John Conroy (field hockey)
British field hockey player (1928–1985)
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John Valentine Conroy (27 November 1928 – 9 November 1985) was a British field hockey player who played for Mid Surrey Hockey Club and competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics winning a bronze medal and in the 1956 Summer Olympics.[1]
Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
Liverpool, England
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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| Born |
27 November 1928 Nagpur, Maharashtra, India | |||||||||||||
| Died |
9 November 1985 (aged 56) Liverpool, England | |||||||||||||
| Senior career | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | |||||||||||||
| 1952–1954 | Army | |||||||||||||
| 1955–1960 | Mid-Surrey | |||||||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Caps | Goals | |||||||||||
| – | Great Britain | |||||||||||||
| – | England | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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Biography
Conroy was born in an Anglo-Indian family in Nagpur. He went on to become the first Anglo-Indian to play for England and Great Britain, representing them from 1952 until 1960.[2]
Conroy played club hockey for Mid-Surrey and Lytham St. Anne's.[3]
He represented Great Britain in the field hockey tournament at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki[4][2] and represented the Great Britain team again in the field hockey tournament at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne.[5][2]
