Field hockey at the 1956 Summer Olympics

The field hockey tournament at the 1956 Summer Olympics was contested from November 23 to December 6, with twelve participating teams. Only men competed in field hockey at these Games. India won the gold medal for the sixth successive Games, not allowing a single goal against in the entire tournament. Pakistan won the silver medal, and Germany won the bronze.

Participating nations

Twelve teams were seeded and placed into one of three preliminary groups of four teams each. With the unbalanced seeding, the top two teams in Group C advanced to the semi-finals, but only the top team in both Groups A and B advanced.;Group A
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flagicon|UK Singapore
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fh|Great Britain
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fh|Australia
#fh|Malaya
#fh|Kenya|colonial;Group C
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fh|Pakistan
#fh|Germany|EUA
#fh|Belgium
#fh|New Zealand

Preliminary round

Group A

hockeybox
date = November 26, 11:30
team1 = Singapore flagicon|UK
score = 6–1 (3–1)
team2 = fh|United States|1912hockeybox
date = November 26, 14:30
team1 = fh-rt|India
score = 14–0 (3–0)
team2 = fh|Afghanistan|1931hockeybox
date = November 28, 11:30
team1 = Singapore flagicon|UK
score = 5–0 (4–0)
team2 = fh|Afghanistan|1931hockeybox
date = November 28, 14:30
team1 = fh-rt|India
score = 16–0 (6–0)
team2 = fh|United States|1912hockeybox
date = November 30, 11:30
team1 = fh-rt|India
score = 6–0 (3–0)
team2 = flagicon|UK Singaporehockeybox
date = November 30, 14:30
team1 = fh-rt|Afghanistan|1931
score = 5–1 (2–1)
team2 = fh|United States|1912

;Group standings
*Pakistan and Germany advanced to the semi-finals.

Playoffs

Round4-with third
December 3|fh|India|1|fh|Germany|EUA|0
December 3|fh|Pakistan|3|fh|Great Britain|2
December 6|fh|India|1|fh|Pakistan|0
December 6|fh|Germany|EUA|3|fh|Great Britain |1

;Semi-finalshockeybox
date = December 3, 14:30
team1 = fh-rt|India
score = 1–0 (0–0)
team2 = fh|Germany|EUAhockeybox
date = December 3, 16:00
team1 = fh-rt|Pakistan
score = 3–2 (3–1)
team2 = fh|Great Britain

;Bronze medal matchhockeybox
date = December 6, 14:30
team1 = fh-rt|Germany|EUA
score = 3–1 (2–1)
team2 = fh|Great Britain

;Gold medal matchhockeybox
date = December 6, 16:00
team1 = fh-rt|India
score = 1–0 (0–0)
team2 = fh|Pakistan

Medalists

*Gunter Brennecke
*Hugo Budinger
*Werner Delmes
*Hugo Dollheiser
*Eberhard Ferstl
*Alfred Lücker
*Helmut Nonn
*Wolfgang Nonn
*Heinz Radzikowski
*Werner Rosenbaum
*Gunther Ullerich

References

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