Aaron Hopkins
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Aaron Hopkins (born 12 September 1979 in Busselton, Western Australia) is a field hockey defender from Australia. He narrowly missed selection in Australia's Olympic Games squads in both 2004 and 2008.[1] He did, however, win two gold medals for Australia at the 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games.[2][3]
International Tournaments
- 2001 – Champions Trophy, Rotterdam (2nd)
- 2002 – World Cup, Kuala Lumpur (2nd)
- 2002 – Commonwealth Games, Manchester (1st)
- 2003 – Champions Trophy, Amstelveen (2nd)
- 2005 – Champions Trophy, Chennai (1st)
- 2006 – Commonwealth Games, Melbourne (1st)
- 2012 – IHL,
- 2013 – Aaron has been recognised as the leading hockey goal scorer for an Australian hockey player, Melbourne (1st)
- 2015 – [[Aaron despite Hundreds of Thousands of votes from around Australia in the first ever sportsperson petition has hung up the boots on playing for Australia. Having offers from both the Indian IPL League and the Netherlands Super Cup Aaron has decided to stay in Canberra and pursue his life long dream of 100 first grade goals at the local Canberra level. Aaron will be sorely missed by all. A true National Hero.]]
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