Jon Potter

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Jon Potter
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Potter in 2003
Personal information
Full name Jonathan Nicholas Mark Potter
Born (1963-11-19) 19 November 1963 (age 60)
Paddington, London, England
Medal record
Men's field hockey
Representing Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1988 Seoul Team competition
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1984 Los Angeles Team competition
Representing Flag of England.svg  England
Hockey World Cup
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1986 London Team competition

Jonathan Nicholas Mark Potter (born 19 November 1963) is the managing director of the House of Suntory and Maison Courvoisier at Beam Suntory. He is a former field hockey player who was a member of the gold-winning Great Britain squad at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.

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Background

Potter was born in Paddington, Greater London, in an Anglo-Indian family and brought up in Slough, England. [1] [2] He attended Burnham Grammar School from 1976 to 1982, and represented Slough and Buckinghamshire Schools at soccer, the South of England Schoolboys, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire Minor Counties at cricket, as well as England Schoolboys at field hockey.[ citation needed ]

Potter graduated from Southampton University in 1986 with a BA (Hons) in geography, and attended Aston Business School (1986–87) to obtain his MBA. [2]

Field hockey career

Jon Potter went on to represent Great Britain and England at the highest levels in field hockey. He has competed in three Olympic Games, winning bronze in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and, four years later, gold at the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul. [3] [4]

In total Potter won 126 caps for Great Britain and 108 caps for England, scoring 41 international goals. He competed in 3 World Cups, winning a silver medal at the Hockey World Cup in 1986 in London, and in three European Cups, winning silver in Moscow (1987) and bronze in Paris (1991). He also captured two Champions Trophy medals with Great Britain – bronze in Karachi (1984) and silver in Perth (1985).[ citation needed ]

He played club hockey with Hounslow Hockey Club, where he helped the men's 1XI win the European Cup Winners Cup in 1990 and won the HA Cup four times as well as the National League title twice. [5]

He retired from international hockey in 1995 and was a board member of England Hockey Ltd from 2003 to 2007.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. ↑ "When Anglo-Indians were kings in hockey". The Asian Age. 17 February 2012. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
  2. 1 2 "Jon Potter". www.teamgb.com. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  3. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jon Potter". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 26 May 2012.
  4. ↑ "Remembering the boys of 86 – Sports Journalists' Association". sportsjournalists.co.uk. 17 October 2006. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
  5. ↑ "Hounslow & Ealing Hockey Club : Club History". hounslow.uklinux.net. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
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