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Born | Beare Green, Surrey, England | 22 June 1961|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 79 kg (174 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Senior career | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1979–1982 | Hounslow | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1982–1990 | Southgate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1992–1993 | East Grinstead | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1995–1996 | Richmond | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Stephen James Batchelor (born 22 June 1961) is an English former field hockey player who competed at three Olymic Games and won a gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics. [1]
Batchelor was born in Beare Green, Surrey [1] and educated at Millfield School. He started playing club hockey for Hounslow Hockey Club in the Men's England Hockey League. [2]
After signing for Southgate Hockey Club, [3] he was selected to represent Great Britain the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, [4] where he won a bronze medal in the field hockey tournament. [5] He was part of the silver medal winning Great Britain team that competed at the 1985 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy in Perth, Australia. [6]
Batchelor won silver with the England squad at the 1986 Hockey World Cup [7] before winning gold at his second Olympics in Seoul in 1988. During the hockey tournament, Batchelor set up Imran Sherwani in the final against West Germany. [8]
Still at Southgate, Batchelor represented England at the 1990 Men's Hockey World Cup [9] but shortly afterwards in August 1990, signed to play for East Grinstead Hockey Club. [10]
While at East Grinstead, he represented Great Britain at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, which was his third Olympics. [1] [11] [12]
Batchelor had played international hockey for twelve years before retiring after the 1992 Olympics, although he did go on to become player coach at Richmond Hockey Club. [13]
He is head of admissions at Cranleigh School, and coaches the U14 boys and girls hockey teams.[ when? ] He lives in Cranleigh and has four children with his wife Jackie.