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
----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
----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:
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.| Place | Nation |
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| 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 |