Daniel Hunter (born 23 January 1990) is a British volleyball player and coach. Born in Poole, Dorset, England, he competed for Great Britain in the men's tournament at the 2012 Summer Olympics. [1] [2]
Hunter began playing volleyball as an after school activity. He played club volleyball with Wessex, where he made his international debut in 2009. [3] Prior to his selection in Great Britain's 2012 Olympic Squad, Hunter played professional volleyball in Holland with Landstede Zwolle. [4]
Following his playing career, Hunter returned to former club Wessex and started coaching their women's Super League team. [5]
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Great Britain and Northern Ireland, represented by the British Olympic Association (BOA), competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, from 27 July to 12 August 2012 as the host nation and the team of selected athletes was officially known as Team GB. British athletes have competed at every Summer Olympic Games in the modern era, alongside Australia, France and Greece, though Great Britain is the only one to have won at least one gold medal at all of them. London was the first city to host the Summer Olympics on three different occasions, having previously done so in 1908 and 1948. It was joined by Paris in 2024 and will be joined by Los Angeles in 2028 in hosting the Olympic Games for a third time. Team GB, organised by BOA, sent a total of 541 athletes, 279 men and 262 women, to the Games, and won automatic qualification places in all 26 sports.
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