1968 Summer Olympics / Hockey

Olympic hockey tournament 1968
Men's
Number of nations	16
Olympic champion	Pakistan
venue	Mexico city
Stadion	Estadio Municipal
opening	October 13, 1968
Endgame	October 26, 1968
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At the XIX. At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City , a hockey competition (men) took place.

Tournament mode

The 16 participants played in 2 groups A and B. The first and second of the groups qualified for the semi-finals. The third and fourth also played crosswise and then for positions 4 to 8. Places 9 to 16 were determined without cross-over games in a direct comparison between the 5th to 8th of the groups. In the playoffs, extra time was played until a decision was made. According to the IOC report, the game Netherlands - Spain lasted 144 minutes.

From October 15-22, 1967, a pre-Olympic hockey tournament was held at Lord's Cricket Ground in London, in which twelve of the 16 teams took part. As was customary at the time, 30 friendly matches were played. Each team had five games, an overall rating or table was not created.

Two German teams

The Olympic flag of both German teams in 1968

Only this once did two German teams take part in an Olympic hockey tournament. Both teams played in Group A and played the only official international match between them on October 17, 1968, under the same banner: black-red-gold with the Olympic rings. West Germany just won 3-2 and qualified for the semi-finals. There they were defeated by Pakistan with 0: 1 nV and in the game for bronze India with 1: 2. The GDR team won the game for 11th place against Great Britain 2: 1 n.V.

The 11th place (out of 16) had fatal consequences for hockey in the GDR: From then on , the government refused to give the German Hockey Sports Association almost any funding and cut off the eastern hockey players from world events for many years.

Group A

India and the Federal Republic of Germany qualified for the semi-finals. Spain and Belgium were tied at the end of the group games, but the direct comparison brought Spain 4th place in the table.
October 13th	10:30	New Zealand - India	2: 1 (2: 0)
October 13th	10:30	Federal Republic of Germany - Belgium	2: 0 (0: 0)
October 13th	12:00	Japan - Mexico	2: 1 (2: 0)
October 13th	12:00	GDR - Spain	1: 1 (0: 1)
October 14th	10:30	Belgium - GDR	4: 0 (1: 0)
October 14th	10:30	Spain - Japan	0: 0 (0: 0)
October 14th	12:00	New Zealand - Mexico	2: 0 (0: 0)
October 14th	12:00	India - Federal Republic of Germany	2: 1 (1: 1)
15th October	11:00	Spain - Belgium	2: 0 (2: 0)
15th October	11:00	India - Mexico	8: 0 (2: 0)
15th October	12:30	GDR - New Zealand	1: 1 (0: 0)
15th October	12:30	Federal Republic of Germany - Japan	2: 0 (0: 0)
October 17th	10:30	Federal Republic of Germany - GDR	3: 2 (1: 1)
October 17th	10:30	Belgium - Mexico	4: 0 (1: 0)
October 17th	12:00	New Zealand - Japan	1: 0 (0: 0)
October 17th	12:00	India - Spain	1: 0 (1: 0)
October 18	11:00	India - Belgium	2: 1 (0: 1)
October 18	11:00	Federal Republic of Germany - New Zealand	0: 0 (0: 0)
October 18	12:30	Spain - Mexico	3: 0 (2: 0)
October 18	12:30	GDR - Japan	1: 0 (0: 0)
the 20th of October	10:30	GDR - Mexico	2: 0 (0: 0)
the 20th of October	12:00	India - Japan	5: 0 (5: 0)
the 20th of October	12:00	New Zealand - Belgium	1: 1 (0: 0)
the 20th of October	16:00	Federal Republic of Germany - Spain	2: 0 (0: 0)
October 21	10:30	Federal Republic of Germany - Mexico	5: 1 (3: 1)
October 21	10:30	Belgium - Japan	4: 2 (1: 1)
October 21	12:00	GDR - India	0: 1 (0: 0)
October 21	16:00	New Zealand - Spain	1: 1 (0: 1)

Table group A
space	team	Games	Gates	Points
1.	India	7th	20: 4	12
2.	BR Germany	7th	15: 5	11
3.	New Zealand	7th	8: 4	10
4th	Spain	7th	7: 5	7th
5.	Belgium	7th	14: 9	7th
6th	GDR	7th	7:10	6th
7th	Japan	7th	4:14	3
8th.	Mexico	7th	2:26	0

Group B

Pakistan won all group matches and was first in Group B. Australia and Kenya played a playoff for second place in the table and the associated entry into the semi-finals. In the less important cases, such as between France and Great Britain, a direct comparison decided the placement. Since Argentina and Malaysia had drawn, the number of wins decided here.
October 13th	10:30	Australia - Kenya	2: 0 (2: 0)
October 13th	12:00	France - Malaysia	0: 0 (0: 0)
October 13th	16:00	Pakistan - Netherlands	6: 0 (3: 0)
October 13th	16:00	Great Britain - Argentina	2: 0 (1: 0)
October 14th	10:30	Pakistan - France	1: 0 (0: 0)
October 14th	12:00	Kenya - Malaysia	1: 1 (0: 1)
October 14th	12:00	Netherlands - Argentina	7: 0 (1: 0)
October 14th	16:00	Australia - Great Britain	0: 0 (0: 0)
October, 16th	11:00	Netherlands - Great Britain	2: 1 (0: 1)
October, 16th	11:00	Kenya - France	2: 0 (0: 0)
October, 16th	12:30	Malaysia - Argentina	1: 1 (1: 1)
October, 16th	12:30	Pakistan - Australia	3: 2 (1: 2)
October 17th	10:30	France - Great Britain	1: 0 (0: 0)
October 17th	12:00	Pakistan - Argentina	5: 0 (4: 0)
October 17th	16:00	Australia - Malaysia	3: 0 (2: 0)
October 17th	16:00	Kenya - Netherlands	2: 0 (1: 0)
October 19th	11:00	Pakistan - Great Britain	2: 1 (1: 0)
October 19th	11:00	Kenya - Argentina	2: 1 (2: 1)
October 19th	12:30	France - Australia	1: 0 (0: 0)
October 19th	12:30	Netherlands - Malaysia	1: 0 (1: 0)
the 20th of October	10:30	Netherlands - France	1: 0 (0: 0)
the 20th of October	10:30	Kenya - Great Britain	3: 0 (2: 0)
the 20th of October	12:00	Australia - Argentina	3: 1 (1: 1)
the 20th of October	16:00	Pakistan - Malaysia	4: 0 (1: 0)
October 21	10:30	Argentina - France	1: 0 (1: 0)
October 21	12:00	Pakistan - Kenya	2: 1 (2: 0)
October 21	12:00	Australia - Netherlands	2: 0 (0: 0)
October 21	16:00	Great Britain - Malaysia	2: 0 (1: 0)
Decision game for 2nd place in the table:
October 22nd		Australia - Kenya	3: 2 (1: 1)	for 2nd place B

Table group B
space	team	Games	Gates	Points
1.	Pakistan	7th	23: 4	14th
2.	Australia	7th	12: 5	9
	Kenya	7th	11: 6	9
4th	Netherlands	7th	11:11	8th
5.	France	7th	2: 5	5
6th	Great Britain	7th	6: 8	5
7th	Argentina	7th	4:20	3
8th.	Malaysia	7th	2:12	3

Semi-finals, 5th - 8th place

23rd October	11:00	Netherlands - New Zealand	3: 1 (0: 0)	5th - 8th place
23rd October	12:30	Spain - Kenya	2: 1 (2: 1)	5th - 8th place
October 24th	11:00	Australia - India	2: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 0: 1)	Semifinals
October 24th	12:45	Federal Republic of Germany - Pakistan	0: 1 n.V. (0: 0, 0: 0)	Semifinals

final

23rd October	12:30	Malaysia - Mexico	1: 0 (0: 0)	for 15th place
23rd October	12:30	Japan - Argentina	2: 0 (1: 0)	for 13th place
23rd October	11:00	GDR - Great Britain	2: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 1: 0)	for 11th place
23rd October	11:00	Belgium - France	3: 0 (2: 0)	for 9th place
October 25	11:00	New Zealand - Kenya	2: 0 (1: 0)	for 7th place
October 25	12:45	Netherlands - Spain	1: 0 a.d. (0: 0, 0: 0)	for 5th place
October 26th	11:00	India - Federal Republic of Germany	2: 1 (0: 1)	for 3rd place
October 26th	12:45	Pakistan - Australia	2: 1 (1: 0)	Endgame

Ranking list
space	team
1.	Pakistan
2.	Australia
3.	India
4th	BR Germany
5.	Netherlands
6th	Spain
7th	New Zealand
8th.	Kenya
9.	Belgium
10.	France
11.	GDR
12.	Great Britain
13.	Japan
14th	Argentina
15th	Malaysia
16.	Mexico

Medalist

			4th
Pakistan	Australia	India	BR Germany
Laeeq Ahmed Riaz Ahmed Gulrez Akhtar Saeed Anwar Muhammad Asad Malik Mohammad Ashfaq Tariq Aziz Jehangir Ahmed Butt Farooq Ahmad Khan Tanvir Ahmed Dar Khalid Mahmood Hussain Zakir Hussain Tariq Niazi Abdul Rashid Fazal Rehman Qazi Salahuddin Anwar All Shah Riaz Ud Din	Arthur Busch Paul Dearing Baymond Evans Brian Glencross Robert Haigh Donald Martin James Mason Donald McWatters Patrick Nilan Eric Pearce Gordon Pearce Julian Pearce Desmond Piper Fredrick Quine Ronald Riley Donald Smart	Rajendra Absolem Christy Perumal Krishnamurthy John Peter Inamur Rehman Munir Sait Ajitpal Singh Prithipal Singh Gurbux Singh Dharam Singh Balbir Singh I Balbir Singh II Balbir Singh III Harmik Singh Jagjit Singh Harbinder Singh Tarsem Singh Inder Singh Gurbaksh Singh	Utz Aichinger Wolfgang Baumgart Hermann End Klaus Greinert Friedrich Josten Carsten Keller Detlev Kittstein Michael Krause Günther Krauss Dirk Michel Wolfgang Müller Wolfgang Rott Fritz Schmidt Norbert Schuler Ulrich Sloma Eckardt Suhl Uli Vos Jürgen Wein

Team DDR

GDR
Klaus Bahner Horst Brennecke Dieter Ehrlich Karl-Heinz Freiberger Rüdiger Kasch Dieter Willi Klauß Gerhard Krieger Lothar Lippert Jürgen Müller Helmut Rabis Hans-Dietrich Sasse Reinhard Sasse Rainer Stephan Axel Thieme Rolf Thieme Klaus Dreamer Eckhard Wallossek

Individual evidence

1. ^ IOC report 1998 (PDF; 24.43 MB) Volume 3 Part 1 Hockey
2. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. Die Chronik Teil 3.Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, p. 204, note 503
3. ↑ Photos from Pre Olympic Tournament played at Lords in 1967. Retrieved April 1, 2013 . 
4. ↑ Video: Hockey Match AKA Pre-Olympic Hockey Tournament 1967. Accessed April 1, 2013 . 
5. ↑ Volker Kluge, p. 28.
6. ↑ www.hockey.de Hockey History → Olympic Games

• IOC report 1998 (PDF; 10.96 MB) Volume 3 Part 2 Results, p. 706ff
• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 , p. 137 ff.