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Who is the greatest field hockey player of all time based on Olympic Games performances? We have used a weighted total medal count of each male and female field hockey player from all modern Olympic Games to rank their overall performance, using data from all Olympics including the Tokyo 2020 Games.
The four best all-time performing field hockey players at the Olympic Games is the male Indian players Leslie Claudius and Udham Singh with four medals each (3 gold, 1 silver), a tally matched by the Netherlands female players Lidewij Welten and Eva de Goede. See the table below to see how other players ranked.
See also the best athlete from each sport, and the best overall.
Top Olympic Games Hockey Players
Here are the top ranked athletes from the sport of Field Hockey for performances at all Olympiads, using the Topend Sports Weighted Ranking System to order the athletes, awarding points for both gold (6 points) and other medals (silver 2 pts, bronze 1 pt).
Table: The Top Ranked Athletes from Field Hockey at the Olympic Games (including 2021)
| rank | name | country | gender | Gold | Silver | Bronze | total
medals | rating |
|---|
| =1 | Leslie Claudius | India | M | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 20 |
| =1 | Udham Singh | India | M | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 20 |
| =1 | Lidewij Welten | The Netherlands | F | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 20 |
| =1 | Eva de Goede | The Netherlands | F | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 20 |
| =5 | Rechelle Hawkes | Australia | F | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 18 |
| =5 | Richard Allen | India | M | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 18 |
| =5 | Dhyan Chand | India | M | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 18 |
| =5 | Ranganathan Francis | India | M | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 18 |
| =5 | Balbir Singh, Sr. | India | M | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 18 |
| =5 | Randhir Singh Gentle | India | M | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 18 |
notes: initial data from wikipedia of multiple Olympic gold medalists (with at least 3 gold medals, including results from 2021). For the ranking order, we have used the Topend Sports Weighted Ranking System.
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