Field hockey at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Final results for the Hockey competition at the 1952 Summer Olympics:
Only a men's competition occurred that year.
Medal summary
Results
Bracket
| First round | Second round | Semi-finals | Final | |||||||||||
 India |
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| bye | ||||||||||||||
| India |
4 | |||||||||||||
 Austria |
0 | |||||||||||||
| Austria |
2 | |||||||||||||
 Switzerland |
1 | |||||||||||||
| India |
3 | |||||||||||||
 Great Britain |
1 | |||||||||||||
| Great Britain |
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| bye | ||||||||||||||
| Great Britain |
1 | |||||||||||||
.svg.png){kind=small} Belgium |
0 | |||||||||||||
| Belgium |
6 | |||||||||||||
 Finland |
0 | |||||||||||||
| India |
6 | |||||||||||||
 Netherlands |
1 | |||||||||||||
| Netherlands |
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| bye | ||||||||||||||
| Netherlands |
1 | |||||||||||||
 Germany |
0 | |||||||||||||
| Germany |
7 | |||||||||||||
 Poland |
2 | |||||||||||||
| Netherlands |
1 | |||||||||||||
 Pakistan |
0 | Third Place | ||||||||||||
| Pakistan |
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| bye | ||||||||||||||
| Pakistan |
6 | Great Britain |
2 | |||||||||||
 France |
0 | Pakistan |
1 | |||||||||||
| France |
5 | |||||||||||||
 Italy |
0 | |||||||||||||
Participating nations
Each country was allowed to enter a team of 18 players and they all were eligible for participation. A total number of 191 players were entered, however only the 144 participants and six more players are known up to now. The official report for this Games also shows 144 competitors, but in the "Index of competitors" there are 147 players listed. The Austrian Hermann Knoll, the Belgian Jean-Jacques Moucq and the Polish Tadeusz Adamski did, according to the report itself, not compete in the main tournament. The Austrian player is not even shown as competitor by the Austrian Olympic Committee database.
A total of 144(*) field hockey players from 12 nations competed at the Helsinki Games:
- Austria (11)
- Belgium (11)
- Finland (11)
- France (13)
- Germany (15)
- Great Britain (13)
- India (14)
- Italy (11)
- Netherlands (11)
- Pakistan (12)
- Poland (11)
- Switzerland (11)
(*) NOTE: There are only players counted, which participated in the main tournament in one game at least.
Summary
There was also a consolation tournament played by the teams which were eliminated before the semi-finals. It is unknown, if this part of the tournament was official and part of the Olympic Games, because the official report did not shown these matches in any kind. However the teams are listed in order of the results of this consolation round.
| Place | Nation |
|---|---|
| 1 | India (IND) |
| 2 | Netherlands (NED) |
| 3 | Great Britain (GBR) |
| 4 | Pakistan (PAK) Manzoor Hussain Atif Jack Britto Abdul Hamid Mahmoodul Hassan Asghar Ali Khan Muhammad Niaz Khan Habib Ali Kiddie Malik Aziz Abdul Latif Mir Habibur Rehman Latif-ur-Rehman Abdul Waheed |
| - | Germany (GER) Günther Brennecke Hugo Budinger Hugo Dollheiser Hans-Jürgen Dollheiser Wilfried Grube Friedrich Hidding Alfred Lücker Carl-Ludwig Peters Werner Rosenbaum Heinz Schmitz Heinz Schütz Rolf Stoltenberg Wilhelm Suhren Heino Thielemann Günther Ullerich |
| - | Poland (POL) Antoni Adamski Eugeniusz Czajka Alfons Flinik Henryk Flinik Jan Flinik Narcyz Maciaszczyk Jan Małkowiak Maksymilian Małkowiak Ryszard Marzec Bronisław Pawlicki Zdzisław Wojdylak Tadeusz Adamski Jerzy Siankiewicz Zdzisław Starzyński |
| - | Austria (AUT) Kurt Dvorak Karl Holzapfel Walter Kaitna Alfred Knoll Johann Koller Josef Matz Josef Pecanka Robert Pecanka Ernst Schala Josef Schimmer Franz Strachota Hermann Knoll |
| - | Switzerland (SUI) Jean-Pierre Bolomey Kurt Goldschmid Jean Grüner Rudolf Keller Fridolin Kurmann Kurt Müller Gilbert Recordon Jean-Pierre Roche Fritz Stuhlinger Hugo Vonlanthen Roger Zanetti |
| - | France (FRA) Bernard Boone Roger Capelle Jean-François Dubessay Claude Hauet Jean Hauet Michel Lacroix Robert Lucas Diran Manoukian Florio Martel André Meyer Philippe Reynaud Jacques Thieffry Jean Zizine |
| - | Belgium (BEL) Pierre Bousmanne José Delaval Jean Dubois Jean Enderle Roger Goossens Harold Mechelynck Roger Morlet Paul Toussaint Jean-Marcel van Leer Lucien van Weydeveld Jacques Vanderstappen Jean-Jacques Moucq Léo Rooman |
| - | Italy (ITA) Piero Baglia-Bambergi Amedeo Banci Egidio Cosentino Sergio Formenti Luigi Lanfranchi Mario Marchiori Umberto Micco Sergio Morra Piero Pampuro Gastone Puccioni Giorgio Ravalli |
| - | Finland (FIN) Kaarlo Ilmari Einiö Pantti Olavi Elo Erkki Ilmari Heikkilä Veijo-Lassi Aukusti Keijo Helmar Kuusela Risto Santeri Lamppu Reino Oskari Lindroos Esko Jalo Toivo Salminen Toivo Heino Salminen Esko Kalevi Silvennoinen Tauno Johannes Timoska |
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