The men's field hockey tournament at the 1956 Summer Olympics was the eighth edition of the field hockey event for men at the Summer Olympics. It was contested from 23 November to 6 December, 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.
Medalists
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|<br />Leslie Claudius<br />Ranganathan Francis<br />Haripal Kaushik<br />Amir Kumar<br />Raghbir Lal<br />Shankar Lakshman<br />O. P. Malhotra<br />Govind Perumal<br />Amit Singh Bakshi<br />Raghbir Singh Bhola<br />Balbir Singh Dosanjh<br />Hardyal Singh Garchey<br />Randhir Singh Gentle<br />Balkishan Singh Grewal<br />Gurdev Singh Kullar<br />Udham Singh Kullar<br />Bakshish Singh<br />Charles Stephen
|<br />Zakir Hussain<br />Munir Ahmed Dar<br />Ghulam Rasool<br />Anwar Ahmed Khan<br />Qazi Massarrat Hussain<br />Noor Alam<br />Abdul Hamid<br />Habibur Rehman<br />Ahmed Naseer Bunda<br />Motiullah<br />Latif-ur Rehman<br />Akhtar Hussain<br />Habib Ali Kiddie<br />Manzoor Hussain Atif
|<br />Günther Brennecke<br />Hugo Budinger<br />Werner Delmes<br />Hugo Dollheiser<br />Eberhard Ferstl<br />Alfred Lücker<br />Helmut Nonn<br />Wolfgang Nonn<br />Heinz Radzikowski<br />Werner Rosenbaum<br />Günther Ullerich
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Participating nations
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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Squads
Results
Preliminary round
Pool A
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Pool B
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Play–off match
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Pool C
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Classification round
Ninth to twelfth place classification
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Fifth to eighth place classification
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Medal round
Bracket
Semi-finals
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