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.<ref name="SR">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Squads

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Preliminary round

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Match between the Netherlands and New Zealand

Group A

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Second place play-off

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

Group B

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Second place play-off

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

Group C

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Group D

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Knockout stage

Bracket

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Classification round

Fifth to eighth place classification

5–8th place semi-finals

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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.

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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

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Thirteenth to sixteenth place classification

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Final standings

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Medalists

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External links

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