Anthony John Robinson
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| Born |
22 July 1925 Nuwara Eliya, Central Province, Ceylon | |||||||||||||
| Died |
24 July 1982 (aged 57) Long Sutton, England | |||||||||||||
| Senior career | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | |||||||||||||
| 1949–1951 | Worcester | |||||||||||||
| 1952–1952 | Taunton Vale | |||||||||||||
| 1951–1961 | West Of England Wanderers | |||||||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Caps | Goals | |||||||||||
| Great Britain | ||||||||||||||
| England | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Anthony John Backhouse Robinson (born 22 July 1925 – 24 July 1982) was a field hockey player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics and 1956 Summer Olympics.[1]
Biography
Robinson was educated at Marlborough School and came from a hockey family, with his two uncles Lawrence Robinson and John Yate Robinson both playing hockey.[2]
Robinson joined the Royal Navy and in 1947 gained his first county hockey cap for Leicestershire before switching to Worcestershire and then Somerset (the latter whom he captained).[2] He played club hockey for Worcester Hockey Club and then West Of England Wanderers.[3]
He made his England debut against Wales at Bournemouth in 1950.[2] He subsequently represented Great Britain in the field hockey tournament at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki and won the bronze medal.[4]
In 1954 he captained Great Britain in an international tournament in Belgium and two years later he represented the Great Britain team again in the field hockey tournament at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne.[5][6] He was vice-captain of a England team that toured South Africa and Kenya in 1958.[2]
Later he taught at Millfield school.[2]
References
- ^ "Profile". sports-reference.com.
- ^ a b c d e "Biographical Information". Olympedia. Retrieved 17 July 2025.
- ^ "Midlands Hockey". Nottingham Evening Post. 30 January 1950. Retrieved 17 July 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "British Hockey changes". Nottingham Evening Post. 22 July 1952. Retrieved 17 July 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Welsh trio in Olympics Hockey XI". Western Mail. 30 May 1956. Retrieved 17 July 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Olympic Hockey Players". Central Somerset Gazette. 6 April 1956. Retrieved 17 July 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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