Craig Parnham

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Craig Parnham
Personal information
Born 13 July 1973 (1973-07-13) (age 52)
Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England
Height 180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 80 kg (176 lb)
Senior career
YearsTeam
1988–1991 Bridgnorth
1991-1996 Stourport
1996–2004 Cannock
National team
YearsTeamCaps
2000–2004 GB 64
2001-2004 England 51
Medal record
Men's field hockey
Representing Flag of England.svg  England
European Championship
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2003 Barcelona Team

Craig Daniel Parnham (born 13 July 1973 [1] in ) is an English field hockey defender and coach. He represented Great Britain in two Summer Olympics in 2000 and 2004.

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Biography

Parnham played club hockey for Cannock in the Men's England Hockey League after being signed from Stourport Hockey Club in 1996. He made his debut for Great Britain in 2000, [2] shortly before being included in the team for the 2000 Summer Olympics. [1] [3]

The following year he made his debut for England, [4] where he was appointed captain. [1]

He sustained a serious throat injury in August 2001, when he was caught in the throat by a flying stick while playing for England against Pakistan in Malaysia. Parnham was put into intensive care and surgeons considered a tracheotomy before deciding that an operation was required on his larynx. [1] [5] [4]

Still at Cannock, he represented England at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester [6] [7] and at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Parnham represented Great Britain for his second Olympics. [2] [8] In total, Parnham won 64 caps for Great Britain and 51 for England.

He is now a coach, and has taken the Great Britain women's team to the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games. In January 2013 he was appointed head coach of the USA Women's National Team, [9] a position he held until the end of 2016. [10]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "BBC Sport Academy – How Seoul success spurred GB star". BBC . Retrieved 29 July 2012.
  2. 1 2 "Biographical Information". Olympedia. Retrieved 25 May 2025.
  3. ↑ "Hockey: Great Britain's Olympic squad" . The Scotsman. 20 July 2000. Retrieved 29 May 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. 1 2 "Craig Parnham". University of Wolverhampton. Archived from the original on 25 July 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
  5. ↑ "Parnham in injury scare" . Shropshire Star. 7 August 2001. Retrieved 26 May 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ↑ "Experienced hockey squad for Games". Bolton News. 8 August 2002. Retrieved 26 May 2025.
  7. ↑ "Parnham in latest squad" . Shropshire Star. 21 June 2002. Retrieved 26 May 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
  8. ↑ "GB name hockey squad". BBC Sport. 17 July 2004. Retrieved 25 May 2025.
  9. ↑
  10. ↑ "Parnham leaves position as head coach of US women's hockey team". inside the Games. 11 October 2016. Retrieved 25 May 2025.
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