Grant Schubert ( OAM) (born 1 August 1980 in

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) is a

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striker from Australia, who won the gold medal with the Men's National Team at the

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. He was named ''World Hockey Young Player of the Year'' by the

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(FIH) in December 2003. Schubert now lives in Western Australia. Schubert was honoured as the most promising player at the 2003 Champions Trophy with nine goals in six matches. Earlier that year, on 9 July, he made his debut for ''The Kookaburras'' in a friendly match against Germany in

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. He played club hockey in The Netherlands after the Athens Games, first for

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, and after the relegation for

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. He had to miss the 2006 Men's Hockey World Cup due to a knee injury. He also missed the

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semi-final and bronze medal play-off matches due to a knee injury sustained in the last minor round game vs Great Britain.Schubert out with knee injury
/ref> In 2006, Schubert represented Australia at the Azlan Shah tournament in Malaysia. He competed in the 2007 Champions Trophy competition for Australia. In January 2008, he was a member of the senior national team that competed at the Five Nations men's hockey tournament in South Africa. He represented Australia at the

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, playing in the team's 6-1 victory over Canada and scoring the team's third goal. New national team coach

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named him, a returning member, alongside fourteen total new players who had few than 10 national team caps to the squad before in April 2009 in a bid to ready the team for the

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. In 2009, Schubert was a member of the national team during a five-game test series in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia against Malaysia. He was a member of the 2009 Champions Trophy winning team, playing in the gold medal match against Germany that Australia won by a score of 5-3. In 2011, he had an Achilles tendon injury, which led to him to being removed from the Kookaburras squad for a while. In December 2011, he was named as one of fourteen players to be on the

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Australian men's national Olympic development squad. While this squad is not in the top twenty-eight and separate from the Olympic training coach, the Australian coach

did not rule out selecting from only the training squad, with players from the Olympic development having a chance at possibly being called up to represent Australia at the Olympics. He trained with the team from 18 January to mid-March in

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International tournaments

* 2003 – Champions Trophy, Amstelveen (2nd place) * 2004 –

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, Athens (1st place) * 2005 – Champions Trophy, Chennai (1st place) * 2005 – RaboTrophy, Amsterdam (2nd place) * 2006 –

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, Melbourne (1st place) * 2006 – Champions Trophy, Terrassa (4th place) * 2007 – Champions Trophy, Kuala Lumpur (2nd place) * 2008 –

, Beijing (3rd place) * 2008 – Champions Trophy, Rotterdam (1st place) * 2009 – Champions Trophy, Melbourne (1st place) * 2010 - FIH World Cup, New Delhi (1st place)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Schubert, Grant 1980 births Living people Australian male field hockey players Olympic field hockey players for Australia Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia Olympic gold medalists for Australia Olympic bronze medalists for Australia People from Loxton, South Australia Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia Field hockey players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Olympic medalists in field hockey Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey SV Kampong players HC Klein Zwitserland players 2010 Men's Hockey World Cup players Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Sportsmen from South Australia