Craig Parnham
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| Born |
13 July 1973 (age 52) Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||
| 1988–1991 | Bridgnorth | ||||||||||||||||
| 1991-1996 | Stourport | ||||||||||||||||
| 1996–2004 | Cannock | ||||||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Caps | |||||||||||||||
| 2000–2004 | GB | 64 | |||||||||||||||
| 2001-2004 | England | 51 | |||||||||||||||
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Craig Daniel Parnham (born 13 July 1973[1] in ) is an English field hockey defender and coach. He represented Great Britain in two Summer Olympics in 2000 and 2004.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Parnham played club hockey for Cannock in the Men's England Hockey League after being signed from Stourport Hockey Club in 1996. He made his debut for Great Britain in 2000,[2] shortly before being included in the team for the 2000 Summer Olympics.[1][3]
The following year he made his debut for England,[4] where he was appointed captain.[1]
He sustained a serious throat injury in August 2001, when he was caught in the throat by a flying stick while playing for England against Pakistan in Malaysia. Parnham was put into intensive care and surgeons considered a tracheotomy before deciding that an operation was required on his larynx.[1][5][4]
Still at Cannock, he represented England at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester[6][7] and at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Parnham represented Great Britain for his second Olympics.[2][8] In total, Parnham won 64 caps for Great Britain and 51 for England.
He is now a coach, and has taken the Great Britain women's team to the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games. In January 2013 he was appointed head coach of the USA Women's National Team,[9] a position he held until the end of 2016.[10]
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External links
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- 1973 births
- English male field hockey players
- Male field hockey defenders
- English field hockey coaches
- Field hockey players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- 2002 Men's Hockey World Cup players
- Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Living people
- Olympic field hockey players for Great Britain
- British male field hockey players
- People educated at Bromsgrove School
- Sportspeople from Bridgnorth
- Olympic coaches for the United States
- Cannock Hockey Club players