John Conroy (field hockey)
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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 | ||||||||||||||
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| Great Britain | ||||||||||||||
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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]
Biography
[edit]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]
References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "John Conroy". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 13 December 2012. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
- ^ a b c "Biographical Information". Olympedia. Retrieved 17 July 2025.
- ^ "When Anglo-Indians were kings in hockey". The Asian Age. 17 February 2012. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
- ^ "British Hockey changes". Nottingham Evening Post. 22 July 1952. Retrieved 17 July 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Welsh trio in Olympics Hockey XI". Western Mail. 30 May 1956. Retrieved 17 July 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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Categories:
- 1928 births
- 1985 deaths
- British male field hockey players
- Sportspeople from Nagpur
- Field hockey players from Maharashtra
- Anglo-Indian people
- Emigrants from British India to the United Kingdom
- British people of Anglo-Indian descent
- English Olympic competitors
- Olympic field hockey players for Great Britain
- Field hockey players at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain
- Olympic medalists in field hockey
- Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics