Andrew Griffiths

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Medal record
Competitor for  Canada
Men’s Field Hockey
Pan American Games
Silver	Havana 1991	Team
Silver	Mar del Plata 1995	Team
Gold	Winnipeg 1999	Team

Andrew Griffiths (born January 11, 1969 in Sheffield, England) is a former field hockey forward from Canada, who started playing hockey at age eight in Bermuda.

Griffiths represented England Under 16 before moving to Canada and joining the Senior Team of the North Americans. Grifiths scored the now famous winning goal against South Africa in the 1997 World Cup Qualifying tournament: Canada came back from a 0-4 deficit to win the game 5-4 in the last seconds and the striker ended up sitting on the cross-bar. The resident of Toronto, Ontario created the Planet Field Hockey-website, originally called Off The Crossbar, together with teammates Alan Brahmst and Hari Kant.

[edit] International Senior Competitions

• 1989 – World Cup Qualifier, Madison, USA (2nd)
• 1990 – World Cup, Lahore (11th)
• 1991 – Pan American Games, Havana (2nd)
• 1991 – Olympic Qualifier, Auckland (6th)
• 1993 – World Cup Qualifier, Poznan (7th)
• 1995 – Pan American Games, Mar del Plata (2nd)
• 1996 – Olympic Qualifier, Barcelona (6th)
• 1996 – World Cup Preliminary, Sardinia (2nd)
• 1997 – World Cup Qualifier, Kuala Lumpur (5th)
• 1998 – World Cup, Utrecht (8th)
• 1999 – Sultan Azlan Shah Cup, Kuala Lumpur (4th)
• 1999 – Pan American Games, Winnipeg (1st)
• 2000 – Sultan Azlan Shah Cup, Kuala Lumpur (7th)
• 2000 – Americas Cup, Cuba (2nd)
• 2000 – Olympic Games, Sydney (10th)

[edit] References

• Profile

[edit] External links

• Planet Field Hockey