Field hockey at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Template:Infobox Olympic event The field hockey tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics was the 12th edition of the field hockey event at the Summer Olympics.<ref name="SR">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The West German victory was the first title by a European nation since 1920, but this was marred by the behavior of Pakistani players, fans, and officials: during the last ten minutes of the gold-medal match, the umpires had to stop play twice so that Pakistani fans who had invaded the pitch could be removed, while Pakistani players and officials repeatedly remonstrated with the umpires throughout that time.

At the final whistle, Pakistani fans and officials invaded the pitch and assaulted West German police and stadium security before storming the tournament officials' table and pouring a bucket of water over International Hockey Federation president Rene Frank, while the players stormed their locker room before proceeding to destroy it.

At the medal ceremony, the Pakistani players refused to wear their silver medals or face the West German flag as it was raised, and turned their backs as the West German national anthem was played.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The eleven Pakistani players were banned for life from their national team, but after a high-level apology, the ban was reduced to two years, and eight of them played at the 1976 Olympics.

Medalists

Template:FlagIOCteam Wolfgang Baumgart Horst Drose Dieter Freise Werner Kaessmann Carsten Keller Detlev Kittstein Ulrich Klaes Peter Kraus Michael Krause Michael Peter Wolfgang Rott Fritz Schmidt Rainer Seifert Wolfgang Strodter Eckart Suhl Eduard Thelen Peter Trump Ulrich Vos

Template:FlagIOCteam Rashid Abdul Akhtar Rasool Ul Akhtar Jahangir Butt Fazalur Rehman Islahuddin Siddiquee Muhammad Asad Malik Shahnaz Sheikh Munawwaruz Zaman Ahmad Riaz Saeed Anwar Saleem Sherwani Iftikar Syed Mudassar Syed Zahid Sheikh

Template:FlagIOCteam B. P. Govinda Charles Cornelius Manuel Frederick Michael Kindo V.J. Philips Ashok Kumar M. P. Ganesh Krishnamurty Perumal Ajitpal Singh Harbinder Singh Harcharan Singh Harmik Singh Kulwant Singh Mukhbain Singh Virinder Singh Vece Paes

Umpires

On 25 October 1971, 13 umpires were appointed by the FIH. It was reported that 12 more umpires would be selected in February 1972.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

• Charan Singh (KEN)
• Peter Lake (GBR)
• A. F. Lathouwers (NED)
• Sarosh Nagarwala (IND)
• Naqi (PAK)
• Andre Schittecalte (BEL)
• Fritz Seegers (FRG)
• Horacio Servetto (ARG)
• Vijayanathan (MAS)
• J. Richard Jewell (AUT)
• Luigi Tinti (ITA)
• Aziz Iskanbar (EGY)
• John Martens (SIN)

Squads

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Results

Preliminary round

Pool A

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Pool B

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Final rankings

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External links

• Official Olympic report