Alyson Annan

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Alyson Annan
Personal information
Born 12 June 1973 (1973-06-12) (age 50)
Wentworthville, New South Wales, Australia
Height 162 cm (5 ft 4 in)
Weight 65 kg (143 lb)
Medal record
Women's Field Hockey
Representing  Australia
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1996 Atlanta Team
Gold medal – first place 2000 Sydney Team
World Hockey Cup
Gold medal – first place 1994 Dublin Team
Gold medal – first place 1998 Utrecht Team
Champions Trophy
Gold medal – first place 1993 Amstelveen Team
Gold medal – first place 1995 Mar del Plata Team
Gold medal – first place 1997 Berlin Team
Gold medal – first place 1999 Brisbane Team
Bronze medal – third place 2000 Amstelveen Team
Bronze medal – third place 2001 Amstelveen Team
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 1998 Kuala Lumpur Team
Junior World Cup
Silver medal – second place 1993 Barcelona Team

Alyson Regina Annan OAM (born 12 June 1973) is a former field hockey player from Australia, who earned a total number of 228 international caps for the Women's National Team, in which she scored 166 goals.

Biography

Annan was born on 12 June 1973 in Wentworthville, New South Wales.[1] She was voted the Best Female Hockey Player in the World in 1999.[2] In the following year, lead the Australian team to gold at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She subsequently retired from international competition and moved to the Netherlands. In the Netherlands she played for HC Klein Zwitserland from The Hague. She retired in 2003, becoming the coach of Dutch league team HC Klein Zwitserland. In 2004 she was an assistant of Dutch Head Coach Marc Lammers at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, when the Netherlands won silver.

Annan was married to Argentinian hockey player, Maximiliano Caldas.[3] After their divorce her partner became Carole Thate, a former Dutch hockey captain and fellow Olympic medallist. Annan and Thate had their first child, Sam, in May 2007.[3] Their second son, Cooper, was born in October 2008.[4]

Annan was to be the coach of the first women's team of the Amsterdamsche Hockey & Bandy Club during the 2012-2013 season.[5]

In 2013 Annan was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame.[6]

Major international tournaments

Awards

References

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  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Hannan, Liz. "[1]". The Sunday Age, 1 July 2007. Retrieved on 18 May 2011
  4. ↑ Connolly, Paul. "Back home to show off their boys" The Sydney Morning Herald, 11 January 2009. Retrieved on 18 May 2011
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Awards
Preceded by
None
 WorldHockey Player of the Year
1998		 Succeeded by
Germany Natascha Keller
Preceded by WorldHockey Player of the Year
2000		 Succeeded by
Argentina Luciana Aymar

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