Matthew Wells (field hockey)
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Matthew Wells OAM (born 2 May 1978 in Hobart, Tasmania) is a field hockey defender from Australia, who was a member of the team that won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens by beating title holders The Netherlands in the final. Four years earlier, when Sydney hosted the Summer Games, he finished in third spot with The Kookaburras, as the Men's National Team is called. He had to miss the 2006 Men's Hockey World Cup due to injury.
External links
[edit]- Matthew Wells at Olympedia
- Matthew Wells at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
- Matthew Wells at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games (archived)
- Profile on Hockey Australia
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Categories:
- 1978 births
- Australian male field hockey players
- Olympic field hockey players for Australia
- Male field hockey defenders
- Olympic gold medalists for Australia
- Olympic bronze medalists for Australia
- Field hockey players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- 2002 Men's Hockey World Cup players
- Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Field hockey players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
- Sportspeople from Hobart
- Living people
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey
- Olympic medalists in field hockey
- Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Sportsmen from Tasmania
- Australian field hockey biography stubs