Field hockey at the 1984 Summer Olympics

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Field hockey at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Venue	Weingart Stadium
Dates	29 July – 11 August 1984
No. of events	2
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Field hockey at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles took place from 29 July to 11 August 1984 at the Weingart Stadium, in Monterey Park.^[1][2]

Men's tournament

Main article: Field hockey at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Australia	5	5	0	0	17	4	+13	10	Semi-finals
2	West Germany	5	3	1	1	12	4	+8	7
3	India	5	3	1	1	14	9	+5	7	5–8th place semi-finals
4	Spain	5	2	0	3	11	12	−1	4
5	Malaysia	5	1	0	4	6	17	−11	2	9–12th place semi-finals
6	United States (H)	5	0	0	5	4	18	−14	0

Source: FIH
(H) Hosts

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Great Britain	5	4	1	0	10	5	+5	9	Semi-finals
2	Pakistan	5	2	3	0	16	7	+9	7
3	Netherlands	5	3	1	1	16	9	+7	7	5–8th place semi-finals
4	New Zealand	5	1	2	2	10	10	0	4
5	Kenya	5	1	0	4	5	14	−9	2	9–12th place semi-finals
6	Canada	5	0	1	4	7	19	−12	1

Source: FIH

Medal round

	Semi-finals				Gold-medal match
	9 August
	West Germany	1
					11 August
	Great Britain	0
					West Germany	1
	9 August
					Pakistan	2
	Australia	0
	Pakistan	1
					Bronze-medal match
					11 August
					Great Britain	3
					Australia	2

Final standings

1.  Pakistan
2.  West Germany
3.  Great Britain
4.  Australia
5.  India
6.  Netherlands
7.  New Zealand
8.  Spain
9.  Kenya
10.  Canada
11.  Malaysia
12.  United States

Women's tournament

Main article: Field hockey at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

The United States and Australia played out a penalty shoot-out for the bronze medal after finishing equal on points and goal difference in the round robin stage, which the United States won 10–5.^[3]

Pool

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
	Netherlands	5	4	1	0	14	6	+8	9
	West Germany	5	2	2	1	9	9	0	6
	United States (H)	5	2	1	2	9	7	+2	5
4	Australia	5	2	1	2	9	7	+2	5
5	Canada	5	2	1	2	9	11	−2	5
6	New Zealand	5	0	0	5	2	12	−10	0

Source: FIH
(H) Hosts

Final standings

1.  Netherlands
2.  West Germany
3.  United States
4.  Australia
5.  Canada
6.  New Zealand

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (United States)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Netherlands	1	0	0	1
	Pakistan	1	0	0	1
3	West Germany	0	2	0	2
4	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
	United States*	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		2	2	2	6

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's tournament details	Pakistan (PAK) Syed Ghulam Moinuddin Qasim Zia Nasir Ali Abdul Rashid Al-Hasan Ayaz Mahmood Naeem Akhtar Kalimullah Khan Manzoor Hussain Hassan Sardar Hanif Khan Khalid Hamid Shahid Ali Khan Tauqeer Dar Ishtiaq Ahmed Saleem Sherwani Mushtaq Ahmad	West Germany (FRG) Christian Bassemir Stefan Blöcher Dirk Brinkmann Heiner Dopp Carsten Fischer Tobias Frank Volker Fried Thomas Gunst Horst-Ulrich Hänel Karl-Joachim Hürter Andreas Keller Reinhard Krull Michael Peter Thomas Reck Ekkhard Schmidt-Opper Markku Slawyk	Great Britain (GBR) Paul Barber Stephen Batchelor Kulbir Bhaura Robert Cattrall Richard Dodds James Duthie Norman Hughes Sean Kerly Richard Leman Stephen Martin Billy McConnell Veryan Pappin Jon Potter Mark Precious Ian Taylor David Westcott
Women's tournament details	Netherlands (NED) Carina Benninga Fieke Boekhorst Marjolein Eijsvogel Det de Beus Irene Hendriks Elsemiek Hillen Sandra Le Poole Anneloes Nieuwenhuizen Martine Ohr Alette Pos Lisette Sevens Marieke van Doorn Aletta van Manen Sophie von Weiler Laurien Willemse Margriet Zegers	West Germany (FRG) Gabriele Appel Dagmar Breiken Beate Deininger Elke Drüll Birgit Hagen Birgit Hahn Martina Koch Sigrid Landgraf Corinna Lingnau Christina Moser Patricia Ott Hella Roth Gabriela Schley Susanne Schmid Ursula Thielemann Andrea Weiermann-Lietz	United States (USA) Beth Anders Beth Beglin Regina Buggy Gwen Cheeseman Sheryl Johnson Christine Larson-Mason Kathleen McGahey Anita Miller Leslie Milne Charlene Morett Diane Moyer Marcella Place Karen Shelton Brenda Stauffer Julie Staver Judy Strong

• Penalty stroke competition for the bronze medal: United States defeated Australia 10–5.
• Both teams had a 2–2–1 record and 9 goals for and 7 goals against. Canada also had a 2–2–1 record but had 9 goals for and 11 goals against.
• West Germany finished just ahead of the tied teams with a 2–1–2 record to claim silver.

See also

• Field hockey at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads
• Field hockey at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Women's team squads
• Field hockey at the Friendship Games

Notes

1. ^ "Weingart Stadium at LA Sports Council". Archived from the original on 22 June 2006. Retrieved 16 June 2010.
2. ^ "Hockey at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
3. ^ "Olympic Games Los Angeles 1984". FIH. Retrieved 25 July 2017.

References

• 1984 Olympic Official Report
• Pakistan Hockey – Olympic Games

External links

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