Graham Reid (sportsman)

Olympic medal record
Men's Field Hockey
Representing  Australia
Olympic Games
1992 Barcelona Team Competition
World Cup
1990 Lahore Team
Champions Trophy
1984 Karachi Team
1985 Perth Team
1989 Berlin Team
1990 Melbourne Team
1986 Karachi Team
1992 Lahore Team
1987 Amstelveen Team
1988 Lahore Team

Graham Reid (born 9 April 1964 in Redcliffe, Queensland) is a former field hockey defender and midfielder from Australia, who was a member of the team that won the silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.[1] Afterwards he played club hockey for the Dutch top team Amsterdam for two seasons (1993, 1994)[2] returning in 1995 to play the Europa cup.

Reid played 130 internationals for Australia including two Olympic Games (1988, 1992),[1] one World Cup (1990) and nine Champions Trophys (1984, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, and 92). He has also won the Olympians medal (WA Best and Fairest medal) 3 times (1995, 96, and 98) whilst playing for Victoria Park Panthers.[3]

He was also an inaugural member of the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) hockey unit in Perth, Western Australia in 1984[4] and despite stints back in Queensland and Amsterdam has remained in Perth, where he lives with his wife Julia and two children, Scott and Emma.

In 2009, he was appointed assistant coach of the Australian Men's Hockey Team (Kookaburras).[5] During this time he was given the opportunity to take on the Head Coach position for the Champions Trophy in Melbourne in 2012. He guided the team to their 5th consecutive Champions Trophy gold medal.[6] In October 2013 he was given another opportunity to lead the Kookaburras at the Oceania Cup in Stratford, New Zealand. Here the Kookaburras won the Oceania Cup by defeating New Zealand 5 - 2 in the final and qualified for the 2014 World Cup in Den Haag. .[7]

In 2014[8] he and Paul Gaudoin co-coached the Kookaburras to a Gold Medal at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. In September 2014[9] he was announced as the head coach of the Kookaburras following the retirement of Ric Charlesworth.

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