Field hockey at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Template:Infobox Olympic event The field hockey competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics, which was held in the Percival Molson Memorial Stadium at the McGill University, on an artificial surface for the first time. Only a men's competition occurred.<ref name="SR">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

New Zealand won the gold medal for the first time by defeating Australia 1–0 in the final. Pakistan won the bronze medal by defeating the Netherlands 3–2.

Squads

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Preliminary round

Group A

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Group B

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Classification round

Ninth to eleventh place classification

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Statistics

Final standings

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Medallists

Template:FlagIOCteam Paul Ackerley Jeff Archibald Arthur Borren Alan Chesney John Christensen Greg Dayman Tony Ineson Barry Maister Selwyn Maister Trevor Manning Alan McIntyre Neil McLeod Arthur Parkin Mohan Patel Ramesh Patel Les Wilson

Template:FlagIOCteam David Bell Greg Browning Ric Charlesworth Ian Cooke Barry Dancer Douglas Golder Robert Haigh Wayne Hammond Jim Irvine Malcolm Poole Robert Proctor Graeme Reid Ronald Riley Trevor Smith Terry Walsh

Template:FlagIOCteam Rashid Abdul Akhtar Rasool Mahmood Arshad Arshad Chaudhry Khan Haneef Islahuddin Siddique Samiullah Khan Manzoor Hussain Munawwaruz Zaman Zia Qamar Nazim Salim Shahnaz Sheikh Saleem Sherwani Iftikar Syed Mudassar Syed Manzoor-ul Hassan

External links

• Official Report