Field hockey at the 1928 Summer Olympics
The 1928 Summer Olympics saw the third field Hockey tournament at Olympics. All games took place either in the new Olympisch Stadion or in the nearby Old Stadion. The field hockey tournament was held (together with football) in the first part of this Olympic games. All matches were played between Thursday, May 17 and Saturday, May 26, 1928.[1]
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| Venues | Olympic Stadium Old Stadion | |||||||||
| Dates | 17–26 May 1928 | |||||||||
| Teams | 9 | |||||||||
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The entry rules allowed one team from each country. And one team was allowed to include 22 players, which means two complete teams. The "Fédération Internationale de Hockey" defined the amateur status as follows: An amateur is one who has never obtained any profit by practicing the sport, neither directly or indirectly. If a player or an official accepts from club, association, or federation an amount exceeding what is strictly necessary for traveling and hotel expenses, such an amount will be regarded as profit.
Only a men's competition occurred that year. Nine nations competed, after the retirement of Czechoslovakia.
Squads
Results
Division A
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 |  India |
4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 0 | +26 | 8 | Gold medal match |
| 2 | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Belgium |
4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 9 | −1 | 6 | Bronze medal match |
| 3 |  Denmark |
4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 8 | −3 | 4 | |
| 4 |  Switzerland |
4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 11 | −9 | 2 | |
| 5 |  Austria |
4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 14 | −13 | 0 |
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Division B
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 |  Netherlands (H) |
3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | +6 | 5 | Gold medal match |
| 2 |  Germany |
3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | +5 | 4 | Bronze medal match |
| 3 | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} France |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 | −6 | 2 | |
| 4 | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Spain |
3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | −5 | 1 |
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Bronze medal match
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Gold medal match
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Statistics
Final standings
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Netherlands |
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Germany |
| 4 | Belgium |
| 5 | Denmark |
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| 7 | Switzerland |
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| 9 | Austria |
Goalscorers
There were 69 goals scored in 18 matches, for an average of 3.83 goals per match.
14 goals
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
Medal summary
| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| India (IND) Richard Allen Dhyan Chand Michael Gateley William Goodsir-Cullen Leslie Hammond Feroze Khan George Marthins Rex Norris Broome Pinniger Michael Rocque Frederic Seaman Ali Shaukat Jaipal Singh Sayed Yusuf Kher Singh Gill |
Netherlands (NED) Jan Ankerman Jan Brand Rein de Waal Emile Duson Gerrit Jannink Adriaan Katte August Kop Ab Tresling Paul van de Rovaart Robert van der Veen Haas Visser 't Hooft C. J. J. Hardebeck T. F. Hubrecht G. Leembruggen H. J. L. Mangelaar Meertens Otto Muller von Czernicki W. J. van Citters C. J. van der Hagen Tonny van Lierop J. J. van Tienhoven van den Bogaard J. M. van Voorst van Beest N. Wenholt |
.svg.png.webp){kind=small} Germany (GER)Bruno Boche Georg Brunner Heinz Förstendorf Erwin Franzkowiak Werner Freyberg Theodor Haag Hans Haußmann Kurt Haverbeck Aribert Heymann Herbert Hobein Fritz Horn Karl-Heinz Irmer Herbert Kemmer Herbert Müller Werner Proft Gerd Strantzen Rolf Wollner Heinz Wöltje Erich Zander Fritz Lincke Heinz Schäfer Kurt Weiß |
Note: The players above the line played at least one game in this tournament, the players below the line were probably only squad members. Nevertheless, the International Olympic Committee medal database exclusively credits them all as medalists. If or why they could have received medals is uncertain. However the National Olympic Committee of the Netherlands does not even show the Dutch players as competitors.
References
- "Hockey at the 1928 Amsterdam Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Field hockey at the 1928 Summer Olympics. |
- Netherlands Olympic Committee (1928). "The Ninth Olympiad Amsterdam 1928 - Official Report" (PDF). Amsterdam J. H. de Bussy, Ltd. Archived from the original (pdf) on 2008-04-08.
- International Olympic Committee medal database
- Wudarski (in Polish)
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