Bobby Crutchley

Last updated

Bobby Crutchley
Personal information
NationalityEnglish
Born (1970-05-24) 24 May 1970 (age 53)
Wirral Peninsula, North West England
Sport
SportField Hockey
Club Neston
Hounslow
Canberra Lakers
Cannock
Cernusco, Milan
Team Bath Buccaneers
Medal record
field hockey
Representing Flag of England.svg  England
Commonwealth Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1998 Kuala Lumpur Team

Robert 'Bobby' Crutchley (born 24 May 1970 on the Wirral Peninsula) is a performance coach developer at British Gymnastics and former male English field hockey coach & player.

Contents

Hockey career

Crutchley represented England and Great Britain, winning 80 international caps. He played for England at the 1994 Men's Hockey World Cup and at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, where he won a bronze medal in the men's hockey. [1]

Coaching career

He was Assistant Coach for the England & Great Britain men's teams from 2005 to 2012 and Head Coach from 2013 to 2018. During this time he coached at 3 Olympic Games, 3 World Cups, 7 European Championships and 4 Commonwealth Games. [2] [3]

Gymnastics

He was appointed Performance Coach Developer at British Gymnastics in 2018. [4]

Related Research Articles

Russell Simon Garcia is an English field hockey coach and a former England & GB field hockey player. He won a gold medal with Great Britain at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul at the age of 18 years 3 months, making him Britain's youngest ever Olympic champion.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Barry Middleton</span> British field hockey player

Barry John Middleton is regarded as one of the greatest British field hockey players in history. He played as a midfielder and forward for England and Great Britain and is the most capped British hockey player in history and captained his country for many years.

Simon Daniel Edward Amor is an English rugby union coach and former player. Amor played in the scrum-half and fly-half positions for London Scottish and captained the England national rugby sevens team. He has been the head coach of London Scottish, England sevens, Hong Kong, and, as recently as 2020, was appointed defence-coach for the England rugby union team.

Mark Pearn is a male retired English field hockey player.

Mark William Hager is a retired Australian field hockey player, who competed in two Summer Olympics for his native country. After the fourth place in 1988 he won the bronze medal with The Kookaburras at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia where he was the captain.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">England women's national field hockey team</span> National sports team

The England women's national field hockey team are the current Commonwealth Games champions having previously won silver 3 times. England have also won the 2006 Women's Field Hockey World Cup Qualifier and the 2002 Champions Challenge.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Great Britain men's national field hockey team</span> Mens national field hockey team representing the UK

The Great Britain men's national field hockey team represents the United Kingdom in Olympic field hockey tournaments. The team won gold at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp and the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. The team won the 2017 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Louis Smith (gymnast)</span> British artistic gymnast

Louis Antoine Smith MBE is a retired British artistic gymnast.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">India women's national field hockey team</span> Womens field hockey team representing India

The Indian women's national field hockey team represents India in international field hockey, and is governed by Hockey India. Nabhvarna are currently ranked 6th in the FIH World Rankings, and are ranked as the best team in Asia. They have won the gold medals at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and 1982 Asian Games. They have also won the Women's Asia Cup twice, i.e. in 2004 and 2017. They also won the Asian Champions Trophy in 2016.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kate Richardson-Walsh</span> British field hockey player

Kate Louise Richardson-Walsh, is an Olympic Gold and Bronze Medal winning English field hockey player. She was capped a record 375 times for her country and was the England and Great Britain Captain for 13 years.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Max Whitlock</span> British artistic gymnast (born 1993)

Max Antony Whitlock is a British artistic gymnast. With fourteen medals and six titles in Olympic and world championships, Whitlock is the most successful gymnast in his nation's history, and the most successful pommel horse worker in gymnastics history; he has 8 global medals in the apparatus, including 5 global gold medals. He is a six-time Olympic medalist, winning three golds and three bronzes, and a five time world medalist on the pommel horse with three gold and two silvers.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Daniel Purvis</span>

Daniel Scott Purvis is a Scottish former international elite artistic gymnast, and three-time British all-around champion in men's artistic gymnastics. He trained at Southport YMCA and was coached by Jeff Brookes and Andrei Popov. He was part of the first British men's team to win a medal at a World Championships in 2015.

Danny Kerry MBE is an English international field hockey coach. He was the head coach for the England and Great Britain Men's teams from September 2018 until January 2022. He had previously been Head Coach for the England and Great Britain Women's teams from 2005 to 2012 and 2014 to 2018. During this tenure the national teams medalled at Commonwealth, European, World and Olympic level. Kerry was voted Team GB coach of the year in 2016 following the Rio Olympic Games, and awarded the Sam Musabini medal by UK Coaching.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nile Wilson</span> Former British artistic gymnast

Nile Michael Wilson is a former British artistic gymnast. He won an Olympic bronze medal in the men's horizontal bar at the 2016 Summer Olympics; he was a world medallist as a member of the silver-medal winning British team at the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, the first world men's team medal in British gymnastics history. A five-time Commonwealth Games champion, he won the all-around title in 2018, and is a former European horizontal bar champion, the first Briton to win the title. In January 2021, Wilson announced his retirement from competitive gymnastics due to injuries. In March 2023, he won the fifteenth series of Dancing on Ice with dance partner Olivia Smart.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Olympics</span> Sporting event delegation

Great Britain, or in full Great Britain and Northern Ireland, represented by the British Olympic Association (BOA), competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016 and the team of selected athletes was officially known as Team GB. British athletes have appeared in every Summer Olympic Games of the modern era, alongside Australia, France, Greece, and Switzerland, though Great Britain is the only country to have won at least one gold medal at all of them. The team represented the United Kingdom, the three Crown Dependencies, and the thirteen British Overseas Territories, ten of whom sent representatives.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Giarnni Regini-Moran</span> British artistic gymnast

Giarnni Regini-Moran is a British artistic gymnast representing Great Britain and England internationally. He is the 2022 world champion on floor exercise and the fourth British world champion in the sport of artistic gymnastics.

Ellie Watton is a retired English international field hockey player who played as a forward for England and Great Britain. She made her first international appearance against South Africa on 4 February 2013. She retired from international hockey after competing in the 2018 FIH World Cup in London and has now resumed her teaching career, taking up a position at Rugby School in August 2018. She continues to coach and inspire the next generation of young hockey players

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mark Gleghorne</span> Great Britain hockey international

Mark Gleghorne is a field hockey player from Northern Ireland who has represented Ireland, England and Great Britain at international level. He represented Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Gleghorne was a member of the England teams that won the bronze medals at the 2014 and 2018 Commonwealth Games and at the 2017 Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship. He also represented England at the 2014 and 2018 Men's Hockey World Cups. At club level, Gleghorne was a member of the Instonians team that won the Irish Senior Cup in both 2002 and 2004. He was also a member of the Punjab Warriors team that won the 2016 Hockey India League title. Gleghorne is a member of a family of field hockey internationals. His younger brother, Paul, is an Ireland international. Two of his aunts, Margaret Gleghorne and Jackie McWilliams, were also Ireland and Great Britain women's internationals.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Courtney Tulloch</span> British artistic gymnast

Courtney James Matthew Winston Tulloch is a currently active English international artistic gymnast, representing Great Britain and England since 2012, and is a specialist in still rings and vault.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Joe Fraser</span> British artistic gymnast

Joe Fraser is an English artistic gymnast. He is the 2022 European all-around and parallel bars champion and the 2019 world champion on the parallel bars, the first British gymnast to ever win gold in any of these events. As a member of the British Senior team since 2017, he has also won team gold and silver, and bronze on the pommel horse, in the European Artistic Gymnastic Championships. Representing England in the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Fraser won three gold medals in team, pommel horse and parallel bars.

References

  1. "1998 Athletes". Team England.
  2. "Meet the hockey squads heading to Rio 2016!". Team GB. 28 June 2016. Archived from the original on 5 August 2016. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
  3. "Bobby Crutchley quits England Hockey men's coaching role". The Hockey Paper.
  4. "Bobby Crutchley appointed Performance Coach Developer". British Gymnastics.