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Field hockey at the 1960 Summer Olympics

The field hockey tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy was contested from August 26 to September 9, with sixteen participating teams. Only men competed in field hockey at these Games. Pakistan won the gold medal, defeating India in the final and ending India's run of six successive Olympic gold medals in field hockey. Spain won the bronze medal.[1]

Participating nations

Sixteen teams were placed into four preliminary groups of four teams each. After a preliminary round-robin set of matches, the top two teams in each group advanced to the quarter-finals.

Squads

Preliminary round

Match between the Netherlands and New Zealand

Group A

Source: FIH
Notes:
  1. ^ a b New Zealand and the Netherlands finished on equal points at the conclusion of the pool stage, resulting in a match to determine second place in the pool, which New Zealand won 2–1.

Second place play-off

New Zealand advanced to the quarter-finals. The Netherlands continued to the classification matches for 9th–12th place.

Group B

Source: FIH
Notes:
  1. ^ a b Australia and Poland finished on equal points at the conclusion of the pool stage, resulting in a match to determine second place in the pool, which Australia won 2–0.

Second place play-off

Australia advanced to the quarter-finals. Poland continued to the classification matches for 9th–12th place.

Group C

Source: FIH
(H) Hosts

Group D

Source: FIH

Knockout stage

Bracket

Quarter-final losers continued to play classification matches to determine 5th–8th place. The Great Britain versus Kenya match lasted 127 minutes and needed six overtime periods to determine the winner.[2]

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

Classification round

Fifth to eighth place classification

5–8th place semi-finals

The match was abandoned due to darkness with the score tied at 1-1 after 40 minutes of extra time. Australia was initially awarded the match after a coin toss, but after an appeal by Kenya, the match was declared drawn and a replay was ordered.

Replay

Fifth place game

After the Australia-Kenya match was declared a draw and a replay ordered on appeal, this match was declared null and void, and a replay was ordered between New Zealand and the winner of the Australia-Kenya replay.

Replay

Seventh place game

The seventh-place game between Germany and Kenya was scratched as the German team had flown home after the Closing Ceremony. Both teams were awarded joint seventh place.

Ninth to twelfth place classification

As Poland declined to participate in the classification matches, they were awarded twelfth place: the other three teams played a round-robin set of matches.

Source: FIH

An Italian traffic policeman on duty just outside the field blew his whistle. The Belgians thought it was the umpire's whistle and stopped playing, whereupon the French scored the only goal of the game.[2]

Thirteenth to sixteenth place classification

As Denmark declined to participate in the classification matches, they were awarded sixteenth place. The other three teams played a round-robin set of matches.

Source: FIH
(H) Hosts

Final standings

  1.  Pakistan
  2.  India
  3.  Spain
  4.  Great Britain
  5.  New Zealand
  6.  Australia
  7.  United Team of Germany
  9.  Kenya
  11.  Netherlands
  12.  France
  13.  Belgium
  14.  Poland
  15.  Italy
  16.  Japan
  17.   Switzerland
  18.  Denmark

Medalists

References

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  1. ^ "Hockey at the 1960 Rome Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  2. ^ a b Wallechinsky, David (1984). The Complete Book of the Olympics. England: Penguin Books. p. 274. ISBN 0140066322.

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