Dean Butler OAM (born 26 January 1977 in

Warwick, Queensland Warwick ( ) is a town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in southeast Queensland, Australia, lying south-west of Brisbane. It is the administrative centre of the Southern Downs Region Local government in Australia, local governme ...

) 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 ...

defender from Australia, who was a member of the team that won the gold medal at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...

. He is

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d ''Butts'', and played club hockey for the Queensland Blades in his native country, with whom he won the national title in 2003. Butler was promoted to the senior squad following the

1998 Men's Hockey World Cup The 1998 Men's Hockey World Cup was the ninth edition of the Men's Hockey World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's national field hockey teams organized by the International Hockey Federation. It was held alongside the women's to ...

. In 2001 he was named ''Player of the Year'' in Queensland.

References

Profile on Hockey Australia

External links

* 1977 births Australian male field hockey players Olympic field hockey players for Australia Male field hockey defenders Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics 2002 Men's Hockey World Cup players 2006 Men's Hockey World Cup players Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia People from Warwick, Queensland Living people Olympic gold medalists for Australia Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia Field hockey players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Olympic medalists in field hockey Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Sportsmen from Queensland {{Australia-fieldhockey-bio-stub