Fergus Kavanagh

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Fergus Kavanagh
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Kavanagh in 2014
Personal information
Born 21 May 1985 (1985-05-21) (age 38)
Dublin, Ireland
Medal record
Men's field hockey
Representing Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Olympic Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2008 Beijing Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2012 London Team
World Cup
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2010 Delhi Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2014 The Hague Team
Champions Trophy
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2008 Rotterdam Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2009 Melbourne Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2010 Monchengladbach Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2011 Auckland Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2012 Melbourne Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2014 Bhubaneswar Team
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2010 Delhi Team

Fergus Kavanagh (born 21 May 1985) is an Australian field hockey player. He plays Western Australia in the Australian Hockey League. He is a member of the Australia men's national field hockey team, winning a bronze medal with the team at the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics. [1] He won a gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. [2]

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Personal

Kavanagh was born in Dublin, Ireland and moved to Western Australia when he was four. [2] [3] He took up playing hockey in primary school [2] and attended Nagle Catholic College in Geraldton. [4]

Field hockey

Kavanagh represents Western Australia in national competitions. In 2010, he was a member of the Western Australian state team that competed in the Australian Hockey League. In a June 2010 game against the South Australian Southern Hotshots, he scored a goal. [5] He played in a June 2010 game for Western Australia against the NT Stingers that Western Australia won 4–1. He scored a goal in the game. [6] He played for the team in the first found of the 2011 season. [7]

Kavanagh is a member of the Australia men's national field hockey team. In January 2008, he was a member of the senior national team that competed at the Five Nations men's hockey tournament in South Africa. [8] He represented Australia at the 2008 Summer Olympics, playing in the Australia's 6–1 victory over Canada. [9] His team won a bronze medal at the 2008 Games. [10] New national team coach Ric Charlesworth named him, a returning member, alongside fourteen total new players who had few than 10 national team caps to the squad before in April 2009 in a bid to ready the team for the 2010 Commonwealth Games. [11] In 2009, he was a member of the national team during a five-game test series in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia against Malaysia. [12] He was a member of the 2009 Hockey Champions Trophy winning team, playing in the gold medal match against Germany that Australia won by a score of 5–3. [13] In 2010, he represented Australia at the Commonwealth Games, and played in the game against Pakistan during the group stage. He was the Kookaburras captain during the Games. The Pakistan match was his 100th international cap for Australia. [14] [15] Australia won a gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. [16] In May 2011, he played in the Azlan Shah Cup for Australia. The Cup featured teams from Pakistan, Malaysia, India, South Korea, Britain and New Zealand. [17] In December 2011, he was named as one of twenty-eight players to be on the 2012 Summer Olympics Australian men's national training squad. This squad was narrowed in June 2012. He trained with the team from 18 January to mid-March in Perth, Western Australia. [18] [19] [20] In February during the training camp, he played in a four nations test series with the teams being the Kookaburras, Australia A Squad, the Netherlands and Argentina. [3]

He was named on the Australian Olympic team, which proceeded to win the bronze medal again. [1]

Coaching

In October 2010, Kavanagh ran a hockey clinic in Hobart, Tasmania. [15]

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