Field hockey at the 1952 Summer Olympics


The men's field hockey tournament at the 1952 Summer Olympics was the seventh edition of the field hockey event for men at the Summer Olympics.

Medal summary

Results

Bracket

Preliminary round

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Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

Consolation round

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 show these matches in any kind.

5th–12th place quarter-finals

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5th–8th place semi-finals

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Fifth and sixth place

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 a competitor by the .
A total of 144 field hockey players from 12 nations competed at the Helsinki Games:
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 show these matches in any kind. However, the teams are listed in order of the results of this consolation round.
PlaceNation
1
2
3
4
Manzoor Hussain Atif
Jack Britto
Abdul Hamid
Mahmoodul Hassan
Asghar Ali Khan
Muhammad Niaz Khan
Habib Ali Kiddie
Malik Aziz
Latif Mir
Habibur Rehman
Latif-ur-Rehman
Qazi Abdul Waheed
5
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
6
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
7
Kurt Dvorak
Karl Holzapfel
Walter Kaitna
Alfred Knoll
Johann Koller
Josef Matz
Josef Pecanka
Robert Pecanka
Ernst Schala
Josef Schimmer
Franz Strachota
Hermann Knoll
7
Jean-Pierre Bolomey
Kurt Goldschmid
Jean Grüner
Rudolf Keller
Fridolin Kurmann
Kurt Müller
Gilbert Recordon
Jean-Pierre Roche
Fritz Stuhlinger
Hugo Vonlanthen
Roger Zanetti
Karl Hofstetter
9
Pierre Bousmanne
José Delaval
Jean Dubois
Jean Enderle
Roger Goossens
Harold Mechelynck
Roger Morlet
Paul Toussaint
Jean Van Leer
Lucien van Weydeveld
Jacques Vanderstappen
Jacky Moucq
Léo Rooman
9
Veijo-Lassi Holopainen
Erkki Heikkilä
Tauno Timoska
Reino Lindroos
Kaarlo Einiö
Toivo Salminen
Keijo Kuusela
Esko Silvennoinen
Esko Salminen
Risto Lamppu
Pentti Elo
11
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
Jean Desmasures
11
Amedeo Banci
Egidio Cosentino
Vittorio Stellin Castellani
Luigi Lanfranchi
Sergio Formenti
Umberto Micco
Piervittorio Pampuro
Gastone Puccioni
Primo Meozzi
Sergio Morra
Giorgio Ravalli
Piero Baglia-Bamberghi
Luigi Piacentini
Giampaolo Medda
Mario Marchiori