Olympic Games

ADLARD TO WOOD – OUR MEDALLISTS REMEMBERED

Every GB Hockey Medal since 1908 recorded

G=Gold
S=Silver
B=Bronze

Robert ADLARD
1948 S
Eric ALLMAN-SMITH
1908 S
Charles ATKIN
1920 G
Gillian ATKINS
1992 B
Louischarles BAILLON
1908 G
Paul BARBER
1984 B + 1988 G
Stephen BATCHELOR
1984 B + 1988 G
Lisa BAYLISS
1992 B
John BENNETT
1920 G
Kulbir Singh BHAURA
1984 B + 1988 G
Norman BORRETT
1948 S
David BRODIE
1948 S
Henry BROWN
1908 S
Karen BROWN
1992 B
Colin CAMPBELL
1920 G
Walter CAMPBELL
1908 S
Denys CARNILL
1952 B
Harold CASSELS
1920 G
Robert CATTRALL
1984 B
Robert CLIFT
1988 G
John COCKETT
1952 B
John CONROY
1952 B
Harold COOK
1920 G
Eric CROCKFORD
1920 G
Reginald CRUMMACK 1920 G
Graham DADDS
1952 B
Ronald DAVIS
1948 S
Richard DODDS
1984 B+ 1988 G
Victoria DIXON
1992 B
James DUTHIE
1984 B
Dennis EAGAN
1952 B
David FAULKNER
1988 G
Robin FLETCHER
1952 B
Susan FRASER
1992 B
Wendy FRASER
1992 B
Harry FREEMAN
1908 G
Russell GARCIA
1988 G
William GRAHAM
1908 S
Eric GREEN
1908 G
Richard GREGG
1908 S
William GRIFFITHS
1948 S
Martin GRIMLEY
1988 G
Harry HASLAM
1920 G
Edgar HOLMES
1908 S
Norman HUGHES
1984 B
Kathryn JOHNSON
1992 B
Robert KENNEDY
1908 S
Sean KERLY
1984 B+ 1988 G
James KIRKWOOD
1988 G
Arthur LEIGHTON
1920 G
Richard LEMAN
1984 B + 1988 G
Frederick LINDSAY
1948 S
William LINDSAY
1948 S
Sandie LISTER
1992 B
Gerald LOGAN
1908 G
John MCBRYAN
1920 G
William MCCONNELL
1984 B
George MCGRATH
1920 G
Jackie McWILLIAMS
1992 B
Charles MARCOM
1920 G
Stephen MARTIN
1984 B + 1988 G
Roger MIDGLEY
1952 B
Tammy MILLER
1992 B
Helen MORGAN
1992 b
Henry MURPHY
1908 S
Mary NEVILLE
1992 B
Mandy NICHOLLS
1992 B
Alan NOBLE
1908 G
Richard NORRIS
1952 B
Nigel NUGENT
1952 B
Anthony NUNN
1952 B
Edgar PAGE
1908 G
Veryan PAPPIN
1984 B + 1988 G
John PEAKE
1948 S
Walter PETERSON
1908 S
Jonathan POTTER
1984 B+ 1988 G
Charles POWER
1908 S
Mark PRECIOUS
1984 B
Reginald PRIDMORE
1908 G
Alison RAMSAY
1992 B
Percy REES
1908 G
Frank REYNOLDS
1948 S
Anthony ROBINSON
1952 B
Frank ROBINSON
1908 S
John ROBINSON
1908 G
Imran SHERWANI
1988 G
Stanley SHOVELLER
1908 G + 1920 G
Jane SIXSMITH
1992 B
William SMITH
1920 G
Ian TAYLOR
1984 B+ 1988 G
John TAYLOR
1952 B
Joanne THOMPSON
1992 B
Michael WALFORD
1948 S
David WESTCOTT
1984 B
Neil WHITE
1948 S
Cyril WILKINSON
1920 G
Harvey WOOD
1908 G

FINAL TABLE – 2008 OLYMPIC HOCKEY TOURNAMENT IN BEIJING

Olympic Medal Winning Nations 1896 to 2012

WOMEN:
1. NETHERLANDS
2. CHINA
3. ARGENTINA
4. GERMANY
5. AUSTRALIA
6. GREAT BRITAIN
7. SPAIN
8. USA
9. KOREA
10 JAPAN
11. SOUTH AFRICA
12. NEW ZEALAND

MEN:
1. GERMANY
2. SPAIN
3. AUSTRALIA
4. NETHERLANDS
5. GREAT BRITAIN
6. KOREA
7. NEW ZEALAND
8. PAKISTAN
9. BELGIUM
10. CANADA
11. CHINA
12. SOUTH AFRICA

The 2008 Olympic Games are now over and we’re looking forward to 2012 when London will be hosting its third Olympics in the history of the Games. No other city has hosted the games as many times. On the last two occasions GB won a gold (as England in 1908) and a Silver in 1947. Can we hope to be in the medals this time around?

Two stadiums are being built for hockey. The main one will have accommodation for 15,000 spectators, with the second having accommodation for 5,000. Construction is due to start in 2010.

Although artists impressions have been released for the main hockey stadium, these are no longer available through official sources, and we believe that the design of the stadium may have fundamentally changed since the bid process took place.

The below artists impression (courtesy of London 2012) gives a visitors eye view of the completed Olympic Park as it should look during the games.

Eight Things You Probably Didn’t
Know About the Olympic Games

This article first appeared in the August 2008 edition of our on-line magazine, HockeyTalk.

have won Silver at home – the Netherlands in 1928, Germany in 1936 and Great Britain in 1948, plus Korea who were runners up in the women’s tournament in Seoul in 1988. Your best odds are for a bronze, as happened to Belgium in 1920 and Australia in 2000. The US men won bronze in 1932 and their women in 1984, whilst both the men and women of the USSR took bronze in 1980, the year of the Olympic boycott.

7. Four Olympic hockey medal winning nations have seen massive changes to their boundaries which would either help or hinder their medal prospects. Germany was partitioned in 1945 at the end of WW2 and later became the FDR (West Germany) and the GDR (East Germany). Although Germany was reunified in 1990 its eastern borders were different to those pre-1945, losing a lot of territory to Poland. India was partitioned in 1947 at the end of colonial rule, when the separate state of Pakistan was formed. Pakistan itself was later reduced in size when a civil war between the east and west Pakistan resulted in the formation of Bangladesh in 1971. The words ‘Russia’ and ‘USSR’ used to be used almost synonymously but, of course, their boundaries are quite different. When the USSR was split up, most of the good hockey players were in the newly formed states, such as the Ukraine and Belarus. Czechoslovakia has only figured once in the hockey medals but has seen a huge change in its boundaries. Formed in 1918 after the collapse of the Hapsburg empire, in 1993 it split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia as a result of what became known as the ‘Velvet Divorce’.

8. With all the controversy over this year’s Olympic torch relay, most people would be surprised to discover where the relay has its origins. Far from having its roots in ancient Greece, the ceremony started in 1936 as part of that year’s Berlin Olympics, often dubbed the ’Nazi Olympics’. It was the brainchild of Dr Carl Diem, general secretary of the organising committee and a man who is said to have been an expert on ancient Egyptian hockey!

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