Field hockey at the 1962 Asian Games

Field hockey at the 1962 Asian Games
Venue	Senayan Hockey Stadium
Location	Jakarta, Indonesia
Dates	25 August – 3 September
Teams	9
Medalists
Pakistan     India     Malaya
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Field hockey at the 1962 Asian Games on a stamp of Indonesia

The men's field hockey event at the 1962 Asian Games was the second edition of the field hockey event for men at the Asian Games.

It was held at the Senayan Hockey Stadium in Jakarta, Indonesia from 25 August to 3 September 1962. In this tournament, 9 teams played in the men's competition.

The defending champions Pakistan won its second gold medal by defeating India 2–0 in the final. The two finalists had remained undefeated throughout the tournament. Malaya won its first-ever medal by defeating Japan 2–0 in the bronze medal match.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	Pakistan Bashir Ahmed Noor Alam Manzoor Hussain Atif Tariq Aziz Naseer Bunda Munir Dar Zafar Hayat Mazhar Hussain Zakir Hussain Anwar Ahmed Khan Motiullah Khan Habib Ali Kiddie Muhammad Asad Malik Hayat Muhammad Tariq Niazi Chaudhry Ghulam Rasool Abdul Waheed Khwaja Zakauddin	India Joseph Antic Erman Bastian Rajendran Christie V. Deshmukh Abdul Hamid Shankar Lakshman Hiranna M. Nimal Bandu Patil Jaman Lal Sharma Charanjit Singh Darshan Singh Gurdev Singh Gurmit Singh Joginder Singh Madan Mohan Singh Piara Singh Prithipal Singh	Malaya Ismail Ali Kandiah Anandarajah Michael Arulraj Chua Eng Wah Ho Koh Chye Robin Jayesuria Doraisamy Munusamy Chelliah Paramalingam Arumugam Sabapathy Aboo Samah Manikam Shanmuganathan Mike Shepherdson Mani Sockalingam Mohd Hariff Taib Lawrence Van Huizen Rajaratnam Yogeswaran

Draw

The draw for hockey competition was held on 14 August 1962. ^[1]

Group A   India   Malaya   South Korea   Hong Kong

Group B   Pakistan   Japan   Indonesia   Ceylon   Singapore

Results

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	India	3	3	0	0	12	0	+12	6	Semi-finals
2	Malaya	3	2	0	1	9	4	+5	4
3	Hong Kong	3	1	0	2	2	8	−6	2
4	South Korea	3	0	0	3	1	12	−11	0

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

26 August 1962 India   3–0   Malaya Bastian  33', 45', 65' Umpires: McDowell (AUS) Matsumowa (JPN)

26 August 1962 South Korea   0–2   Hong Kong

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28 August 1962 Malaya   5–1   South Korea

28 August 1962 India   4–0   Hong Kong Bastian  3' Pr. Singh  16', 25', 50' Report

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30 August 1962 India   5–0   South Korea Pr. Singh  ?', 15', 45' Bastian  ?' Gurd. Singh  ?' Report

30 August 1962 Malaya   4–0   Hong Kong

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Pakistan	4	4	0	0	26	1	+25	8	Semi-finals
2	Japan	4	2	1	1	8	6	+2	5
3	Singapore	4	2	1	1	6	6	0	5
4	Ceylon	4	1	0	3	4	15	−11	2
5	Indonesia (H)	4	0	0	4	2	18	−16	0

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}
(H) Hosts

25 August 1962 Indonesia   1–3   Ceylon Sitaldas  4' Report Visuvasalingam Rajaratnam  6', 30' Girange Jayatissa  68'

25 August 1962 Pakistan   5–0   Japan

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26 August 1962 Japan   1–1   Singapore

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27 August 1962 Ceylon   1–9   Pakistan Donald Abeysekera  52' Report Waheed  1', 4', 19', 20', ?' Alam  17' Bunda Dar Motiullah

27 August 1962 Indonesia   1–2   Singapore

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29 August 1962 [2] Pakistan   4–0   Singapore Bunda  1', 70' Waheed  28' Dar  53'

29 August 1962 Ceylon   0–2   Japan

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30 August 1962 Indonesia   0–8   Pakistan

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31 August 1962 Ceylon   0–3   Singapore Report Mehar Singh  12' Cyril Dewitt  39' Douglas Nunis  60'

31 August 1962 Japan   5–0   Indonesia

Medal round

	Semi-finals				Final
	2 September
	India	7
					3 September
	Japan	0
					India	0
	2 September
					Pakistan	2
	Pakistan	5
	Malaya	0
					Third place
					3 September
					Japan	0
					Malaya	2

Semi-finals

2 September 1962 India   7–0   Japan Patil  3' Bastian  ?', ?', ?' Pr. Singh  ?', ?'

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2 September 1962 Pakistan   5–0   Malaya Waheed  3', 12', 51' Bunda  18', 58'

Bronze medal match

3 September 1962 Japan   0–2   Malaya

Gold medal match

3 September 1962 13:30 India   0–2   Pakistan Atif  33' Waheed  39' Umpires: McDowell (AUS) Kelly (NZL)

Final standings

Pos	Team	Pld	Pts
1	Pakistan	6	12
2	India	5	8
3	Malaya	5	6
4	Japan	6	5
5	Singapore	4	5
6	Hong Kong	3	2
7	Ceylon	4	2
8	South Korea	3	0
9	Indonesia (H)	4	0

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}
(H) Hosts

References

1. "India Play Malaya First in Bid to Regain Hockey Title". The Indian Express. 17 August 1962. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
2. "Pakistan Overwhelm Inspired Singapore". The Indian Express. Reuters. 30 August 2022. p. 8.

External links

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