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Australia men's national field hockey team

Australia men's national field hockey team

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The Australia men's national field hockey team (nicknamed the Kookaburras) is one of the nation's most successful top-level sporting teams. They are the only Australian team in any sport to receive medals at six straight Summer Olympic Games (1992–2012). The Kookaburras placed in the top four in every Olympics between 1980 and 2012; in 2016, the Kookaburras placed sixth.[3] They also won the Hockey World Cup in 1986, 2010 and 2014.

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The Kookaburras' inability to win an Olympic gold medal despite their perennial competitiveness, led many in the Australian hockey community to speak of a "curse" afflicting the team,[4] finally broken in 2004 with the win in Athens. However, they failed to win Gold after that after losses in subsequent Olympics including a loss to Belgium in the Gold Medal Match of 2020 Tokyo Olympics - the Kookaburras instead won the silver medal.[5]

History

Australia's first men's team competed in an international match in 1922.[6]

The first major competition won by the national team was the 1983 World Championships held in Karachi.[7]

Participations

Australia's first men's team competed at the Olympics in field hockey at the 1956 Summer Olympics.[7]

Australia did not medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics[8] or the 1988 Summer Olympics.[9] At the 1992 Summer Olympics, Australia earned a silver medal, losing gold to Germany.[10] At the 1996 Summer Olympics, Australia finished third, earning a bronze medal.[11]

The team won their first Olympic gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Barry Dancer coached the side.[12]

Should Australia win the gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics they will become the first national team in field hockey history to hold all four international titles available to them simultaneously. They would hold titles in the 2012 Olympics, 2010 World Cup, 2011 Champions Trophy and their continental championship (2011 Oceania Cup) at the same time. Along with those four titles Australia also holds the Commonwealth Games title from the 2010 championships.

Tournament records

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^Australia and New Zealand originally withdrew from matches due to the COVID-19 global pandemic and subsequent international restrictions on travel.[19] In the lead up to the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympic games, Australia and New Zealand played two matches as part of the 2020-21 Pro League[20] in Perth.

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Team

Current squad

The following 24 players were named in the Kookaburras squad for the India Leg of the FIH Pro League in Bhubaneswar and Rourkela, from 11–25 February.[23][24]

Head coach: Colin Batch

All caps and goals current as of 22 February 2024, following the match against Ireland.

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The remainder of the 2023 national squad is as follows:[25]

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Recent call-ups

The following players have received call-ups to the national team in the last twelve months.

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Notable players

Results

2024 Fixtures & Results

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FIH Pro League (Leg 1)

11 February 2024 India Leg Spain  3–4  Australia Bhubaneswar, India
17:30 Miralles field hockey ball 29'
N. Álvarez field hockey ball 36'
Cabré-Verdiell field hockey ball 37'
Report Sharp field hockey ball 8', 52'
Whetton field hockey ball 19'
Govers field hockey ball 25'
Stadium: Kalinga Hockey Stadium
13 February 2024 India Leg Australia  5–0  Ireland Bhubaneswar, India
17:30 Craig field hockey ball 17'
Hayward field hockey ball 22'
Willott field hockey ball 25', 57'
Ephraums field hockey ball 43'
Report Stadium: Kalinga Hockey Stadium
15 February 2024 India Leg India  4–6  Australia Bhubaneswar, India
19:30 Harmanpreet field hockey ball 12', 20'
Sukhjeet field hockey ball 18'
Mandeep field hockey ball 29'
Report Govers field hockey ball 2', 2'
Zalewski field hockey ball 40'
Sharp field hockey ball 52'
Anderson field hockey ball 55'
Welch field hockey ball 58'
Stadium: Kalinga Hockey Stadium
16 February 2024 India Leg Netherlands  4–5  Australia Bhubaneswar, India
17:30 Telgenkamp field hockey ball 6'
Bijen field hockey ball 12', 22'
Janssen field hockey ball 56'
Report Govers field hockey ball 33', 53'
Hayward field hockey ball 40', 48'
Brand field hockey ball 60'
Stadium: Kalinga Hockey Stadium
21 February 2024 India Leg Spain  1–4  Australia Rourkela, India
17:30 Amat field hockey ball 2' Report Ogilvie field hockey ball 4'
Ephraums field hockey ball 8'
Hayward field hockey ball 25'
Brand field hockey ball 44'
Stadium: Birsa Munda International Hockey Stadium
22 February 2024 India Leg Ireland  1–4  Australia Rourkela, India
17:30 O'Donoghue field hockey ball 44' Report Govers field hockey ball 33', 52'
Ephraums field hockey ball 40'
Welch field hockey ball 56'
Stadium: Birsa Munda International Hockey Stadium
24 February 2024 India Leg India  2–2
(0–3 p)
 Australia Rourkela, India
19:30 Report Stadium: Birsa Munda International Hockey Stadium

International Festival of Hockey

6 April 2024 Match 1 Australia  5–1  India Perth, Australia
16:40 Report Stadium: Perth Hockey Stadium
7 April 2024 Match 2 Australia  4–2  India Perth, Australia
16:40 Report Stadium: Perth Hockey Stadium
10 April 2024 Match 3 Australia  2–1  India Perth, Australia
17:40 Report Stadium: Perth Hockey Stadium
12 April 2024 Match 4 Australia  3–1  India Perth, Australia
17:40 Report Stadium: Perth Hockey Stadium
13 April 2024 Match 5 Australia  3–2  India Perth, Australia
16:40 Report Stadium: Perth Hockey Stadium

FIH Pro League (Leg 2)

XXXIII Olympic Games

2 August 2024 Pool B Australia  v  India Paris, France
13:15 Report Stadium: Stade Yves-du-Manoir

Family

Barry Dancer/Brent Dancer and Ric Charlesworth/Jonathan Charlesworth are two pairs of father as coach and son as player while both were affiliated with the national team in those positions.[12][26]

Recognition


References

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  2. "History of Hockey in Australia". Retrieved 22 February 2022.
  3. ABC (15 August 2016). "Rio 2016: Australia's Kookaburras and Sharks knocked out of men's hockey and water polo". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  4. "Kookaburras ready to toss the monkey". The Sydney Morning Herald. 26 August 2004. Archived from the original on 27 July 2009. Retrieved 14 June 2012.
  5. Epstein, Jackie (21 October 2009). "Dwyer breaks free of Holland binds – Australia always comes first". Herald Sun. Melbourne, Australia. p. 76. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
  6. Department of Sport, Recreation and Tourism; Australian Sport Commission (1985). Australian Sport, a profile. Canberra, Australia: Australian Government Publish Service. pp. 177–178. ISBN 0644036672.
  7. Dorling Kindersley Limited. (1999). The Olympic Games. St. Leonards, N.S.W.: Dorling Kindersley. p. 320. ISBN 1864660635. OCLC 57337092.
  8. Dorling Kindersley Limited. (1999). The Olympic Games. St. Leonards, N.S.W.: Dorling Kindersley. p. 327. ISBN 1864660635. OCLC 57337092.
  9. Dorling Kindersley Limited. (1999). The Olympic Games. St. Leonards, N.S.W.: Dorling Kindersley. p. 335. ISBN 1864660635. OCLC 57337092.
  10. Dorling Kindersley Limited. (1999). The Olympic Games. St. Leonards, N.S.W.: Dorling Kindersley. p. 343. ISBN 1864660635. OCLC 57337092.
  11. Petrie, Andrea (18 October 2009). "Sons a chip off the old stick – HOCKEY". The Sunday Age. Melbourne, Australia. p. 19. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
  12. "Oceania Cup". Hockey Australia. Archived from the original on 11 January 2017. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  13. "Team Details – Australia". tms.fih.ch. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
  14. Department of Sport, Recreation and Tourism; Australian Sport Commission (1985). Australian Sport, a profile. Canberra, Australia: Australian Government Publish Service. p. 116. ISBN 0644036672.
  15. "Australian Sports Awards". Confederation of Australian Sport. Archived from the original on 8 February 2015. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
  16. "Rabbitohs, Fearnley, Fox win top ASPAS". Australian Sports Commission News, 11 February 2015. Archived from the original on 11 February 2015. Retrieved 11 February 2015.

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