Peter Whitbread (field hockey)
British field hockey player and coach
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Peter Whitbread (28 March 1917 – 1 October 1995) was a British and English field hockey player who competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics.[1]
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| Born | 28 March 1917 Kingston upon Thames, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 1 October 1995 (aged 78) Devon, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Field hockey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Defender | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Biography
Whitbread was educated at Kingston Grammar School[1] and played for Old Kingstonians Hockey Club, for whom he would become secretary. At representative level he played for Surrey and The South.[2]
He would later captain Surrey[3] and played at international level for England.[1]
Living in Cranbrook Drive, Esher at the time,[4] Whitbread was selected for the Olympic Trial[5] and subsequently represented Great Britain in the field hockey tournament at the 1948 Olympic Games in London, winning a silver medal, although he had to settle for being an unused substitute.[6]
In 1947, Whitbread was a South selector and a legislator for the Hockey Association.[7]