Australian field hockey player
Troy Elder OAM [ 1] Bunbury, Western Australia ) is a field hockey striker and midfielder from Australia, who was a member of the Men's National Team that won the golden medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens . Four years earlier, when Sydney hosted the Olympic Games , Elder finished in third spot with The Kookaburras, as the national team is called.
Elder originated from Bundaberg, Queensland , where he played for the All Blacks Hockey Club. Nicknamed Woody , Elder shot into limelight as a player with the National Junior Squad, that won the Hockey Junior World Cup at Milton Keynes in 1997 against India. After the 1998 Australian Hockey League season with the Queensland Blades , Elder got into the senior National Squad at the 1998 Champions Trophy in Lahore , where Australia won the bronze. He was part of the winning team in the 1999 Champions Trophy at Brisbane .
Just like his countrymen Jay Stacy and Michael Brennan , Elder moved to the Netherlands, where he played club hockey for Eindhoven 's Oranje Zwart , with whom he won the Dutch title in the spring of 2005. The price was high, because during the Dutch play-offs he neglected the call from Australia's Head Coach Barry Dancer to come over for a training session with the men's National Team. He therefore had to miss the 2005 Champions Trophy in Chennai and the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne .
Having retired from international hockey, Elder played club hockey for United Hockey in Brisbane for some time whilst still representing the Queensland Blades. A plumber by profession, he is fond of surfing and fishing.
International goals
No.
Date
Venue
Opponent
Score
Result
Competition
1.
2 November 1998
Lahore , Pakistan South Korea 1 –11–1
1998 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy
2.
3 November 1998
Pakistan 4 –34–4
3.
13 June 1999
Brisbane , Australia Spain 2 –02–0
1999 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy
4.
14 June 1999
Netherlands 1 –02–1
5.
18 June 1999
Pakistan 1 –01–2
6.
20 June 1999
South Korea 2 –03–1
7.
28 May 2000
Amstelveen , Netherlands Spain 1 –11–1
2000 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy
8.
30 May 2000
Great Britain 1 –03–3
9.
2 –0
10.
30 September 2000
Sydney , AustraliaPakistan 1 –06–3
2000 Summer Olympics
11.
2 –1
12.
5 –2
13.
2 August 2001
Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia Pakistan 3 –15–3
2001 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
14.
4 –1
15.
4 August 2001
Germany 1 –12–6
16.
2 –4
17.
7 August 2001
India 3 –23–2
18.
10 August 2001
Malaysia 3 –17–1
19.
4 –1
20.
7 –1
21.
12 August 2001
Pakistan 1 –04–3
22.
4 November 2001
Rotterdam , NetherlandsNetherlands 2 –13–2
2001 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy
23.
7 November 2001
England 2 –13–2
24.
10 November 2001
South Korea 3 –15–3
25.
4 –1
26.
24 February 2002
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Malaysia 2 –03–0
2002 Men's Hockey World Cup
27.
3 –0
28.
27 February 2002
Poland 4 –15–1
29.
4 March 2002
South Korea 2 –04–2
30.
9 March 2002
Germany 1 –01–2
31.
27 July 2002
Manchester , England New Zealand 3 –16–1
2002 Commonwealth Games
32.
4 –1
33.
30 July 2002
Barbados 6 –020–1
34.
8 –0
35.
19 –1
36.
4 August 2002
New Zealand 1 –05–2
37.
16 August 2003
Amstelveen, Netherlands
Pakistan 2 –34–3
2003 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy
38.
19 August 2003
India 3 –04–1
39.
23 August 2003
Argentina 5 –18–3
40.
24 August 2003
Netherlands 2 –24–2
41.
20 September 2003
Wellington , New Zealand New Zealand 1 –14–3
2003 Men's Oceania Cup
42.
2 –2
43.
3 –3
44.
21 September 2003
New Zealand 3 –14–1
45.
10 January 2004
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
South Korea 1 –01–1
2004 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
46.
12 January 2004
Malaysia 2 –13–2
47.
3 –1
48.
13 January 2004
India 2 –24–2
49.
18 January 2004
Pakistan 4 –24–3
50.
15 August 2004
Athens , Greece New Zealand 1 –04–1
2004 Summer Olympics
51.
19 August 2004
India 1 –14–3
52.
25 August 2004
Spain 1 –06–3
53.
18 June 2006
Ipoh , MalaysiaIndia 1 –04–1
2006 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
54.
22 July 2006
Terrassa , Spain Pakistan 2 –13–2
2006 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy
55.
3 –2
56.
23 July 2006
Netherlands 1 –01–1
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