Stephen Batchelor (field hockey)

Steve Batchelor
Personal information
Born (1961-06-22) 22 June 1961
Beare Green, Surrey, England
Height 180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 79 kg (174 lb)
Senior career
Years Team
1979–1982 Hounslow
1982–1990 Southgate
1992–1993 East Grinstead
1995–1996 Richmond
National team
Years Team Caps Goals
Great Britain
England
Medal record
Men's field hockey
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1988 Seoul Team competition
Bronze medal – third place 1984 Los Angeles Team competition
Champions Trophy
Silver medal – second place 1985 Perth Team competition
Representing  England
World Cup
Silver medal – second place 1986 London Team competition
European Championship
Silver medal – second place 1987 Moscow Team
Bronze medal – third place 1991 Paris Team

Stephen James Batchelor (born 22 June 1961) is an English former field hockey player who competed at three Olymic Games and won a gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics.[1]

Biography

Batchelor was born in Beare Green, Surrey[1] and educated at Millfield School. He started playing club hockey for Hounslow Hockey Club in the Men's England Hockey League.[2]

After signing for Southgate Hockey Club,[3] he was selected to represent Great Britain the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles,[4] where he won a bronze medal in the field hockey tournament.[5] He was part of the silver medal winning Great Britain team that competed at the 1985 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy in Perth, Australia.[6]

Batchelor won silver with the England squad at the 1986 Hockey World Cup[7] before winning gold at his second Olympics in Seoul in 1988. During the hockey tournament, Batchelor set up Imran Sherwani in the final against West Germany.[8]

Still at Southgate, Batchelor represented England at the 1990 Men's Hockey World Cup[9] but shortly afterwards in August 1990, signed to play for East Grinstead Hockey Club.[10]

While at East Grinstead, he represented Great Britain at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, which was his third Olympics.[1][11][12]

Batchelor had played international hockey for twelve years before retiring after the 1992 Olympics, although he did go on to become player coach at Richmond Hockey Club.[13]

He is head of admissions at Cranleigh School, and coaches the U14 boys and girls hockey teams. He lives in Cranleigh and has four children with his wife Jackie.

References

  1. ^ a b c "Biographical Information". Olympedia. Retrieved 15 June 2025.
  2. ^ "Hockey". Bristol Evening Post. 12 April 1980. Retrieved 20 June 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ^ "National Representation". Southgate Hockey Club. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  4. ^ "Results". Sandwell Evening Mail. 2 July 1984. Retrieved 20 June 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Steve Batchelor". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  6. ^ "Champions Trophy". Sikhs in Hockey. Retrieved 24 July 2025.
  7. ^ "Remembering the boys of 86". Sports Journalists' Association. 17 October 2006. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  8. ^ "Olympic cloud". Birmingham Weekly Mercury. 2 October 1988. Retrieved 19 June 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. ^ "Hockey World Cup". Birmingham News. 3 November 1989. Retrieved 15 June 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  10. ^ "Sportsfile". Sunday Express. 12 August 1990. Retrieved 19 June 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  11. ^ "Youth and experience in GB hockey squad". Dundee Courier. 6 May 1992. Retrieved 15 June 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  12. ^ "Olympic Games: Hockey: Hill's double helps quell British tension". The Independent. ESI Media. 27 July 1992. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  13. ^ "Reading ace aims to keep his place". Reading Evening Post. 31 January 1996. Retrieved 19 June 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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