Olympic medalist | ||
Grant Schubert |
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Medal record | ||
Men’s Field Hockey | ||
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Competitor for Australia | ||
Olympic Games | ||
Gold | 2004 Athens | Team |
Bronze | 2008 Beijing | Team |
Champions Trophy | ||
Silver | 2003 Amstelveen | Team |
Gold | 2005 Chennai | Team |
Silver | 2007 Kuala Lumpur | Team |
Gold | 2008 Rotterdam | Team |
Gold | 2009 Melbourne | Team |
Commonwealth Games | ||
Gold | 2006 Melbourne | Team |
World Cup | ||
Gold | 2010 New Delhi | Team |
Grant Schubert OAM (born 1 August 1980 in Loxton, South Australia) is a field hockey striker from Australia, who won the gold medal with the Men's National Team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.[1] He was named World Hockey Young Player of the Year by the International Hockey Federation (FIH) in December 2003.[2]
Schubert was honoured as the most promising player at the 2003 Champions Trophy with nine goals in six matches.[3] Earlier that year, on 9 July, he made his debut for The Kookaburras in a friendly match against Germany in Neuss. He played club hockey in The Netherlands after the Athens Games, first for Kampong in Utrecht, and after the relegation for HC Klein Zwitserland in The Hague. He had to miss the 2006 Men's Hockey World Cup due to a knee injury.[4] He also missed the 2008 Olympic Games semi-final and bronze medal play-off matches due to a knee injury sustained in the last minor round game vs Great Britain.[5]
Awards | ||
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Preceded by Jamie Dwyer |
WorldHockey Young Player of the Year 2003 |
Succeeded by Santi Freixa |