Field hockey at the 1956 Summer Olympics
| Field hockey at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
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Melbourne Cricket Ground Olympic Park Stadium |
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| Dates | November 23 – December 6, 1956 | |||||||||
| Competitors | 173 from 12 nations | |||||||||
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 India
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 Pakistan
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 Germany
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The field hockey tournament at the 1956 Summer Olympics was contested from November 23 to December 6, with twelve participating teams. Only men competed in field hockey at these Games. India won the gold medal for the sixth successive Games, not allowing a single goal against in the entire tournament. Pakistan won the silver medal, and Germany won the bronze.
Twelve teams were seeded and placed into one of three preliminary groups of four teams each. With the unbalanced seeding, the top two teams in Group C advanced to the semi-finals, but only the top team in both Groups A and B advanced.
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