Michael Gene Brennan
OAM (born 15 October 1975 in
Toowoomba, Queensland
Toowoomba ( , nicknamed 'The Garden City' and 'T-Bar') is a city in the Toowoomba Region of the Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia. It is west of Queensland's capital city Brisbane by road. The urban population of Toowoomba as of the 2021 C ...
) is a
field hockey
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midfielder from Australia, who was a member of the team that won gold at the
2004 Summer Olympics
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in
Athens
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. Four years earlier, when Sydney hosted the
Summer Games, he finished in third spot with ''The
Kookaburras
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'', as the men's national team is called. Michael Brennan has since gone on to become a multiple Group 1 winning horse trainer.
References
Profile on Hockey Australia
External links
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Living people
1975 births
Australian male field hockey players
Male field hockey midfielders
Olympic field hockey players for Australia
Olympic gold medalists for Australia
Olympic bronze medalists for Australia
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Field hockey players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
Field hockey players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
1998 Men's Hockey World Cup players
Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
People educated at Trinity College, Perth
Sportspeople from Toowoomba
Sportsmen from Queensland
Field hockey people from Queensland
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