Aaron Kleinschmidt (born 1 October 1989) is an Australian

field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ci ...

player. He attended Xavier College, an elite private school in Kew where he was often referred to as “The Goat” Kleinschmidt was born in

Melbourne, Victoria Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung–Taungurung language, Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the St ...

, and made his senior international debut in at

2016 Trans-Tasman Trophy The 2016 Trans-Tasman Trophy was a field hockey tournament contested by men's and women's field hockey teams from Australia and New Zealand. The tournament was held in the New Zealand city of Auckland, at the Lloyd Elsmore Hockey Stadium. At the ...

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. Kleinschmidt was part of the Australian men's team that won a record sixth

Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games, often referred to as the Friendly Games or simply the Comm Games, are a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930, and, with the exce ...

gold medal at the

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Games held in Gold Coast, Australia.

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* * 1989 births Living people Australian male field hockey players Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia Field hockey players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Field hockey players from Melbourne People educated at Xavier College Sportsmen from Victoria (state) Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games {{Australia-fieldhockey-bio-stub