Ian Johnston (field hockey)
Canadian field hockey player (1929–2020)
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Reginald "Ian" Hallam Johnston (4 March 1929 – 11 December 2020)[1] was a Canadian field hockey player.[2]
Originally from Dublin in Ireland,[3] Johnston moved to British Columbia in Canada after World War II.[1] He played club hockey with Grasshoppers Hockey Club in Vancouver and was later selected for a representative British Columbia team.[4] Together with Tony Boyd and Paddy Ruttle, Johnston was one of a number of Irish field hockey players selected for the Canadian men's field hockey team.[5][6] As "Canada's first ever field hockey captain", he played in a number of qualifying games ahead of the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.[4] Also selected for the Olympic team, he participated in several of Canada's games at the competition.[7] He co-captained the Canadian team in the men's field hockey competition at the 1967 Pan American Games, in which Canada finished fourth.[4] He retired from competition shortly after the 1967 games.[1]
Johnston died in December 2020.[8]
