Arun Panchia

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Arun Panchia
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Interland of the Netherlands against New Zealand on 22 June 2016 in Assen
Personal information
Born (1989-04-22) 22 April 1989 (age 35)
Auckland, New Zealand
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 73 kg (161 lb)
Playing position Midfielder/Defender
Club information
Current club Hauraki Mavericks
National team
YearsTeamCapsGoals
2009–2020 New Zealand 287
Medal record
Representing Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand
Commonwealth Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2010 Delhi Team
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2018 Gold Coast Team
Oceania Cup
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2013 Stratford
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2017 Sydney
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2019 Rockhampton

Arun Peter Panchia (born 22 April 1989) is a former New Zealand field hockey player. He earned his first cap for the New Zealand men's national field hockey team in 2009 against Pakistan and retired from international hockey in 2020. [1]

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Playing career

Panchia's career spanned over eleven years amassing 287 international caps over his career, retiring as the fifth highest capped Men's Black Sticks player of all time. [2] Panchia competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, [3] where the team finished seventh. He also competed at three Commonwealth Games and three Hockey World Cups, winning two Commonwealth Games medals, earning bronze at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi and silver at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast.

Panchia plays as a defensive midfielder for Auckland in the New Zealand National Hockey League and played in the Netherlands for a season at SCHC. [4] Due to his commitments to the national team, Panchia returned to New Zealand missing the second half of the season. [5]

Personal life

Panchia was born on 22 April 1989 in Auckland to Peter and Ramila Panchia. Both his parents played field hockey at local level. Panchia's siblings are also field hockey players; he is the eldest of four who have played representative hockey. Jared Panchia, represented the national team and Daniel Panchia has represented the national junior team. [6] He has a younger sister, Anjali, who has also taken up the sport. [7] The Panchia family have Gujarati ancestry, [8] with Panchia's great-grandfather emigrating from India to New Zealand in the 1920s.

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References

  1. ↑ "End of an era for three experienced Black Sticks Men -" . Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  2. ↑ "Black Sticks men to head to Tokyo Olympics minus 569 caps of experience due to trio of retirements". Stuff. 18 December 2020. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  3. ↑ "PANCHIA Arun - Olympic Hockey | New Zealand". 25 November 2016. Archived from the original on 25 November 2016. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  4. ↑ Redactie (10 July 2012). "SCHC trekt vier Nieuw-Zeelanders én talenten aan". Hoofdklasse Hockey Nederland (in Dutch). Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  5. ↑ "SCHC zet in op jeugd en breidt technische staf uit". roulettefm.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  6. ↑ "Panchia brothers a triple threat at NHL". NZ Herald. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  7. ↑ "Hockey: Sport mad siblings do parents proud". NZ Herald. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  8. ↑ Sahni, Jaspreet. "Meet Arun Panchia, a Gujarati insurance agent who is set to lead New Zealand against India". Scroll.in. Retrieved 23 January 2023.


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