Field hockey at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Hockey at the 1980 Summer Olympics was represented by two events: men's team event and women's team event. For the first time a women's Olympic Games hockey tournament was organized. Both events were held in two venues, located in the north-western part of Moscow:

• the Minor Arena of the Central Dynamo Stadium
• the Young Pioneers Stadium

The schedule started on July 20 and ended on July 31. The 33 matches of hockey events at stadiums were watched by 177,880 spectators.

Medals

Pos	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total:
1	India (IND)	1	0	0	1
	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	1	0	0	1
3	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	1	0	1
	Spain Spain (ESP)	0	1	0	1
5	Soviet Union (URS)	0	0	2	2

Men's Tournament

In the Preliminary Pool teams played against each other in a round. Then teams, placed 1st and 2nd contested for gold and silver medals; placed 3rd and 4th contested for bronze medals and placed 5th and 6th contested for 5th place.

Preliminary round

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
23x15px Spain	5	4	1	0	33	3	9
India	5	3	2	0	39	6	8
Soviet Union	5	3	0	2	30	11	6
Poland	5	2	1	2	19	15	5
Cuba	5	1	0	4	7	42	2
Tanzania	5	0	0	5	3	54	0

20 July Poland 7 – 1 Cuba

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20 July India 18 – 0 Tanzania

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20 July Soviet Union 1 – 2 Spain

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21 July Cuba 2 – 11 Soviet Union

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21 July Tanzania 0 – 12 Spain

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21 July Poland 2 – 2 India

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23 July Tanzania 0 – 4 Cuba

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23 July India 2 – 2 Spain

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23 July Soviet Union 5 – 1 Poland

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24 July India 13 – 0 Cuba

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24 July Poland 0 – 6 Spain

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24 July Soviet Union 11 – 2 Tanzania

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26 July Tanzania 1 – 9 Poland

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26 July India 4 – 2 Soviet Union

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26 July Cuba 0 – 11 Spain

Classification

Fifth place qualifiers

26 July Cuba 4 – 1 Tanzania

Third place match

26 July Soviet Union 2 – 1 Poland

First place match

26 July India 4 – 3 Spain

Final Ranking

Rk	Team
	India
	23x15px Spain
	Soviet Union
4	Poland
5	Cuba
6	Tanzania

Men's Medal Winners

GOLD	India Allan Schofield (gk), Bir Bhadur Chettri(gk), Sylvanus Dung Dung, Rajinder Singh, Davinder Singh, Gurmail Singh, Ravinder Pal Singh, Vasudevan Baskaran (captain), M. M. Somaya, Maharaj Krishan Kaushik, Charanjit Kumar, Merwyn Fernandes, Amarjit Singh Rana, Mohamed Shahid, Zafar Iqbal, and Surinder Singh Sodhi.
SILVER	23x15px Spain Juan Amat, Juan Arbós, Jaime Arbós, Javier Cabot, Ricardo Cabot, Miguel Chaves, Juan Coghen, Miguel de Paz, Francisco Fábregas Bosch, José Garcia, Rafael Garralda, Santiago Malgosa, Paulino Monsalve, Juan Pellón, Joel Ramirez Carlos Roca and Jaime Zumalacárregui.
BRONZE	Soviet Union Vladimir Pleshakov, Viacheslav Lampeev, Leonid Pavlovski, Sos Hayrapetyan, Farit Zigangirov, Valeri Belyakov, Sergei Klevtsov, Oleg Zagorodnev, Aleksandr Gusev, Sergei Pleshakov, Mikhail Nichepurenko, Minneula Azizov, Aleksandr Sychyov, Aleksandr Miasnikov, Viktor Deputatov, and Aleksandr Goncharov.

Women's Tournament

Held for the first time in Olympic history. Women's teams played against each other in one round.

Preliminary Pool

Rk	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
	Zimbabwe	5	3	2	0	13	4	8
	Czechoslovakia	5	3	1	1	10	5	7
	Soviet Union	5	3	0	2	11	5	6
4	India	5	2	1	2	9	6	5
5	Austria	5	2	0	3	6	11	4
6	Poland	5	0	0	5	0	18	0

25 July Poland 0 – 4 Zimbabwe

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25 July Austria 0 – 2 India

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25 July Soviet Union 2 – 0 Czechoslovakia

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27 July India 4 – 0 Poland

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27 July Zimbabwe 2 – 2 Czechoslovakia

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27 July Soviet Union 0 – 2 Austria

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28 July India 1 – 2 Czechoslovakia

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28 July Austria 3 – 0 Poland

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28 July Soviet Union 0 – 2 Zimbabwe

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30 July Soviet Union 6 – 0 Poland

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30 July India 1 – 1 Zimbabwe

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30 July Austria 0 – 5 Czechoslovakia

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31 July Poland 0 – 1 Czechoslovakia

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31 July Austria 1 – 4 Zimbabwe

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31 July Soviet Union 3 – 1 India

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Note: country names are given in the form they were used in official documents of the IOC in 1980

Women's Medal Winners

GOLD	Zimbabwe Arlene Boxall, Sarah English, Maureen George, Ann Grant (captain), Susan Huggett, Patricia McKillop, Brenda Phillips, Christine Prinsloo, Sonia Robertson, Anthea Stewart, Helen Volk, Linda Watson, Liz Chase, Sandra Chick, Gillian Cowley and Patricia Davies.
SILVER	Czechoslovakia Milada Blažková, Jiřina Čermáková, Jiřina Hájková, Berta Hrubá, Ida Hubáčková, Jiřina Kadlecová, Jarmila Králíčková, Jiřina Křížová, Alena Kyselicová, Jana Lahodová, Květoslava Petříčková, Viera Podhányiová, Iveta Šranková, Marie Sýkorová, Marta Urbanová and Lenka Vymazalová.
BRONZE	Soviet Union Valentina Zazdravnykh, Tatyana Shvyganova, Galina Vyuzhanina, Tatyana Yembakhtova, Alina Kham, Natella Krasnikova, Nadezhda Ovechkina, Nelli Gorbyatkova, Yelena Guryeva, Galina Inzhuvatova, Nadezhda Filipova, Lyudmila Frolova, Lidiya Glubokova, Leyla Akhmerova, Natalya Buzunova, and Natalya Bykova.

References

• Official Olympic Report