5Theo Doyer
6Tom van 't Hek
7Peter van Asbeck
8Ewout van Asbeck
9Hans Kruize
10Ties Kruize
11Ron Steens
12Hidde Kruize
13Lex Bos
14Roderik Bouwman
15René Klaassen
16Maarten van Grimbergen
CoachWim van Heumen
7New ZealandNZL
1Jeff Archibald
2Husmukh Bhikha
3Chris Brown
4George Carnoutsos
5Peter Daji
6Laurie Gallen
7Stuart Grimshaw
8Trevor Laurence
9Grant McLeod
10Brent Miskimmin
11Peter Miskimmin
12Arthur Parkin
13Ramesh Patel
14Graham Sligo
15Maurice Marquet
16Robin Wilson
CoachBrian Maunsell
8SpainESP
1Pep Agut
2Javier Cabot
3Juan Arbós
4Andrés Gómez
5Juan Carlos Peón
6Jaime Arbós
7Ricardo Cabot
8Juan Malgosa
9Carlos Roca
10Mariano Bordas
11Ignacio Cobos
12Jordi Oliva
13Miguel de Paz
14Ignacio Escudé
15Santiago Malgosa
16José Miguel García
CoachBert Bunnik
9KenyaKEN
1Emmanuel Oduol
2Julius Akumu
3Lucas Alubaha
4Michael Omondi
5Parminder Singh Saini
6Manjeet Singh Panesar
7Jitender Singh Panesar
8Peter Akatsa
9Harvinder Singh Kular
10Christopher Otambo
11Brajinder Singh Daved
12Raphael Fernandes
13Sunil Chhabra
14Sarabjit Singh Sehmi
15Eric Otieno
16Julius Mutinda
CoachAvtar Singh Sohal
10CanadaCAN
1Julian Austin
2Ken Goodwin
3Pat Caruso
4David Bissett
5Pat Burrows
6Rob Smith
7Niki Sandhu
8Ernie Cholakis
9Kip Hladky
10Bubli Chohan
11Aaron Fernandes
12Ross Rutledge
13Reg Plummer
14Harbhajan Rai
15Bruce Macpherson
16Trevor Porritt
CoachShiv Singh Jagday
11MalaysiaMAS
1Ahmed Fadzil
2Yahya Atan
3Foo Keat Seong
4Sukhvinderjeet Singh Kulwant
5Michael Chew
6Sarjit Singh Kyndan
7Stephen Van Huizen
8Jagjit Singh Chet
9Soon Mustafa bin Karim
10Kevin Nunis
11Ow Soon Kooi
12Tam Chiew Seng
13Shurentheran Murugesan
14Poon Fook Loke
15Colin Santa Maria
16Zulkifli Abbas
CoachChelliah Paramalingam
12United StatesUSA
1Mohammed Barakat
2Ken Barrett
3Rawle Cox
4Trevor Fernandes
5Scotty Gregg
6Manzar Iqbal
7Michael Kraus
8Randy Lipscher
9David McMichael
10Gary Newton
11Mike Newton
12Brian Spencer
14Bob Stiles
15Drew Stone
16Nigel Traverso
Morgan Stebbins DNS
CoachGavin Featherstone

Preliminary Round

Date29 July – 7 August 1984

Group A

Date29 July – 6 August 1984
FormatRound-robin pool.
PosTeamNOCWinsTiesLossesPointsGoals
1AustraliaAUS5001017-4Q
2West GermanyFRG311712-4Q
3IndiaIND311714-9
4SpainESP203411-12
5MalaysiaMAS10426-17
6United StatesUSA00504-18
MatchDate/TimeTeamNOCResultTeamNOC
Match #129 Jul 13:45AustraliaAUS5 – 0MalaysiaMAS
Match #229 Jul 15:30West GermanyFRG3 – 1SpainESP
Match #329 Jul 17:15IndiaIND5 – 1United StatesUSA
Match #431 Jul 8:30AustraliaAUS3 – 1SpainESP
Match #531 Jul 10:15West GermanyFRG4 – 0United StatesUSA
Match #631 Jul 16:15IndiaIND3 – 1MalaysiaMAS
Match #702 Aug 8:30IndiaIND4 – 3SpainESP
Match #802 Aug 10:15MalaysiaMAS4 – 1United StatesUSA
Match #902 Aug 16:15AustraliaAUS3 – 0West GermanyFRG
Match #1004 Aug 8:30West GermanyFRG5 – 0MalaysiaMAS
Match #1104 Aug 9:45AustraliaAUS4 – 2IndiaIND
Match #1204 Aug 14:30SpainESP3 – 1United StatesUSA
Match #1306 Aug 8:30AustraliaAUS2 – 1United StatesUSA
Match #1406 Aug 10:15SpainESP3 – 1MalaysiaMAS
Match #1506 Aug 13:45West GermanyFRG0 – 0IndiaIND

Group B

Date30 July – 7 August 1984
FormatRound-robin pool.
PosTeamNOCWinsTiesLossesPointsGoals
1Great BritainGBR410910-5Q
2PakistanPAK230716-7Q
3NetherlandsNED311716-9
4New ZealandNZL122410-10
5KenyaKEN10425-14
6CanadaCAN01417-19
MatchDate/TimeTeamNOCResultTeamNOC
Match #130 Jul 13:45NetherlandsNED4 – 1CanadaCAN
Match #230 Jul 15:00New ZealandNZL3 – 3PakistanPAK
Match #330 Jul 17:15Great BritainGBR2 – 1KenyaKEN
Match #401 Aug 8:00NetherlandsNED3 – 1New ZealandNZL
Match #501 Aug 13:45PakistanPAK3 – 0KenyaKEN
Match #601 Aug 15:30Great BritainGBR3 – 1CanadaCAN
Match #703 Aug 9:45KenyaKEN3 – 2CanadaCAN
Match #803 Aug 13:45Great BritainGBR1 – 0New ZealandNZL
Match #903 Aug 15:30NetherlandsNED3 – 3PakistanPAK
Match #1005 Aug 8:00New ZealandNZL4 – 1KenyaKEN
Match #1105 Aug 13:45Great BritainGBR4 – 3NetherlandsNED
Match #1205 Aug 15:30PakistanPAK7 – 1CanadaCAN
Match #1307 Aug 8:00Great BritainGBR0 – 0PakistanPAK
Match #1407 Aug 15:30CanadaCAN2 – 2New ZealandNZL
Match #1507 Aug 17:15NetherlandsNED3 – 0KenyaKEN

Classification Round 5-8

Date9 August 1984
FormatClassification matches.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #109 Aug 8:00IndiaIND1 – 0New ZealandNZL
Match #209 Aug 9:45NetherlandsNED0 – 0SpainESPAET, 10-4 PS

Classification Round 9-12

Date8 August 1984
FormatClassification matches.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #108 Aug 19:00CanadaCAN1 – 0MalaysiaMAS
Match #208 Aug 21:00KenyaKEN1 – 1United StatesUSAAET, 4-2 PS

Semi-Finals

Date9 August 1984
FormatSingle-elimination.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #109 Aug 15:00PakistanPAK1 – 0AustraliaAUS
Match #209 Aug 16:45West GermanyFRG1 – 0Great BritainGBR

Final Round

Date10 – 11 August 1984
FormatMedal round.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match 1/211 Aug 13:15PakistanPAK2 – 1West GermanyFRGAET
Match 3/411 Aug 11:15Great BritainGBR3 – 2AustraliaAUS
Match 5/611 Aug 9:15IndiaIND5 – 2NetherlandsNED
Match 7/810 Aug 15:00New ZealandNZL1 – 0SpainESP
Match 9/1010 Aug 13:15KenyaKEN1 – 0CanadaCANAET
Match 11/1210 Aug 8:00MalaysiaMAS3 – 3United StatesUSAAET, 9-8 PS