Simon Mason (field hockey)
![]() Simon Mason accompanying The Princess Edward, Countess of Wessex in 2010 | |||||||||||||||
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Nationality | English | ||||||||||||||
Born | Harpenden, Hertfordshire | 30 March 1973||||||||||||||
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Sport | Field Hockey | ||||||||||||||
Club | Reading Hockey Club | ||||||||||||||
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Simon Brindley Mason (born 30 March 1973) is a male former English field hockey goalkeeper from Harpenden, Hertfordshire.
Hockey career
[edit]Mason participated in three Summer Olympics for Great Britain: in 1996, 2000 and 2004. Mason, nicknamed Long Arm of the Law, played club hockey for Firebrands, Stroud, Reading, Guildford and Indian Gymkhana Hockey Club. He represented England and won a bronze medal, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur.[1]
Personal life
[edit]He is a resident of Woking, and is co-owner and managing director of Mercian Sports Company a specialist field hockey equipment company. He was the President of the England Hockey Board (2010–2013), is a current member of the executive board for the European Hockey Federation and was on the Athlete Committees for both the International Hockey Federation and the Organising Committee for the London Olympic Games (2005–2012).
References
[edit]- ^ "1998 Athletes". Team England.
External links
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- 1973 births
- Living people
- English male field hockey players
- Male field hockey goalkeepers
- Olympic field hockey players for Great Britain
- British male field hockey players
- Field hockey players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- 1998 Men's Hockey World Cup players
- 2002 Men's Hockey World Cup players
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
- People from Harpenden
- People educated at Katharine Lady Berkeley's School
- Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey
- Reading Hockey Club players
- Guildford Hockey Club players
- Field hockey players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- English field hockey biography stubs