George Pinner
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Born |
18 January 1987 Ipswich, Suffolk, England | ||
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)[1] | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Senior career | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| –2006 | Ipswich | ||
| 2006–2014 | Beeston | ||
| 2014–2019 | Holcombe | ||
| 2019–2025 | Old Georgians | ||
| National team | |||
| Years | Team | Caps | Goals |
| 2009–2021 | England & GB | 195 | (0) |
Medal record | |||
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George Christopher Pinner (born 18 January 1987) is an English former field hockey player who played as a goalkeeper for Old Georgians and from 2009 to 2021 played for the England and Great Britain national teams. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Pinner, born in Ipswich, played club hockey for Ipswich until 2006 when he joined Beeston in the Men's England Hockey League Premier Division.[2] While at Beeston, he made his senior international debut in 2009 against the Netherlands and his tournament debut at the 2011 Champions Trophy. He was the reserve goalkeeper at the 2012 Olympic Games.[3]
In June 2012 he was one of seven GB hockey athletes to pose for the centerfold of Cosmopolitan magazine as part of a campaign to raise awareness of male cancers and the Everyman cancer charity.[citation needed] Pinner represented England in the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, where he won a bronze medal.[4]
After the Commonwealth Games, Pinner joined Holcombe for the 2014/15 season[5] and won goalkeeper of the tournament for Great Britain at the 2016 Champions Trophy before heading off to Rio for his first Olympics as the first choice goalkeeper at the 2016 Olympic Games.[6][7]
In 2017 Pinner married England international Jo Hunter[8] and represented England and won a bronze medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast.[9]
On 30 May 2019 it was announced that he was joining Old Georgians ahead of their first season in the Men's England Hockey League Premier Division.[10]
On 4 November 2021 he announced his retirement from International Hockey.[11] At Old Georgians, Pinner was part of the team that won two league and cup doubles during the 2021-22 season and 2022-23 seasons and the league title during the 2023-24 season.[12]
At the end of the 2025 season, he retired from all hockey.[13]
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External links
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- British male field hockey players
- Living people
- 1987 births
- Sportspeople from Ipswich
- Male field hockey goalkeepers
- Field hockey players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- 2014 Men's Hockey World Cup players
- Field hockey players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup players
- Olympic field hockey players for Great Britain
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in field hockey
- Holcombe Hockey Club players
- Beeston Hockey Club players
- Men's England Hockey League players
- Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- 21st-century British sportsmen