China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
. Sixteen players were officially enrolled in each squad.XXIXth Olympic Games Tournament Regulations - Men's and Women's Hockey Competitions /ref> Two reserve players could also be nominated to be available should a player enrolled in the official squad become injured during the tournament. Official squad lists were released by the FIH on 24 July 2008.
Pool A
Belgium
The following is the Belgian roster in the men's field hockey tournament of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Head Coach: Adam Commens
# Cédric de Greve ( GK)
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Xavier Reckinger
Xavier Reckinger (born 20 December 1983) is a Belgian international field hockey player and coach of the Germany women's national field hockey team.
He played for Braxgata in Boom and is a defender. Before he played with the KHC Dragons. At the ...
Jérôme Dekeyser
Jérôme Dekeyser (born 15 December 1983) is a Belgian international field hockey player for Braxgata in Antwerp who is usually plays as an attacker.
At the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed for the national team in the men's tournament ...
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Loïc Vandeweghe
Loïc Vandeweghe (born 23 September 1983) is a Belgian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beiji ...
John-John Dohmen
John-John Dominique Dohmen (born 24 January 1988) is a Belgian professional field hockey player who plays for Orée and the Belgium national team as a midfielder.
Biography
John-John Dohmen was born in Anderlecht in 1988, and spent his youth i ...
Cédric Charlier
Cédric Daniel André Charlier (born 27 November 1987) is a Belgian field hockey player who plays as a forward for Racing Club de Bruxelles and the Belgian national team.
Club career
Charlier started playing hockey at Uccle and played there un ...
Philippe Goldberg
Philippe Goldberg (born 10 May 1979) is a Belgian former field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beij ...
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Gregory Gucassoff
Gregory Gucassoff (born 20 April 1985) is a Belgian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2 ...
Jérôme Truyens
Jérôme Truyens (born 4 August 1987) is a Belgian international field hockey player. He plays for Royal Racing Club de Bruxelles in Brussels and is an attacker.
Jérôme Truyens is part of the national team that reached the 2008 Summer Olympics ...
The following is the Chinese roster in the men's field hockey tournament of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Head Coach:
Kim Sang-Ryul
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* Kim (surname)
** Kim (Korean surname)
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** Kim, Vietnamese ...
The following is the German roster in the men's field hockey tournament of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Head Coach:
Markus Weise
Markus Weise (born 19 December 1962 in Mannheim) is a German field hockey coach. Since 6 November 2006, he has been Head Coach of the Germany national field hockey team. Previous to this role, he was the coach of the Germany women's national fie ...
Maximilian Müller
Maximilian Müller (born 11 July 1987) is a field hockey player from Germany. Born in Nuremberg, he was a member of the men's national teams that won the gold medal at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympic ...
Moritz Fürste
Moritz Fürste (born 28 October 1984) is a German field hockey player. He was a member of the Men's National Team that won the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics as well as at the 2006 World Cup. He played at the ...
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Tobias Hauke
2018 FIH Indoor Hockey World Cup players
Tobias Constantin Hauke (born 11 September 1987) is a German field hockey player who plays as a defender for Harvestehude.
In 2007, he completed his '' Abitur'' at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums in ...
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Tibor Weißenborn
Tibor Weißenborn (born 20 March 1981 in West Berlin) is a field hockey player from Germany, who was a member of the Men's National Team that won the bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Ol ...
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Benjamin Weß
Benjamin Weß (also spelled Wess; born 28 July 1985 in Moers) is a field hockey player from Germany and the younger brother of Timo Weß. He was a member of the Men's National Team that won the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2 ...
Timo Weß
Timo Weß (born 2 July 1982) is a field hockey player from Germany, who was a member of the Men's National Team that won the bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, and gold at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. He was born in ...
Matthias Witthaus
Matthias Witthaus (born 11 October 1982 in Oberhausen) is a field hockey player from Germany, who was a member of the Men's National Team that won the bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece and the gold medal at the 2008 Sum ...
Christian Schulte
Christian Schulte (born 7 August 1975) is a German field hockey goalkeeper who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics and in the 2008 Summer Olympics
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The following is the New Zealand roster in the men's field hockey tournament of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Head Coach:
Shane McLeod
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McLeod grew up in Hervey Bay and studied journalism at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. He commenced his career at ...
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David Kosoof
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Kosoof lives in Red Beach on the Hibiscus Co ...
Blair Hopping
Blair Robert Hopping (born 12 August 1980 in Pukekohe) is a field hockey player from New Zealand, who earned his first cap for the national team, nicknamed ''The Black Sticks'', in 2000 against Pakistan. He competed for New Zealand at the 200 ...
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Dean Couzins
Dean Warren Couzins (born 9 June 1981 in Christchurch) is a field hockey player from New Zealand, who earned his first cap for the national team, nicknamed ''The Black Sticks'', in 2001 against Malaysia. The defender played the latter part of 20 ...
Ryan Archibald
Ryan Jeffrey Archibald (born 1 September 1980) is a field hockey player from New Zealand, who earned his first cap for the national team, nicknamed ''The Black Sticks'', in 1997 against Malaysia. Currently he is a player for Somerville Hockey C ...
Kyle Pontifex
Kyle Marshall Pontifex (born 5 February 1980 in Wellington) is a New Zealand professional field hockey player. He plays as a goalkeeper. He earned his first cap for the New Zealand national team, nicknamed ''The Black Sticks'', in 2001 against M ...
Hayden Shaw
Hayden Jonathan Shaw (born 31 August 1980) is a field hockey player from New Zealand.
Shaw was born in Christchurch. He earned his first cap for the national team, nicknamed ''The Black Sticks'', in 2002 against Australia. Shaw was often invol ...
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James Nation
James Henry Nation (born 23 September 1976, in Waipukurau) is a field hockey player from New Zealand who earned his first cap for the national team, nicknamed ''The Black Sticks'', in 2001 against Malaysia. The midfielder provides support at centr ...
The following is the South Korean roster in the men's field hockey tournament of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Head Coach:
Cho Myung-jun
Cho Myung-jun (born July 29, 1970) is a South Korean field hockey
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Ko Dong-sik
Ko Dong-sik (born 25 December 1973) is a South Korean field hockey player who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics and in the 2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as ...
Kim Chul
Kim Chul (born 11 July 1980) is a South Korean field hockey player who competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an inte ...
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Kim Yong-bae
Kim Yong-bae (born 4 February 1974) is a South Korean former field hockey player who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics, in the 2000 Summer Olympics, in the 2004 Summer Olympics, and in the 2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Sum ...
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Lee Nam-yong
Lee Nam-yong (born 28 September 1983) is a South Korean field hockey player who competed in the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an int ...
You Hyo-sik
You Hyo-Sik (born 13 April 1982) is a South Korean field hockey player who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics, the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX O ...
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Yeo Woon-kon
Yeo Woon-kon (born 4 September 1974) is a field hockey player from South Korea, who was a member of the Men's National Team that won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. In the final the South Koreans were beaten by the Dutch ...
Lee Myung-ho
Lee Myung-ho (born 10 December 1979) is a South Korean field hockey player who competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics
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The following is the Spanish roster in the men's field hockey tournament of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Head Coach:
Maurits Hendriks
Maurits Gijsbreght Hendriks (born 1 January 1961 in Amsterdam) is a field hockey coach from the Netherlands, who himself played as a goalkeeper
In many team sports which involve scoring goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, net ...
Santi Freixa
Santiago "Santi" Freixa i Escudé (born 13 February 1983) is a Spanish field hockey coach and former player who played for the Spain national team as a forward.
In November 2015, Freixa received the Athletes in Excellence Award from The Foundat ...
Víctor Sojo
Víctor Manuel Sojo Jiménez (born November 24, 1983, in Puente Genil, Córdoba) is a field hockey striker from Spain. He finished in fourth position with the Men's National Team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, and won the silver ...
Pablo Amat
Pablo "Pol" Amat Escudé (born 18 June 1978 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) is a Spanish retired field hockey player, who played as a striker. In 2008 he was awarded World Hockey Player of the Year, becoming the first Spaniard to win the award ...
Ramón Alegre
Ramón Alegre Biosca (born 14 May 1981 in Barcelona, Catalonia) is a field hockey defender from Spain. He finished in fourth position with the Men's National Team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
After having played for Laren ...
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Xavier Ribas
Xavier Ribas Centelles (born 16 February 1976) is a field hockey defender from Spain. He represented the Men's National Team at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000
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Rodrigo Garza
Rodrigo Garza Barbero (born 3 December 1979 in Madrid) is a retired field hockey defender/midfielder from Spain. He represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000.
Club career
After the Athens Games (200 ...
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Sergi Enrique
Sergi Enrique Montserrat (born 22 September 1987) is a Spanish field hockey player who plays as a defender for Atlètic Terrassa and the Spain national team.
Club career
Enrique has played for Atletic Terrassa and Junior in Spain and Royal Da ...
Franc Dinares
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Xavier Castillano
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The following is the Australian roster in the men's field hockey tournament of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Head Coach: Barry Dancer
# Jamie Dwyer
# Liam de Young
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Eddie Ockenden
Edward "Eddie" Clyve Ockenden (born 3 April 1987) is an Australian field hockey player. He plays in the midfielder and striker positions. He turned professional in 2008 and has played for teams in the Netherlands. He plays club hockey, having c ...
Kiel Brown
Kiel Brown (born May 1984) is an Australian field hockey player. He earned a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics and a gold medal at the 2011 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy.
Personal
Brown was born in May 1984 in Toowoomba, Queensland. He ...
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Fergus Kavanagh
Fergus Kavanagh (born 21 May 1985) is an Australian field hockey player. He plays Western Australia in the Australian Hockey League. He is a member of the Australia men's national field hockey team, winning a bronze medal with the team at the 2 ...
Scott Tupper
Scott William Martin Tupper (born December 16, 1986) is a Canadian former male field hockey player who played as a defender.
Club career
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Tupper first started playing with the Vancouver Hawks Field Hockey Club ...
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Marian Schole
Marian Schole (born January 21, 1986, in Berlin, Germany) is a male field hockey player, who played for the Canada national field hockey team. He was a member of the Berliner Hockey Club.
International senior competitions
* 2006 — World ...
Scott Sandison
Scott Sandison (born February 14, 1979 in Toronto, Ontario) is a field hockey midfielder from Canada. He was a member of the Canadian team that finished tenth at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
International senior competitions
* 2002 — Commonwe ...
The following is the British roster in the men's field hockey tournament of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Head Coach: Jason Lee
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Alistair McGregor
Alistair McGregor (born 11 June 1981 in Aberdeen) is a male field hockey goalkeeper from Scotland, who earned his first cap for the Men's National Team in 2001. He plays club hockey for Loughborough Students' Men's Hockey Club. McGregor was named ...
Glenn Kirkham
Glenn Charles W. Kirkham (born 8 October 1982) is an English field hockey player who played for the English and British national team.
Hockey
Kirkham made his international senior debut for the national squad in January 2002 in a match again ...
Richard Mantell
Richard Mantell (born 17 August 1981) is an English field hockey defender. He is the older brother of Simon Mantell.
Mantell made his international debut on 10 February 2003. He was a member of the England squad that competed at the 2006 ...
Stephen Dick
Stephen Dick (born 21 June 1985 in Kirkcaldy) is a Scottish field hockey player who plays as a forward. He is 6'1".
Competing for Scotland and Great Britain at numerous tournaments, he is representing Great Britain in Field hockey at the 2008 S ...
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Matt Daly
Matthew "Matt" Daly (born 8 July 1983) is an English field hockey player.
Daly made his international debut in 2005. He competed for England and Great Britain at numerous tournaments, including the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics.
Daly was born ...
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Jonty Clarke
Jonathan "Jonty" Clarke (born in Essex) is an English field hockey player who plays as a forward.
Competing for England and Great Britain at numerous tournaments, he represented Great Britain in Field hockey at the 2008 Summer Olympics and at ...
Ben Hawes
Benjamin Robert Hawes (born 28 July 1980) is a former English field hockey player, a 3x Olympian who played for the English and the British national team in midfield or as a halfback.
Hawes competed for England and Great Britain at numerous ...
Jon Bleby
Jon Bleby (born 11 September 1979) in Torquay is a former international field hockey player who played as a defender for England and Great Britain.
He represented Great Britain in Field hockey at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He had 54 caps rep ...
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Ben Marsden
Benjamin Marsden (born 16 October 1979 in Blackpool, Lancashire) is an English field hockey player who plays as a half back.
Competing for England and Great Britain at numerous tournaments, he is representing Great Britain in Field hockey at t ...
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Niall Stott
Niall Craig Stott (born 6 February 1981) is a Scottish field hockey player who was a member of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland squad that finished ninth at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He was born in Dundee.
The midfielder/attacke ...
The following is the Dutch roster in the men's field hockey tournament of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Head Coach:
Roelant Oltmans
Roelant Wouter Oltmans (born May 25, 1954) is a Dutch field hockey coach who is the current head coach of Kampong first men's team. Earlier he coached the Larensche Mixed Hockey Club men's team. He coached the Netherlands men's, India men's, Pa ...
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Guus Vogels
Augustinus ("Guus") Wilhelmus Johannes Marines Vogels (born March 26, 1975 in Naaldwijk, South Holland) is a Dutch field hockey goalkeeper, who twice won Olympic gold medals with the national squad: at the 1996 Summer Olymp ...
Thomas Boerma
Thomas Boerma (born May 7, 1981 in Laren) is a field hockey player from the Netherlands.Sander van der Weide
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Ronald Brouwer
Ronald Leendert Brouwer (born 24 April 1979 in Hellevoetsluis, South Holland) is a field hockey striker from the Netherlands, who won the silver medal with the Dutch national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He is the cousin of Matthi ...
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Roderick Weusthof
Roderick Weusthof (born 18 May 1982 in Nijmegen) is a field hockey player from the Netherlands.
Weusthof was part of the Dutch national team for the 2004 Champions Trophy in Lahore where the Dutch won the silver medal. In 2005 in Chennai they ...
Laurence Docherty
Laurence Docherty (born 24 February 1980 in Edinburgh) is a Dutch field hockey player of Scottish origin.
He came to the Netherlands in 2000, and played club hockey for HC Klein Zwitserland until the 2007–8 season, when he moved to rival club ...
Rob Reckers
Rob Reckers (born 29 August 1981 in Eindhoven, North Brabant) is a field hockey player from the Netherlands, who won the silver medal with the Dutch national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens
Athens ( ; el, Αθήν ...
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Matthijs Brouwer
Matthijs Christian Brouwer (born 1 July 1980 in Raamsdonk, North Brabant) is a field hockey player from the Netherlands, who won the silver medal with the Dutch national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. The striker made his debut on 2 ...
Timme Hoyng
Timme Fred Philip Hoyng (born 7 August 1976) is a Dutch former field hockey player who played as a midfielder or forward.
Hoyng played a total of 138 matches for the Dutch national team from 2000 until 2009 in which he scored 12 goals. He was a ...
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Robert van der Horst
Robert Adriaan van der Horst (; born 17 October 1984) is a Dutch former field hockey player who played as a defender and currently the assistant coach of the first men's team of Oranje-Rood.
He played a total of 272 caps for the Dutch nationa ...
The following is the Pakistani roster in the men's field hockey tournament of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Head Coach: Naveed Alam
# Salman Akbar ( GK)
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Zeeshan Ashraf
Zeeshan Ashraf Qasmi (born 28 February 1977 in Quetta, Pakistan) is a field hockey full back. He made his international debut for Pakistan in 2001, and competed in the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
Career
He served as Captain of the Paki ...
Adnan Maqsood
Adnan Maqsood (born 12 January 1979) is a Pakistani field hockey player. He competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beiji ...
Waqas Akbar
Waqas Akbar (born 26 November 1988) is a Pakistani field hockey player. He competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an internatio ...
Rehan Butt
Rehan Butt (Urdu: ریحان بٹ) is a former Pakistani professional field hockey player who played as a forward for the Pakistan national field hockey team. A world renowned player known for his play-making skills and shooting in-front of the go ...
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Syed Abbas Haider Bilgrami
Syed Abbas Haider Bilgrami (born 26 October 1989) is a Pakistani hockey player who participated in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China
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Syed Imran Ali Warsi
Syed Imran Ali Warsi (born 5 June 1985) is a Pakistani field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing ...
Shabbir Ahmed Khan Shabbir is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
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Ian Symons
Ian Symons (born 14 May 1980) is a South African former field hockey player who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics and in the 2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as ...
Darryn Gallagher
Darryn Gallagher (born 24 April 1977) is a South African field hockey player who competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics
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Clyde Abrahams
Clyde Abrahams (born 15 October 1978) is a South African field hockey player who competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics.
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Marvin Bam
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Geoffrey Abbott
Geoffrey Grant Abbott (born 17 April 1985) is a South African field hockey player who competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an ...
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Thornton McDade
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Chris Hibbert
Chris Hibbert (born 29 April 1976) is a South African former field hockey player who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known a ...
squads
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2008
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