Mark William KnowlesOAM (born 10 March 1984) is the Australian field hockey captain. He has played professional hockey in the Netherlands for HC Rotterdam. He plays for the Queensland Blades in the Australian Hockey League. He has been the captain of the Australia men's national field hockey team the Kookaburras since 2014. He won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics, the 2014 World Cup, the 2005 and 2012 Champions Trophy. Knowles' most recent achievement was runner-up in the 2021 Brisbane Hockey League Division 2 Grand Final.
Australian field hockey player
Mark Knowles
Personal information
Nationality
Australian
Born
(1984-03-10) 10 March 1984 (age38)
Sport
Country
Australia
Sport
Field hockey
Medal record
Men's field hockey
Representing Australia
Olympic Games
2004 Athens
Team
2008 Beijing
Team
2012 London
Team
World Cup
2010 New Delhi
2014 The Hague
2006 Mönchengladbach
Champions Trophy
2005 Chennai
2008 Rotterdam
2009 Melbourne
2012 Melbourne
2007 Kuala Lumpur
Oceania Cup
2015 Stratford
2017 Sydney
World League
2014–15 Raipur
Team
2016–17 Bhubaneswar
Team
Commonwealth Games
2006 Melbourne
Team
2010 Delhi
Team
2014 Glasgow
Team
2018 Gold Coast
Team
Brisbane Hockey League
2021 BHL (Division 2)
Personal
Mark Knowles is from Rockhampton, Queensland.[1][2] He lives in Brisbane with his wife, Kelly (sister of Australian Hockey teammate, Jamie Dwyer) and their two sons.[3]
Field hockey
Knowles played professional hockey in 2008[4] and 2011 in the Netherlands for HC Rotterdam.[5] He plays for the Queensland Blades in the Australian Hockey League. In 2010, he played in the final game of the season for his team.[6]
National team
Knowles is the captain of the Australia men's national field hockey team.[7][8][9] In 2006, he represented Australia at the Azlan Shah tournament in Malaysia.[7] He competed in the 2007 Champions Trophy competition for Australia.[8] In December 2007, he was a member of the Kookaburras squad that competed in the Dutch Series in Canberra.[10] In January 2008, he was a member of the senior national team that competed at the Five Nations men's hockey tournament in South Africa.[11] He was a member of the 2009 Champions Trophy winning team, playing in the gold medal match against Germany that Australia won by a score of 5–3.[12] New national team coach Ric Charlesworth named him, a returning member, and fourteen total new players who had few than 10 national team caps to the squad before in April 2009 in a bid to ready the team for the 2010 Commonwealth Games.[13] He was a member of the national team in 2010.[6] That year, he was a member of the team that finished first at the Hockey Champions Trophy.[6] Because of other commitments, he could not compete at the Azlan Shah Cup in Malaysia in May 2011.[9] In December 2011, he was named as one of twenty-eight players to be on the 2012 Summer Olympics Australian men's national training squad. This squad will be narrowed in June 2012. He trained with the team from 18 January to mid-March in Perth, Western Australia.[14][15][16] In February during the training camp, he played in a four nations test series with the teams being the Kookaburras, Australia A Squad, the Netherlands and Argentina.[1] He is one of several Queensland based players likely to play in a three-game test series to be played in Cairns, Queensland from 22 to 25 June against the New Zealand's Black Stickss. Final Olympic section will occur several days before this test and his inclusion in the series will be contingent upon being selected.[2]
Recognition
In the 2005 Australia Day Honours Knowles was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM).[17]
In 2007, Knowles was honoured by being named the Young Player of the Year by the International Hockey Federation. In 2015, Knowles was honoured by being named the 2014 World Player of the Year, following on from his performances at the 2014 Hockey World Cup, by the International Hockey Federation. He has been the Kookaburras captain since 2014.
Knowles was the Australian flag bearer at the 2018 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony on 4 April 2018.[18] He was also a baton runner during the Rockhampton leg of the Queen's Baton Relay on 23 March 2018 in the lead up to the Commonwealth Games.[19]
Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; etal. "Mark Knowles". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
Stannard, Damien (7 September 2008). "Ocky has deal with the Dutch". The Sunday Mail. Brisbane, Australia. p.96. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
Другой контент может иметь иную лицензию. Перед использованием материалов сайта WikiSort.org внимательно изучите правила лицензирования конкретных элементов наполнения сайта.
2019-2024 WikiSort.org - проект по пересортировке и дополнению контента Википедии