George Christopher Pinner (born 18 January 1987) is an English

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 plays as a goalkeeper for Old Georgians and from 2009 to 2021 played for the

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and

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national teams.

Personal life

In June 2012 he was one of seven GB hockey athletes to pose for the centerfold of Cosmopolitan magazine as part of a campaign to raise awareness of male cancers and the Everyman cancer charity. In 2017 Pinner married

hockey international

Jo Hunter Joanne Hunter (born 27 May 1991) is an English field hockey player who plays as a forward for Buckingham and the England and Great Britain national teams. In 2017 she married England hockey goalkeeper George Pinner. Club career Hunter play ...

Club career

Pinner plays club hockey in the

Men's England Hockey League The Men's England Hockey League is a field hockey league organized by England Hockey that features men's teams from England and Wales. Format Regular season There are 62 teams in the league, the top tier consists of a Premier Division of twelve t ...

Premier Division for Old Georgians. He has also played club hockey for

Ipswich Ipswich () is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England, of which it is the county town. The town is located in East Anglia about away from the mouth of the River Orwell and the North Sea. Ipswich is both on the Great Eastern Main Line r ...

, Beeston and

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. On 30 May 2019 it was announced that he was joining Old Georgians ahead of their first season in the

Premier Division.

International career

He made his senior international debut in 2009 against the

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and his tournament debut at the 2011 Champions Trophy. He was the reserve goalkeeper at the

2012 Olympic Games 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 won goalkeeper of the tournament at the 2016 Champions Trophy before heading off to Rio for his first Olympics as the first goalkeeper. On 4 November 2021 he announced his retirement from International Hockey

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pinner, George British male field hockey players Living people 1987 births Sportspeople from Ipswich Male field hockey goalkeepers Field hockey players at the 2012 Summer Olympics 2014 Men's Hockey World Cup players Field hockey players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup players Olympic field hockey players for Great Britain Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England Holcombe Hockey Club players Beeston Hockey Club players Men's England Hockey League players Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games