Stephen Batchelor (field hockey)

Steve Batchelor
Personal information
Born (1961-06-22) 22 June 1961
Beare Green, Surrey, England
Height180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight79 kg (174 lb)
Sport
SportField hockey
Senior career
Years Team Caps Goals
1979–1982 Hounslow - -
1982–1990 Southgate - -
1992–1993 East Grinstead - -
1995–1996 Richmond - -
National team
Years Team Caps Goals
– Great Britain -
– England -
Medal record
Men's field hockey
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place1988 SeoulTeam competition
Bronze medal – third place1984 Los AngelesTeam competition
Champions Trophy
Silver medal – second place1985 PerthTeam competition
Representing  England
World Cup
Silver medal – second place1986 LondonTeam competition
European Championship
Silver medal – second place1987 MoscowTeam
Bronze medal – third place1991 ParisTeam

Stephen James Batchelor (born 22 June 1961) is an English former field hockey player who competed at three Olympic Games and won a gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics.[1]

Biography

Batchelor was born in Beare Green, Surrey[1] and educated at Millfield School. He started playing club hockey for Hounslow Hockey Club in the Men's England Hockey League.[2]

After signing for Southgate Hockey Club,[3] he was selected to represent Great Britain the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles,[4] where he won a bronze medal in the field hockey tournament.[5] He was part of the silver medal winning Great Britain team that competed at the 1985 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy in Perth, Australia.[6]

Batchelor won silver with the England squad at the 1986 Hockey World Cup[7] before winning gold at his second Olympics in Seoul in 1988. During the hockey tournament, Batchelor set up Imran Sherwani in the final against West Germany.[8]

Still at Southgate, Batchelor represented England at the 1990 Men's Hockey World Cup[9] but shortly afterwards in August 1990, signed to play for East Grinstead Hockey Club.[10]

While at East Grinstead, he represented Great Britain at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, which was his third Olympics.[1][11][12]

Batchelor had played international hockey for twelve years before retiring after the 1992 Olympics, although he did go on to become player coach at Richmond Hockey Club.[13]

He is head of admissions at Cranleigh School, and coaches the U14 boys and girls hockey teams. He lives in Cranleigh and has four children with his wife Jackie.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Biographical Information". Olympedia. Retrieved 15 June 2025.
  2. ↑ "Hockey". Bristol Evening Post. 12 April 1980. Retrieved 20 June 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ↑ "National Representation". Southgate Hockey Club. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  4. ↑ "Results". Sandwell Evening Mail. 2 July 1984. Retrieved 20 June 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Steve Batchelor". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  6. ↑ "Champions Trophy". Sikhs in Hockey. Retrieved 24 July 2025.
  7. ↑ "Remembering the boys of 86". Sports Journalists' Association. 17 October 2006. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  8. ↑ "Olympic cloud". Birmingham Weekly Mercury. 2 October 1988. Retrieved 19 June 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. ↑ "Hockey World Cup". Birmingham News. 3 November 1989. Retrieved 15 June 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  10. ↑ "Sportsfile". Sunday Express. 12 August 1990. Retrieved 19 June 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  11. ↑ "Youth and experience in GB hockey squad". Dundee Courier. 6 May 1992. Retrieved 15 June 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  12. ↑ "Olympic Games: Hockey: Hill's double helps quell British tension". The Independent. ESI Media. 27 July 1992. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  13. ↑ "Reading ace aims to keep his place". Reading Evening Post. 31 January 1996. Retrieved 19 June 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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