Field hockey at the 1966 Asian Games

Field hockey at the 1966 Asian Games
Venue	Thephasadin Stadium
Location	Bangkok, Thailand
Dates	12–19 December
Teams	8
Medalists
India    Pakistan    Japan
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Field hockey was contested for men only at the 1966 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand.

India won its first gold medal by defeating the two-time defending champions Pakistan 1–0 after extra time in the final. Japan won its first medal by defeating Malaysia 1–0 in the bronze medal match.

Medalists[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	India Haripal Kaushik Balbir Singh Kular Balbir Singh Kullar Mohinder Lal Shankar Lakshman John Peter Dharam Singh Gurbux Singh Harbinder Singh Harmik Singh Inder Singh Jagjit Singh Prithipal Singh Tarsem Singh	Pakistan Ashfaq Ahmed Laeeq Ahmed Saeed Anwar Tariq Aziz Khizer Nawaz Bajwa Jahangir Butt Munir Dar Abdul Hamid Khalid Mahmood Muhammad Asad Malik Tariq Niazi Fazal-ur-Rehman Abdul Rashid Abdul Waheed Khwaja Zakauddin	Japan Yukio Kamimura Shigeo Kaoku Akio Kudo Norihiko Matsumoto Shozo Nishimura Akio Takashima Akihito Wada Minoru Yoshimura Katsuhiro Yuzaki Tsuneya Yuzaki

Draw[]

The draw for hockey competition was held on 5 December 1966.^[1]

Results[]

Preliminary round[]

Group A[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Pakistan	3	2	1	0	18	0	+18	5	Semi-finals
2	Japan	3	2	1	0	5	0	+5	5
3	Hong Kong	3	1	0	2	2	6	−4	2
4	Thailand (H)	3	0	0	3	0	19	−19	0

12 December 1966 Pakistan  0–0  Japan

12 December 1966 Hong Kong  2–0  Thailand

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13 December 1966 Pakistan  5–0  Hong Kong

13 December 1966 Japan  4–0  Thailand

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15 December 1966 Pakistan  13–0  Thailand

15 December 1966 Japan  1–0  Hong Kong

Group B[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	India	3	3	0	0	9	0	+9	6	Semi-finals
2	Malaysia	3	1	1	1	2	1	+1	3
3	South Korea	3	1	0	2	1	7	−6	2
4	Ceylon	3	0	1	2	0	4	−4	1

12 December 1966 South Korea  1–0  Ceylon

12 December 1966 India  1–0  Malaysia

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13 December 1966 Malaysia  2–0  South Korea

13 December 1966 India  3–0  Ceylon

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14 December 1966 India  1–0  South Korea

14 December 1966 Malaysia  0–0  Ceylon

Consolation round[]

	5–8th place semi-finals				5th place
	16 December
	Hong Kong	1
					17 December
	Ceylon	3
					Ceylon	1
	16 December
					South Korea	0
	South Korea	1
	Thailand	0

5–8th place semi-finals[]

16 December 1966 Hong Kong  1–3  Ceylon

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16 December 1966 South Korea  1–0  Thailand

5th place match[]

17 December 1966 Ceylon  1–0  South Korea

Medal round[]

	Semi-finals				Gold medal match
	16 December
	Pakistan	5
					19 December
	Malaysia	1
					Pakistan	0
	16 December
					India (a.e.t.)	1
	India	3
	Japan	0
					Bronze medal match
					19 December
					Malaysia	0
					Japan	1

Semi-finals[]

16 December 1966 Pakistan  5–1  Malaysia

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16 December 1966 India  3–0  Japan

Bronze medal match[]

19 December 1966 Malaysia  0–1  Japan

Gold medal match[]

19 December 1966 Pakistan  0–1 (a.e.t.)  India Report Balbir Singh  90'

Final standings[]

1.  India
2.  Pakistan
3.  Japan
4.  Malaysia
5.  Ceylon
6.  South Korea
7.  Hong Kong
8.  Thailand

References[]

External links[]

• Asian Games field hockey results