John Barrie Smythe (born August 31, 1989) is a Canadian

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 or midfielder for the Vancouver Hawks and the Canadian national team. His older brother

Iain Smythe Iain Smythe (born June 2, 1985) is a Canadian male field hockey player, who played for the Canada national field hockey team at the 2015 Pan American Games Fifteen or 15 may refer to: *15 (number), the natural number following 14 and preceding ...

also is a Canadian international field hockey player.

International career

Smythe represented Canada at the

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, where he played all four games. In June 2019, he was selected in the Canada squad for the

2019 Pan American Games The 2019 Pan American Games ( es, Juegos Panamericanos de 2019, links=no), officially the XVIII Pan American Games and commonly known as the Lima 2019 Pan-Am Games or Lima 2019 ( qu, Limaq 2019), were a multi-sport event governed by the Panam Spo ...

. They won the silver medal as they lost 5–2 to

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in the final. In June 2021, Smythe was named to Canada's 2020 Summer Olympics team.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Smythe, John 1989 births Living people Field hockey players from Vancouver Canadian male field hockey players Male field hockey midfielders Male field hockey defenders Field hockey players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup players Field hockey players at the 2019 Pan American Games Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada Pan American Games medalists in field hockey Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games Commonwealth Games competitors for Canada Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic field hockey players for Canada 20th-century Canadian sportspeople 21st-century Canadian sportspeople