Troy Elder
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Medal record | ||
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Representing Australia | ||
Men's field hockey | ||
Olympic Games | ||
2004 Athens | Team | |
2000 Sydney | Team | |
World Cup | ||
2002 Kuala Lumpur | Team | |
2006 Mönchengladbach | Team | |
Champions Trophy | ||
1999 Brisbane | Team | |
2001 Rotterdam | Team | |
2003 Amstelveen | Team | |
1998 Lahore | Team |
Troy Elder OAM[1] (born 15 October 1977 in Bunbury, Western Australia) is a field hockey striker and midfielder from Australia, who was a member of the Men's National Team that won the golden medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Four years earlier, when Sydney hosted the Olympic Games, Elder finished in third spot with The Kookaburras, as the national team is called.
Elder originated from Bundaberg, Queensland, where he played for the All Blacks Hockey Club. Nicknamed Woody, Elder shot into limelight as a player with the National Junior Squad, that won the Hockey Junior World Cup at Milton Keynes in 1997 against India. After the 1998 Australian Hockey League season with the Queensland Blades, Elder got into the senior National Squad at the 1998 Champions Trophy in Lahore, where Australia won the bronze. He was part of the winning team in the 1999 Champions Trophy at Brisbane.
Just like his countrymen Jay Stacy and Michael Brennan, Elder moved to the Netherlands, where he played club hockey for Eindhoven's Oranje Zwart, with whom he won the Dutch title in the spring of 2005. The price was high, because during the Dutch play-offs he neglected the call from Australia's Head Coach Barry Dancer to come over for a training session with the men's National Team. He therefore had to miss the 2005 Champions Trophy in Chennai and the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.
Having retired from international hockey, Elder played club hockey for United Hockey in Brisbane for some time whilst still representing the Queensland Blades. A plumber by profession, he is fond of surfing and fishing.
References[]
- ^ "Mickelberg lawyer humbled by Australia Day award". ABC News (Australia). Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 26 January 2005. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
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- 1977 births
- Olympic field hockey players of Australia
- Australian male field hockey players
- Male field hockey forwards
- Male field hockey midfielders
- Field hockey players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- 2002 Men's Hockey World Cup players
- Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- 2006 Men's Hockey World Cup players
- Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
- People from Bunbury, Western Australia
- Field hockey people from Western Australia
- Living people
- Olympic gold medalists for Australia
- Olympic bronze medalists for Australia
- Olympic medalists in field hockey
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Oranje Zwart players
- Australian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
- Expatriate field hockey players
- Field hockey players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games