Harry John Martin (born 23 October 1992) 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 midfielder for

HC Rotterdam Hockey Club Rotterdam, commonly known as Rotterdam is a Dutch field hockey club based in Rotterdam, South Holland. It was founded on 16 September 1925. The first men's team competes on the highest level of the Dutch field hockey league, which is c ...

and the

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and

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national teams. His sister,

Hannah Martin Hannah Martin is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera '' Neighbours'', played by Rebecca Ritters. She made her first on-screen appearance on 20 July 1992. Hannah is the only child of Philip and Julie Martin and the younger sist ...

is an English

player who plays as a midfielder or forward for

and

Club career

For the 2021–22 season he returns to play club hockey in the Dutch Hoofdklasse for

, for whom he enjoyed a successful 2016–17 season. He had been playing 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 Hampstead & Westminster. Prior to that, he won the

Premier Division title in consecutive seasons with

Beeston Hockey Club Beeston Hockey Club is a field hockey club based in Beeston, England. The club was founded in 1907, and plays its home games at the Nottingham Hockey Centre in Nottingham. Beeston is nicknamed ''the Bees''. The men's 1st XI plays in the Men's ...

International career

Martin made his senior debut, aged 17, for

on 12 July 2010. One year later, On 1 December 2012, he made his senior tournament debut for

in a 3–1 defeat against

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, in the 2012 Champions Trophy, in

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, Australia. He was the first player who has been involved in England Hockey's Single System (long term athlete development pathway) to be selected for an Olympic Games. He played in the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, the 2011 & 2012 Champions Trophy. At the

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, he competed for

in the

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. He was also shortlisted for the FIH World Young Player of the Year Award in 2012. On 28 May 2021, he was selected in the England squad for the 2021 EuroHockey Championship.

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* 1992 births Living people Sportspeople from Ipswich English male field hockey players British male field hockey players Male field hockey midfielders 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 2020 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup players Olympic field hockey players of Great Britain Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England Expatriate field hockey players English expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Beeston Hockey Club players Hampstead & Westminster Hockey Club players HC Rotterdam players Men's Hoofdklasse Hockey players Men's England Hockey League players 2023 Men's FIH Hockey World Cup players Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games {{England-fieldhockey-bio-stub