Jacob Benjamin Draper (born 24 July 1998) is a Welsh

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 defender for Dutch Hoofdklasse club Pinoké and the

Wales Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the Wales–England border, east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the ...

and

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national teams.

Club career

Draper will play for Belgian club Beerschot in the 2021–22 season. He has been playing 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 Hampstead & Westminster. Prior to that he played for Cardiff & Met.

International career

Draper made his senior debut, aged 18, for

on 28 August 2016, in a 5–1 win over Austria in

Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

. He played for

Hockey at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Field hockey at the 2018 Commonwealth Games was held on the Gold Coast, Australia from 5 to 14 April. The hockey competition was held at the Gold Coast Hockey Centre. This is the sixth time that the hockey competition was held, following the ...

in Gold Coast and

2019 Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship The 2019 Men's EuroHockey Championship was the 17th edition of the EuroHockey Nations Championship, the biennial international men's field hockey championship of Europe organised by the European Hockey Federation. It was held alongside the women' ...

, where they finished 6th.

References

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Great Britain Hockey Field hockey in Great Britain is governed by Great Britain Hockey. The organisation focuses on international competition only. Governance GB Hockey administers the National Men's and Women's hockey teams for both Great Britain and the home nati ...

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Hockey Wales Hockey Wales ( cy, Hoci Cymru) is the national governing body for hockey in Wales. Established as the Welsh Hockey Union in 1996, by the merger of the Welsh Hockey Association (founded 1896) and the Welsh Women's Hockey Association (founded 1897 ...

* * * * * * 1998 births Living people Sportspeople from Cwmbran Welsh male field hockey players British male field hockey players Male field hockey defenders Hampstead & Westminster Hockey Club players Men's England Hockey League players Olympic field hockey players for Great Britain Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games competitors for Wales Field hockey players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Field hockey players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Royal Beerschot THC players Men's Belgian Hockey League players 2023 Men's FIH Hockey World Cup players Pinoké players {{England-fieldhockey-bio-stub