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 (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
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
	Spain
	Soviet Union
4	Poland
5	Cuba
6	Tanzania

Men's Medal Winners

Gold	Silver	Bronze
India (IND) Vasudevan Baskaran Bir Bhadur Chettri Sylvanus Dung Dung Merwyn Fernandes Zafar Iqbal Maharaj Krishan Kaushik Charanjit Kumar Sommayya Maneypande Allan Schofield Mohamed Shahid Davinder Singh Gurmail Singh Amarjit Singh Rana Rajinder Singh Ravinder Pal Singh Surinder Singh Sodhi	Spain (ESP) Juan Amat Juan Arbós Jaime Arbós Javier Cabot Ricardo Cabot Miguel Chaves Juan Coghen Miguel de Paz Francisco Fábregas José Garcia Rafael Garralda Santiago Malgosa Paulino Monsalve Juan Pellón Carlos Roca Jaime Zumalacárregui	Soviet Union (URS) Sos Hayrapetyan Minneula Azizov Valeri Belyakov Viktor Deputatov Aleksandr Goncharov Aleksandr Gusev Sergei Klevtsov Viacheslav Lampeev Aleksandr Miasnikov Mikhail Nichepurenko Leonid Pavlovski Sergei Pleshakov Vladimir Pleshakov Aleksandr Sychyov Oleg Zagorodnev Farit Zigangirov

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	Silver	Bronze
Zimbabwe (ZIM) Liz Chase Sandra Chick Gillian Cowley Patricia Davies Sarah English Maureen George Ann Grant Susan Huggett Patricia McKillop Brenda Phillips Christine Prinsloo Sonia Robertson Anthea Stewart Helen Volk Linda Watson	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Milada Blažková Jiřina Čermáková Jiřina Hájková Berta Hrubá Ida Hubáčková Jiřina Kadlecová Jarmila Králíčková Jiřina Křížová Alena Kyselicová Jana Lahodová Květa Petříčková Viera Podhányiová Iveta Šranková Marie Sýkorová Marta Urbanová Lenka Vymazalová	Soviet Union (URS) Liailia Akhmerova Natalia Buzunova Natalia Bykova Tatiana Embakhtova Nadezhda Filippova Liudmila Frolova Lidia Glubokova Nelli Gorbatkova Elena Guryeva Galina Inzhuvatova Alina Kham Natella Krasnikova Nadezhda Ovechkina Tatiana Shvyganova Galina Viuzhanina Valentina Zazdravnykh

References

• Official Olympic Report