Indian Men’s Team qualified for the Olympics after winning the Gold medal in the 2022 Asian Games. Indian Women’s Team could not qualify. The 16-member team has reached the quarterfinals. In 2020, the Men’s Team reached the semifinals. Indian team registered historic wins against Australia an other teams to win 2nd consecutive Bronze medal and 13th medal in Hockey.
- Indian History at Summer Olympics: Performances in Every Olympics
- History of All Sports Played at Olympics by India
- Indian Medals In Olympics: When and Who Got It!!
- Indian Women’s Hockey Team at Olympics
- Indian Men’s Hockey Team at Olympics
Highlights
- Defeated New Zealand and Ireland in the Group stage.
- Drew against Argentina in the Group stage.
- Lost to Belgium in the Group stage.
- Defeated Australia in Olympics after 52 years. Last won in 1972 by 3-1.
- Harmanpreet Singh with 10 goals is the 2nd highest goal scorer in the event.
- Netherlands won Gold medal defeating Germany 1-1 (3-1)
Men’s Squad
Coach: Craig Fulton (South Africa)
Captain: Harmanpreet Singh
Goalkeeper: P R Sreejesh
Forwards: Abhishek, Gurjant Singh, Mandeep Singh, Lalit Upadhyay
Defenders: Harmanpreet Singh, Jarmanpreet Singh, Sanjay, Sumit Walmiki, Amit Rohidas
Midfielders: Manpreet Singh, Hardik Singh, Shamsher Singh, Raj Kumar Pal, Vivek Prasad, Sukhjeet Singh
Results
Group Stage
| Opponent | Result | Scored | Conceded | Points | Goal Scorers |
| New Zealand (Jul 27) | Won | 3 | 2 | 3 | Mandeep(24), Vivek (34), Harmanpreet (59) |
| Argentina (Jul 29) | Draw | 1 | 1 | 1 | Harmanpreet (59) |
| Ireland (Jul 30) | Won | 2 | 0 | 3 | Harmanpreet (11, 19) |
| Belgium (Aug 1) | Lost | 1 | 2 | 0 | Abhishek (18) |
| Australia (Aug 2) | Won | 3 | 2 | 3 | Abhishek (12) Harmanpreet (15, 32) |
| Total | 7 | 5 | 10 | 4 players |
Points Table
| Rank | Team | Played | Won | Lost | Draw | Points |
| 1 | Belgium | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 13 |
| 2 | India | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 |
| 3 | Australia | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 4 | Argentina | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| 5 | New Zealand | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | Ireland | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Knock Out Matches
- QF: Defeated Great Britain 1-1 (4-2) – Harmanpreet Singh 22`
- SF: Lost to Germany (2-3) – Harmanpreet 7
, Sukhjeet 36` - Bronze Medal Match: Def Spain 2-1 – Harmanpreet 30`
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