Christopher George Wesley (born 23 June 1987) is a German former
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 who played as a midfielder or forward. At the
2012 Summer Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...
, he competed for the
national team
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The term is most commonly associated with team sports, for exam ...
in the
men's tournament.
Career
Wesley played his whole career for
Nürnberger HTC in the
German Bundesliga
The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of the German football league system, the Bundesliga is Germany's primary footbal ...
. He played a total of 162 matches for the national team from 2005 until 2016 in which he scored 28 goals. In April 2020 he announced his retirement from top-level hockey.
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1987 births
Living people
German male field hockey players
Male field hockey midfielders
Male field hockey forwards
Field hockey players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
2014 Men's Hockey World Cup players
Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic field hockey players for Germany
Olympic gold medalists for Germany
Olympic bronze medalists for Germany
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Nuremberg
21st-century German people
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