Jon Potter
Field hockey player and businessman
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Jonathan Nicholas Mark Potter (born 19 November 1963) is a former field hockey player who was a member of the gold-winning Great Britain squad at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.[1] After his playing career he became the managing director of House of Suntory and Maison Courvoisier at Suntory Global Spirits.
Paddington, London, England
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Potter in 2003 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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19 November 1963 Paddington, London, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 173 cm (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1981–1982 | Maidenhead | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1982–1999 | Hounslow | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Caps | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| – | Great Britain | 126 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| – | England | 108 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Biography
Potter was born in Paddington, Greater London, in an Anglo-Indian family and brought up in Slough, England.[2][3] He attended Burnham Grammar School from 1976 to 1982, and represented England Schoolboys at field hockey.[citation needed] Potter graduated from Southampton University in 1986 with a BA (Hons) in geography, and attended Aston Business School (1986–87) to obtain his MBA.[3]
Potter represented Great Britain and England in field hockey. He competed in three Olympic Games,[4] earning a bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.[5] and winning a gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.[6]
In total Potter won 126 caps for Great Britain and 108 caps for England, scoring 41 international goals. He competed in three World Cups, winning a silver medal at the Hockey World Cup in 1986 in London, and in three European Cups, winning silver in Moscow (1987) and bronze in Paris (1991). Potter was also part of the bronze medal winning Great Britain team that competed at the 1984 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy, in Karachi, Pakistan and the silver medal winning team the following year at the 1985 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy in Perth, Australia.[7]
He played club hockey with Hounslow Hockey Club in the Men's England Hockey League, where he helped them win the European Cup Winners Cup in 1990 and won the Hockey Association Cup four times as well as the National League title twice.[8]
He broke Richard Leman's record of 228 Great Britain and England appearances in November 1994.[9] He retired from international hockey in 1995[10] and was a board member of England Hockey Ltd from 2003 to 2007.[11]
In 2006, he unveiled the new Teddington HC clubhouse along with former teammate Jason Laslett.[12] In December 2024, he joined the board of directors for USA Field Hockey.[13]
