World Cup Hockey (left) and World Cup Cricket (right) trophies

art 1 of the difference between Indian hockey and Indian cricket is on the topic of the respective sport's World Cup tournaments.

India hosted the 2010 Men's World Cup Hockey in Delhi, and co-hosted the 2011 Men's World Cup Cricket. The differences in the organisation and results of these two World Cups reflect the differences between the sports of hockey and cricket.

Geographical Diversity

3 of the 4 semi-finalists in the 2010 World Cup Hockey were from Europe (Germany, Netherlands, England). 3 of the 4 semi-finalists in the 2011 World Cup Cricket were from Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan). This may be unrelated, but these 3 semi-finalists - India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan - along with Bangladesh, finish near the bottom of every Olympics.

Since 1992, every World Cup Cricket final has featured either India, Pakistan or Sri Lanka. The 2011 World Cup Cricket featured, for the first time, an all-Indian subcontinental final (India vs. Sri Lanka).

In contrast, since 1994, no Asian country has featured in a World Cup Hockey final. The last time an all-Indian subcontinental final occured in World Cup Hockey was way back in 1975, when India beat Pakistan to win the World Cup.

In the 2010 World Cup Hockey, all the individual tournament awards went to Europeans. In contrast, in the 2011 World Cup Cricket, 8 of the 11 World Cup All-Star team members were from from the Indian subcontinent.

The center of gravity of world hockey is Europe and Australia. The centre of gravity of world cricket is just 3 neighbouring countries - India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka

As Sanjay Kumar wrote in The Diplomat:

If India wants to compete on the world stage, we have to play with the big guns. The developed nations we emulate and aspire to become have a strong presence in the Olympics. Russia, for instance, has long been recognized as a world power, but not recently in terms of military might or scientific advancement; rather, as a nation consistently near the top of the Olympic medal table. China is now not only an economic giant but also a sporting superpower - despite not playing cricket.

In the United States and across large parts of Europe, cricket is simply not a popular sport. A World Cup football victory, or a rich haul of Olympic gold medals are real feats of success for them, as such competitions involve almost all nations of the world.

For India, a country of 1.21 billion people, being the champion of cricket limits us to the status of a regional player confined to the boundaries of South Asia. Cricket remains a regional game, utterly foreign even to most of Asia. England is the only serious player from Europe, and Australia the only other notable country with loyalty to the game.

Show Me the Money

The 2010 World Cup Hockey offered zero prize money to the participating teams. In contrast, the 2011 World Cup Cricket offered the following prize money:

Finish	Prize Money
1st	US$ 3 million
2nd	US$ 1.5 million
Losing Semi-finalists (2)	US$ 0.75 million each
Losing Quarter-finalists (4)	US$ 0.37 million each

The fact that World Cup Hockey could not offer even some token prize money is a glaring difference between the two World Cup tournaments.

Song and Dance

The 2010 World Cup Football had a theme song (Waka Waka). The 2011 World Cup Cricket had a theme song - De Ghumake - composed by Shankar-Ehsan-Loy, and written by lyricist Manoj Yadav. In contrast, the 2010 World Cup Hockey had no theme song.

The 2010 World Cup Football had an Opening Ceremony. The 2011 World Cup Cricket had an Opening Ceremony. In contrast, the 2010 World Cup Hockey had no Opening Ceremony.

The 2010 World Cup Hockey lost two opportunities (no theme song, no Opening Ceremony) to attract a larger demographic, especially the youth.

Quarter-final Format

The 2010 World Cup Football had quarter-finals. The 2011 World Cup Cricket had quarter-finals. All the tennis majors have quarter-finals. Why cannot hockey have quarter-finals?

The 2010 World Cup Hockey had the top 2 teams in each pool qualify for the semi-finals. Instead, if it had the top 4 teams in each pool qualify for the quarter-finals, it would have given a chance to more countries to qualify for the knockout stage. The eventual winner in a quarter-final format has to win 3 straight to win the title, and there can be more chances for upsets along the way.

India ended up 4th in its pool, and evenually 8th in the 2010 World Cup Hockey. Use of the quarter-final format would have ensured India, Spain, Argentina and South Korea qualified for the knockout stage, thus keeping alive the hopes of these countries in the 2010 World Cup Hockey.

Multiple Venues, Multiple Weeks

The 2010 World Cup Hockey (12 countries) was played at a single venue (Dhyan Chand National Stadium) over a duration of 2 weeks.

In contrast, the 2011 World Cup Cricket (14 countries) was played in multiple venues in multiple countries over a span of 43 days! However, this relatively long duration of 6 weeks for a tournament seems to be a stretch, when you compare across sports.

The 2008 Beijing Olympics saw 11,024 athletes compete in 302 events within 17 days. All the tennis Grand Slams last a fortnight. The 2010 Football World Cup, with 32 participating countries, took place over a month.

No wonder that in the 2011 World Cup Cricket, when England played Ireland in Bengaluru, or when South Africa played England in Chennai, or when New Zealand played Pakistan in Pallekele in Sri Lanka, the stadiums sported a haunted look. The terraces were empty. There was no shouting, no flag-waving and no applauding.

India's Performance

The biggest difference between the 2010 World Cup Hockey and the 2011 World Cup Cricket was India's performance. It was pathetic in hockey, and extraordinary in cricket.

India won only one game in the 2010 World Cup Hockey. In contrast, India lost only one game in the 2011 World Cup Cricket.

In the 2010 World Cup Hockey, India went winless for 5 games in a row, and failed to win against 4 continents - Europe (England, Spain), Oceania (Australia), America (Argentina) and Africa (South Africa).

With such a weak, listless and uninspiring performance at a home World Cup, Indian hockey lost a golden opportunity to win the hearts and minds of Indian sports fans, corporate sponsors and celebrities. For this sorry state of affairs, Indian hockey has only itself to blame.

Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni's World Cup advertisement for Pepsi

art 2 of the difference between Indian hockey and Indian cricket is on the topic of player earnings from their respective sports.

Indian cricket players have five sources of income:

• Annual retainer fees (from BCCI)
• Match fees (from BCCI)
• Performance Bonus (from BCCI)
• Endorsement fees (from Corporate Sponsors)
• Indian Premier League (from Franchises)

Indian hockey players have no retainer fees, no match fees, no performance bonus, ZERO endorsements and no nationwide league. Indeed, hockey players are the nameless, brandless, penniless face of Indian sports.

Retainer Fees

While there are no central contracts in Indian hockey, Indian cricketers are categorised into 3 grades (A, B, C) and given the following annual retainer fees:

Grade	Retainer Fee	Players
A	1 crore	Sachin Tendulkar, M. S. Dhoni + 7 others
B	50 lakhs	Yuvraj Singh + 6 others
C	25 lakhs	S. Sreesanth + 7 others

Match Fees

In addition to the retainership fees, Indian cricketers who make it to the Playing XI also get paid the following match fees:

Match Type	Match Fee
Test Match	7 lakhs
One-day International	4 lakhs
T20 Match	2 lakhs

At a rough estimate, an Indian cricketer would feature in 10 Tests, 25 One-day Internationals, and 5 T20s in an average year, leading to total match fees of 1.8 crores/year.

What about the national sport of hockey? In January 2010, Indian hockey players went on a strike prior to the World Cup after Hockey India, failed to pay them their dues. Hockey India offered to pay each player 25,000. This offer was rejected by players as befitting a school side and not a national team. Team sponsor Sahara then put in 1 crore in a suspense account for immediate distribution to the hockey players to end the strike.

Performance Bonus

In addition to match fees, the BCCI also pays Indian players performance bonuses if they win major tournaments, as shown below:

Tournament	Prize Money	Performance Bonus
2007 T20 World Cup	2 crores to champions India	80 lakhs bonus to each player
2011 World Cup Cricket	US$ 3 million to champions India	1 crore bonus to each player

In contrast, when Indian won the Asia Cup Hockey in 2007, the Indian Hockey Federation announced a hare-brained incentive for the team where they would receive 1000 for every goal scored and lose 2000 for every goal conceded.

Endorsements

Top Indian cricketers also get paid the following endorsement fees (figures below are pre-World Cup rates):

Player	Endorsment Fee	Brand Manager	Nos. of Brands
Mahendra Singh Dhoni	6-7 crores/brand	Rhiti Sports Management	19 brands - Aircel, Pepsico, Maxx mobile, Sony India, Reebok, etc.
Sachin Tendulkar	4-5 crores/brand	Iconix	16 brands - Adidas, Boost, Canon, Reynolds, Toshiba, etc.
Yuvraj Singh	4 crores/brand		Reebok, Parachute, Birla Sun Life Insurance, etc.

There is not a single product that is being endorsed by any Indian hockey player. The difference between Indian hockey and Indian cricket can be seen by the fact that for the 2010 World Cup Hockey, title sponsor Hero Honda had to resort to a cricket player (Virendra Sehvag) to endorse the hockey tournament.

Indian Premier League (IPL)

While there is no nationwide league in hockey, the following are the IPL player salaries for a 7-week league:

Player	IPL Fees	IPL Team
Gautam Gambhir	$2.4 million	Kolkata Knight Riders
Robin Singh	$2.1 million	Pune Warriors
Yusuf Pathan	$2.1 million	Kolkata Knight Riders
Irfan Pathan	$1.9 million	Delhi Daredevils
Yuvraj Singh	$1.8 million	Pune Warriors

To this day, Indian hockey players get US$ 14 as per diem allowance when they tour abroad. There you have the difference between Indian hockey and Indian cricket - it is the difference between million dollar cricketers and US$14 per day players.

art 3 of the difference between Indian hockey and Indian cricket is on the topic of the respective sport's World Cup television ratings.

The following were the TAM television ratings associated with the 2010 World Cup Hockey:

• 2.13 TVR - India vs. Spain
• 2.02 TVR - India vs. Pakistan
• 1.93 TVR - India vs. Australia

India's television ratings during the 2010 World Cup Hockey started going downhill when India went winless for 5 games in a row to end a miserable tournament.

Now we come to the 2011 World Cup Cricket.

Non-Indian Match Ratings

The non-India World Cup Cricket matches delivered an average TVR of 1.8. In particular, ratings for non-Test playing countries were quite low. For example, Zimbabwe vs. Canada, West Indies vs. Netherlands and Kenya vs. Sri Lanka all garnered less than 1 TVR ratings.

Only 3 non-India World Cup Cricket matches scored higher ratings than India's peak rating of 2.13 in the 2010 World Cup Hockey.

• 5.9 TVR - New Zealand vs. Sri Lanka
• 4.6 TVR - Pakistan vs. Sri Lanka
• 2.5 TVR - England vs. Netherlands

In general, the television ratings for Indian hockey are comparable/higher than the average television ratings for non-Indian cricket.

India Match Ratings

The 9 India matches in the 2011 World Cup Cricket delivered an average TVR of 16.0 (ESS bouquet + Doordarshan), with some of the ratings listed below:

• 7.8 TVR - India vs. Bangladesh
• 12.6 TVR - India vs. England
• 21 TVR - India vs. Pakistan (semi-final)
• 23.2 TVR - India vs. Sri Lanka (final)

By way of comparison, the 2007 World Cup Cricket final between Australia and Sri Lanka scored an average TRP of just 4.53. It just goes to show the impact of India's performance on television ratings. Both the Cricket World Cup and Hockey World Cup need India to do well in order for the television ratings to be healthy.

Television Reach

The India-Sri Lanka final was being watched by 120.5 million viewers, or 61% of all Cable+Satellite viewers.

The India-Pakistan semifinal was watched by 102.2 million viewers, or 51% of all Cable+Satellite viewers.

ESPN-Star Sports hiked its advertising rates to as much as 8-9 lakhs for a 10 second spot for the India-Australia quarter-final, and 17-18 lakhs for a 10 second spot for the India-Pakistan semi-final - a huge jump from the 3.5- 4 lakhs for a 10 second spot the broadcaster charged before the start of the tournament.

Sports broadcasters usually keep about 10% unsold inventory in the bag so that they can charge a premium for it in the final stages of the tournament. With India reaching the World Cup Cricket final, this strategy worked perfectly, with brands jumping over each other to advertise in India's matches.

Shah Rukh Khan celebrates India's World Cup Cricket victory
Photograph by Yogen Shah, courtesy IBN Live

art 4 of the difference between Indian hockey and Indian cricket is on the topic of the respective sport's celebrity following.

In the entire 2010 World Cup Hockey, only one film star - Priyanka Chopra - attended part of a match featuring India (along with title sponsor Hero Honda's CEO Pavan Munjal).

Note that Hero Honda had to use a cricketer (Virendra Sehvag), a film star (Priyanka Chopra) and an Olympic silver medallist (Rajyavardhan Rathore) to promote the 2010 World Cup Hockey, since no Indian hockey player had/has brand or name recognition.

One other film star - Ajay Devgan - was staying in the same hotel as the Indian hockey team during the 2010 World Cup. Ajay was in Delhi for promoting his movie 'Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge?'. Even though he had his appointment diary full of meetings, appointments and interviews in connection with his film, Ajay took time off to meet the entire hockey team in the hotel, and wish them the best in the World Cup.

Now we come to the 2011 World Cup Cricket. Every film star worth their name tried to attend the semi-finals (against Pakistan) and the final (against Sri Lanka).

Sunil Shetty, Amir Khan, Shilpa Shetty attended the World Cup Cricket semi-final, while South superstar Rajnikanth, daughter Soundarya, actor Aamir Khan, Aamir's wife Kiran Rao, Preity Zinta (with tricolour bangles), Sunil Shetty and Rahul Bose attended the final.

After India won the final, Player of the Tournament Yuvraj Singh called Aamir Khan, who was on his way home from the match. Aamir asked his driver to turn the car around and returned to the Indian team's hotel. He then went on to party with the Indian players till 6 am.

The day after the victory, the President of India Pratibha Patil called the Indian team for tea at the Raj Bhavan in Mumbai. Billionaire industrialists like Mukesh Ambani, Kumarmangalam Birla and Adi Godrej attended the reception for the Indian cricket team.

Shilpa Shetty told a television channel after the final, "When I saw Yuvraj Singh cry, I also started crying.". Amitabh Bachchan tweeted, "Incredible! It's like India just won its independence".

Shah Rukh Khan took his family to South Africa to watch the 2010 Football World Cup, took his family to South Africa to watch the 2007 Twenty20 World Cup final, hosted a game-viewing party at his bungalow to watch the 2011 World Cup final, and drove down the streets outside his Bandra residence in Mumbai and shouted out Chak de India! to celebrate the World Cup Cricket victory.

There is one matter of detail. The superhit movie Chak de India! starring Shah Rukh Khan was on the national sport of hockey, and yet Shah Rukh Khan was conspicuously absent at the 2010 World Cup Hockey. This sums up Bollywood's association with Indian cricket, which is to the exclusion of all other Indian sports.

   

Sachin Tendulkar wins a Volvo S80 (left), Gagan Ajeet Singh wins a Scooter (right)

art 5 of the difference between Indian hockey and Indian cricket is on the topic of gifts and prizes. The difference between Indian hockey and Indian cricket is the difference between a cycle/scooter and a Mercedes/Ferrari/Volvo/Audi/Hyundai, or the difference between a hut and a luxury villa, so vast is the gulf between the two sports.

In October 1998, the 49th Women's National Hockey Championships took place in Chennai. The Player of the Tournament, Sita Gossein of Railways, was awarded a CYCLE.

One month later, in November 1998, the Coca Cola 3-Nation tournament in cricket was held in Sharjah. Indian skipper Mohammed Azharuddin won a MERCEDES 500 SEL luxury car for becoming the leading run scorer in one-day internationals.

Fast forward to 2003. India had whipped Pakistan 7-4 in the Amsterdam Champions Trophy, thanks to some amazing goals by Gagan Ajeet Singh (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8KsVaJLOYI). The following month, India won the 2003 Asia Cup Hockey, for the first time ever. Star forward Gagan Ajeet Singh was rewarded by his state government with a SCOOTER.

That same year, the Government of India amended the Customs Act in order to waive customs duty totalling 1.13 crores (US$ 250,860) on a FERRARI 360 MODENA that was gifted to Sachin Tendulkar. After public protest, Fiat India paid the Customs duty on behalf of Tendulkar.

Fast forward to 2010. Around the time of the Hero Honda World Cup, when Indian hockey players were staging a strike to demand their match fees, Sachin Tendulkar won a VOLVO S80 twin-turbo diesel car as the Player of the India - South Africa Series.

Now comes the 2011 World Cup Cricket. German luxury car maker Audi awarded Yuvraj Singh an AUDI Q5 SUV for his Player of the Series performance. ICC Partner Hyundai is gifting each member of the World Cup winning squad a HYUNDAI VERNA RB sedan.

Karnataka Chief Minister Yeddyurappa rushed to announce a Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) site measuring 4000 sq. ft. for each of the 16 players of the World Cup winning team. As per rules, BDA site recipients have to be residents of Bengaluru for at least 10 years. However, the World Cup winning squad did not contain a single player from the state of Karnataka, let alone the city of Bengaluru!

That prompted the Karnataka public to ask: Is the BDA land the Chief Minister's baap ka maal? RTI activist B. M. Shivakumar said, "Mr. Yeddyurappa is a democratically elected chief minister, and not a king. How can he make such arbitrary and whimsical decisions?"

Real estate firm Amrapali announced that the entire World Cup winning Indian cricket team will be given villas at its luxury township 'Amrapali Dream Valley Project' at Noida extension. Captain Dhoni was presented with an exotic grand villa covering 2,900 sq ft worth 1 crore, while other team members were gifted villas covering 1,690 sq. ft. worth 55 lakh each.

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhrayal Nishank promised a residential plot or a house in Mussoorie hill station for Dhoni and Sachin Tendulkar, who has been a regular visitor there with his family.

Now look at the living accomodation of Indian hockey player Amit Prabhakar, who played for India in the 2010 Azlan Shah Cup and the 2010 Hamburg Masters.

Amit's father Amarnath Prabhakar was a waiter at the Lucknow Sports College mess. After his death in April 2009, Amit's mother Kusum Prabhakar works in the mess there on ad hoc basis, earing around 1,500 per month. Amit's mother and siblings stayed in a hut inside the College premises.

After Amit represented India, Lucknow Sports College principal A. K. Banoda gave accomodation to Amit's family in a three-room quarter in the Sports College.

Indian hockey player Amit's family's humble accomodations puts in perspective the state government sites and private luxury villas and hill station holiday homes for the already privileged Indian cricketers.

A graphic by Parminder Singh

he Photograph of the Month for April 2011 is a graphic that asks a simple question - Is Hockey India's National Game?

Based on fan following, television ratings, player salaries, player endorsements, celebrity associations and recent achievements, cricket is India's National Game.

Two generations of Indians have been born since India won a World Cup Hockey gold (1975) or an Olympic Hockey gold (1980). The youth of the country has never experienced the thrill of India winning any world title in hockey.

Over the past three decades, India has gradually downgraded itself to become a single-sport country. The hearts of Indians are not big enough to follow any sport other than international men's cricket.

ack in 1965, Balkrishan Singh was sent to Australia to train the women's national squad. About half a century later, an Indian coach was again sent to Australia, this time to learn from the Australians.

Move over India, the new masters of world hockey are Australia. For the record, Australian men won the 2008 Beijing Olympics bronze, won the 2009 and 2010 Champions Trophy golds, won the 2010 Delhi World Cup gold, and won the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games gold.

In contrast, Indian men did not qualify for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, did not qualify for the 2009 and 2010 Champions Trophy tournaments, finished a dismal 8th in 2010 Delhi World Cup, and got whipped 0-8 by Australia in the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games final.

Seeing the depths that Indian hockey has sunk to, the Australia-India Council, in association with Hockey Australia and Hockey India, arranged for two u-25 national players (one male, one female) and a coach to train for 10 days at Australia's National Institute of Sports in Perth.

This annual scholarship is sponsored by both the Government of India and the Australian Government.

In the first year of this scheme, national team assistant coach Clarence Lobo, and upcoming youngsters Danish Mujtaba and Joydeep Kaur trained at the institute. 1986 Australian World Cup winning captain Ric Charlesworth designed the training programme along with Neil Hawgood, the women's team coach.

Said Joydeep Kaur, "The facilities at AIS are world-class, and the interactions with Charlesworth and Neil Hawgood were very fruitful. We worked a lot on physical fitness." Clarence Lobo received coaching tips from the Australian legend, and also participated in sessions on use of video analysis in hockey.

Article by Kusum Arora, Photo by Malkiat Singh, courtesy The Tribune

ansarpur Olympian and Arjuna Puraskar winner Col. Balbir Singh (retd.) is busy these days writing his autobiography titled "Hitting the Target - Memories of Kular".

Talking to The Tribune, Col. Balbir Singh said, "I have been associated with hockey since the days when it used to rule the hearts of every Indian. I had a desire to write something on hockey, and I decided to go ahead with my autobiography."

"I am hopeful that this book will help the readers get an insight into some interesting and significant developments in hockey, and my lifelong association with the national game," said the present selector of the Indian men's and women's hockey teams. The book, which is in the initial stages, will have chapters on "When Hockey used to be Singh", "List of all Balbir Singhs from Sansarpur", among others.

Col. Balbir said that important milestones of his life were joining the Army in 1965, representing Services in the National Hockey Championship from 1965 to 1974, and captaining the Services team that won the Bombay Gold Cup in 1971.

The former Olympian, national coach and selector was a member of the Indian team which won the gold medal at the 1966 Bangkok Asian Games, and the bronze medal in the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games.

"As a Gentleman Cadet at the Indian Military Academy (IMA), Dehradun, I was the second officer to have been selected for the Olympics. The first was Capt. A. I. S. Dara, who played in the 1936 Berlin Olympics for undivided India," he said, adding that the book will also include a special chapter on his association with the Army Service Corps (ASC).

The foreword of the book will be written by Chief of the Army Staff, General V. K. Singh. Col Balbir is also looking forward to the release of the book by Gen V. K. Singh in Delhi.

he April 2011 Visitor of the Month is Jimmy Bhogal, who maintains hockey blogs on SportsKeeda.com and BlogSpot.com. Jimmy wrote the following to BharatiyaHockey.org:

I write articles/blogs on Indian hockey, but find that we are losing fans of field hockey. Can you suggest people who can write about Indian hockey so that we can keep the game in the media spotlight, and help us to gain new hockey fans.

Statistics by B. G. Joshi
(with inputs from Pat Rowley, Cathy Harris and Eric Weil)

he April 2011 edition of Fun with Numbers lists living coaches who have won either an Olympic hockey gold or a World Cup hockey gold, after the introduction of artificial turf (in 1976). There is not a single Indian in the list - Indian coaches have been unable to go past coaching a continental championship.

The chief national coaches of men's Olympic and World Cup winning teams are listed below. Of these coaches:

• Roelant Oltmans is the only coach of both Olympic and World Cup gold medal winning men's teams
• Roelant Oltmans is the only coach of back-to-back Olympic gold medal winning men's teams
• Bernhard Peters and Hans Jorritsma are the only two coaches of back-to-back World Cup gold medal winning men's teams
• Hans Jorritsma is the only coach of two different World Cup gold medal winning men's national teams

MEN'S HOCKEY GOLD MEDAL WINNING COACHES

Coach	Country	Gold Medals	Olympics	World Cup
Roelant Oltmans	Netherlands	3	1996, 2000	1998
Bernhard Peters	Germany	2		2002, 2006
Hans Jorritsma	Netherlands	2		1990, 1994 (for Pakistan)
Ric Charlesworth	Australia	1		2010
Markus Weise	Germany	1	2008
Barry Dancer	Australia	1	2004
Paul Lissek	Germany	1	1992
David Whitaker	Great Britain	1	1988
Richard Aggiss	Australia	1		1986
Khwaja Zakauddin	Pakistan	1	1984
Ross Gillespie	New Zealand	1	1976

The chief national coaches of women's Olympic and World Cup winning teams are listed below. Of these coaches:

• Ric Charlesworth, Gijs van Heumen and Marc Lamers have coached both Olympic and World Cup gold medal winning women's teams
• Ric Charlesworth is the only coach of back-to-back Olympic gold medal winning women's teams
• Ric Charlesworth and Gijs van Heumen are the only two coaches of back-to-back World Cup gold medal winning women's teams

WOMEN'S HOCKEY GOLD MEDAL WINNING COACHES

Coach	Country	Gold Medals	Olympics	World Cup
Ric Charlesworth	Australia	4	1996, 2000	1994, 1998
Gijs van Heumen	Netherlands	3	1984	1983, 1986
Marc Lamers	Netherlands	2	2008	2006
Carlos Retugi	Argentina	1		2010
Markus Weise	Germany	1	2004
Sergio Vigil	Argentina	1		2002
Jose Brasa	Spain	1	1992
Roelant Oltmans	Netherlands	1		1990
Brian Glencross	Australia	1	1988
Anthea Stewart	Zimbabwe	1	1980

If we look at coaching records across genders:

• Markus Weise is the only coach of both men's and women's Olympic gold medal winning teams
• Ric Charlesworth and Roelant Oltmans are the only coaches of both men's and women's World Cup gold medal winning teams