Bryn Williams (field hockey)

British field hockey player

Born July 1953 (age 72)
Wales

Playing position Centre-half

Years Team

1972–1975 Liverpool Univ

Bryn Williams

Personal information

Born

July 1953 (age 72)
Wales

Playing position

Centre-half

Senior career

Years

Team

1972–1975

Liverpool Univ

1975–1978

Harborne

1978–1984

Cardiff

National team

Years

Team

Caps

Goals

–

Wales

–

Great Britain

Medal record

Field hockey

Representing Great Britain
Champions Trophy
	1978 Lahore	Team competition

Richard Bryn Williams (born July 1953) is a former hockey international player, who represented Wales and Great Britain. He was selected for the 1980 Summer Olympics.

Williams was born in Wales, educated at Denbigh High School, Denbighshire and studied Economics at the University of Liverpool.^[1]

After University, Williams joined Harborne Hockey Club in 1975 and made his Welsh debut during the 1975 tour of South Africa.^[1] He represented Staffordshire at county level.^[2]

Williams was part of the bronze medal-winning Great Britain team that competed at the inaugural 1978 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy, in Lahore, Pakistan^[3] After moving to Cardiff Hockey Club he would later captain Wales.^[4] He was selected for the Great Britain team for the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, but subsequently did not attend due to the boycott.^[5]^[6]

After he stopped playing he had earned 110 caps for Wales indoors and outdoors. He then took up coaching and in 1988 took on the role of coach at Sudbury Hockey Club^[7] He was also the team manager for Wales at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester.

Williams was a chartered accountant by trade and was the executive chairman for Teamwork Technology Services, in addition to acting as a Director for Great Britain Hockey from 2006 to 2014.^[8]

References

1 2 "Unlucky Mike ruled out by injury". Staffordshire Sentinel. 25 September 1975. Retrieved 1 August 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
↑ "Staffs. Open Midland Title Bid". Staffordshire Sentinel. 23 October 1975. Retrieved 1 August 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
↑ "Gregg gets G.B. Call-up". Belfast Telegraph. 24 October 1978. Retrieved 1 August 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
↑ "YM match brought forward". Belfast Telegraph. 10 March 1981. Retrieved 1 August 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
↑ "Moscow 1980 Olympic Games: Great Britain Team". Sikhs in Hockey. Retrieved 2 August 2025.
↑ "Neil Menzies on short leet for Moscow Olympics". Aberdeen Press and Journal. 20 September 1979. Retrieved 2 August 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
↑ "Yop coach for Sudbury". Suffolk and Essex Free Press. 4 August 1988. Retrieved 1 August 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
↑ "Richard Bryn Williams". Companies House. Retrieved 1 August 2025.

v t e Great Britain squad – 1978 Champions Trophy – Bronze medal
1 Barber 2 Brookeman 3 Cattrall 4 Cotton (c) 5 Duthie 6 Foulkes 7 Gregg 8 McLean 9 Menzies 10 Owen (gk) 11 Sutherland 12 I. Taylor (gk) 13 Westcott 14 Western 15 B. Williams 16 H. Williams Coach: ? Manager: Self

v t e Wales squad – 2002 Commonwealth Games
1 Ashcroft 2 Davies-Yandle 3 Edwards 4 Grace 5 Griffiths-Jones 6 Harris (gk) 7 H. Hoskin 8 M. Hoskin 9 John 10 H. Jones 11 Z. Jones 12 Joyce 13 Ogden 14 Organ 15 Smith 16 Westerman Coach: , Manager: Williams

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