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| Born | 17 April 1996 London, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Field hockey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Forward | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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William James Cameron Calnan (born 17 April 1996) is an English field hockey player who plays as a forward for Dutch Hoofdklasse club HDM and the England and Great Britain national teams.[1] He competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Biography
[edit]Calnan, born in London, went to school at St Andrew's School in Woking and Cranleigh School, Surrey[2] and studied at Kingston University, where he graduated with a degree in business management.
Calnan played club hockey for Surbiton in the Men's England Hockey League Premier Division from 2013 to 2016 and Hampstead & Westminster from 2016 to 2023. While at Hampstead & Westminster he made his senior Great Britain national team debut against Belgium, on 14 June 2018. He won a bronze medal with England in the Men's tournament at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham[3] and won a silver medal with England at the 2023 Men's EuroHockey Championship in Mönchengladbach.[4]
Calnan transferred to Southgate Hockey Club for the 2023–24 season and on 18 June 2024, he was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2024 Summer Olympics.[5] The team went out in the quarter-finals after losing a penalty shootout to India.[6]
In 2024 he left England to play for HDM in the Dutch Hoofdklasse.[7] He joined Surbiton for the 2025–26 season.
References
[edit]- ↑ "Senior Squads | England Hockey".
- ↑ "England Calls". Cranleigh School. 11 December 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
- ↑ "Commonwealth Games: England's men win hockey bronze against South Africa". BBC Sport. Retrieved 11 May 2025.
- ↑ "EuroHockey: England men lose out to the Netherlands in dramatic final". BBC Sport. 27 August 2023. Retrieved 29 July 2025.
- ↑ "GB hockey select Roper for fourth Olympic Games". bbc.com. BBC. 18 June 2024. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
- ↑ "GB wait for men's hockey medal goes on after shootout heartbreak". BBC Sport. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
- ↑ "Will Calnan speelt komend seizoen bij HDM heren 1". 070online.nl (in Dutch). 21 June 2024. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
External links
[edit]- Will Calnan at the International Hockey Federation
- Will Calnan at the European Hockey Federation
- Will Calnan on England Hockey
- Will Calnan at Team GB
- Will Calnan at Team England
- William Calnan at Olympics.com
- William Calnan} at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
- William Calnan at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
- William Calnan on Instagram
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- 1996 births
- Living people
- Alumni of Kingston University
- English men's field hockey players
- British men's field hockey players
- Men's field hockey forwards
- People educated at Cranleigh School
- 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup players
- Surbiton Hockey Club players
- Hampstead & Westminster Hockey Club players
- Men's England Hockey League players
- 2023 Men's FIH Hockey World Cup players
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in field hockey
- Commonwealth Games field hockey players for England
- Field hockey players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Haagsche Delftsche Mixed players
- Men's Hoofdklasse Hockey players
- Field hockey players from London
- English expatriate field hockey players
- Southgate Hockey Club players
- Field hockey players at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Olympic field hockey players for Great Britain
- 21st-century English sportsmen