Ian Charles Boucher Taylor (born 24 September 1954) is a former
England
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field hockey
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goalkeeper. He is also the chief executive of SkillsActive, and also became CEO of London Irish Holdings, improving the on and off field activities of the
Rugby Club
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Canadian football and, to a lesser extent, American football were once considered forms of rugby football, but are seldom now referred to as such. The ...
.
He was a member of the gold winning
Great Britain
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squad in the
1988
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Summer Olympics in Seoul, during which he was a teacher at
Bromsgrove School
Bromsgrove School is a co-educational independent day and boarding school in the Worcestershire town of Bromsgrove, England. Founded in 1553, it is one of the oldest public schools in Britain, and one of the 14 founding members of the Headmaste ...
. Four years earlier he won Bronze at the
1984
Events
January
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Summer Olympics in
Los Angeles
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. He also won silver with the
England
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squad at the
1986
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Events January
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**Spain and Portugal ente ...
Hockey World Cup. In the
European Cup
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with the England squad he won silver in 1987 and bronze in 1978.
Taylor has held a number of honorary roles within sports administration including Minister’s nominee on the
Sports Council
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(with a UK remit), director of the GB
ice hockey
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Board and a director of the
British Olympic Association
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. He was also a commentator for
BBC Sport
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between 1988-1996. He was previously the chief executive for
sportscotland
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, following the departure of Ian Robson in July 2004. He was also the short lived CEO of the Greyhound Board of Great Britain but resigned over a policy introduced under his tenure that saw the pooling of samples.
Taylor was born in
Bromsgrove
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, England, and was a student at Borough Road College,
Isleworth
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, London. He returned to the college on several occasions to lecture and coach hockey. He has played club hockey for
East Grinstead Hockey Club
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.
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1954 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Bromsgrove
English male field hockey players
English Olympic medallists
Olympic field hockey players for Great Britain
Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain
Field hockey players at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Sport in Scotland
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
People in greyhound racing
East Grinstead Hockey Club players