Brent James Livermore OAM (born 5 July 1976 in Grafton, New South Wales) is a

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 ...

midfielder from Australia. He was first selected in the Australian team in 1997, and was awarded the Kookaburras player of the year award in 2001. He was also nominated of the

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in 2002 and 2005. He has played over 300 matches for the Australian team, and has scored 30 international goals. He plays for the NSW Waratahs in the Australian Hockey League. Brent Livermore won the gold medal with the Kooraburras at the 2004 Olympics, but was omitted from the 2008 Olympic squad that placed third in Beijing. In the

World Series Hockey World Series Hockey (WSH) was a professional league for field hockey competition in India. It was organised by Indian Hockey Federation and Nimbus Sports with the objective to reinvigorate hockey in India. It was contested among eight franchise ...

organized by the

Indian Hockey Federation The Indian Hockey Federation was the Indian branch of the International Hockey Federation. Background It was the apex governing body of field hockey in India. It was formed on 7 November 1925 in Gwalior. It was the first non-European team to ...

and Nimbus Sport, Brent Livermore captains the

Chennai Cheetahs Chennai Cheetahs (CCH) is a field hockey team based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, that plays in World Series Hockey. It is owned by Chennai Sports Organisers Private Limited (CSO). The team is captained by the Australian Brent Livermore and co ...

, a Chennai-based Hockey team. After a brief hiatus from the sport, Livermore returned to coach the NSWIS male team, the U21 NSW Men's team, and the NSW Waratahs team at their respective tournaments. He has returned to the pitch, as the captain-coach of team NSWIS at the ripe age of 42, in the exhibition match against Odisha. The team lost the first match 5–1.

International tournaments

* 1997 – Champions Trophy, Adelaide (2nd place) * 1998 –

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, Kuala Lumpur (1st place) * 1998 – Champions Trophy, Lahore (3rd place) * 1999 – Champions Trophy, Brisbane (1st place) * 2000 – Champions Trophy, Amstelveen (5th place) * 2000 –

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, Sydney (3rd place) * 2001 – Champions Trophy, Rotterdam (2nd place) * 2002 –

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, Kuala Lumpur (2nd place) * 2002 –

, Manchester (1st place) * 2002 – Champions Trophy, Cologne (5th place) * 2003 – Champions Trophy, Amstelveen (2nd place) * 2004 –

, Athens (1st place) * 2005 – Champions Trophy, Chennai (1st place) * 2006 –

, Melbourne (1st place) * 2006 – Champions Trophy, Terrassa (4th place) * 2006 –

, Mönchengladbach (2nd place) * 2007 – Champions Trophy, Kuala Lumpur (2nd place) * 2009 – Champions Trophy, Kuala Lumpur (1st place) * 2018 – 2018 ODISHA XI vs NSWIS XI - Exhibition Tournament, Odisha (2nd place)

References

External links

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Brent Livermore Official Page

Profile on Hockey Australia
{{DEFAULTSORT:Livermore, Brent 1976 births Australian male field hockey players Male field hockey midfielders Field hockey players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Field hockey players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games 2002 Men's Hockey World Cup players Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games 2006 Men's Hockey World Cup players Living people Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia Olympic field hockey players of Australia Olympic gold medalists for Australia Olympic bronze medalists for Australia Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia Olympic medalists in field hockey World Series Hockey players Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey People from Grafton, New South Wales Sportsmen from New South Wales