James Gall (field hockey)
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Full name | James Richard Gall | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Frimley, Surrey, England | 20 May 1995||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing position | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current club | Surbiton | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Surbiton | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Senior career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||
2012-2014 | Surbiton | ||||||||||||||||||||||
2014-2015 | Beeston | ||||||||||||||||||||||
2015–2017 | University of Nottingham | ||||||||||||||||||||||
2017–present | Surbiton | ||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||
2013–2016 | England & GB U21 | 36 | |||||||||||||||||||||
2017–present | England & GB | 94 | (5) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Last updated on: 4 February 2022 |
James Richard Gall (born 20 May 1995) is an English field hockey player who plays as a midfielder for Surbiton and the England and Great Britain national teams.[2][3]
He was educated at Cranleigh School, Surrey.[4]
Club career
[edit]Gall plays club hockey in the Men's England Hockey League Premier Division for Surbiton. He re-joined Surbiton for the 2017-18 season, from University of Nottingham. He also played for Beeston.[5][6]
International career
[edit]Gall made his senior debut for England versus South Africa in March 2017, having represented his country at under-16, under-18, and under-21 levels. He played for England under-21 in the 2013 and 2016 Junior World Cups and won a bronze medal at the 2014 European under-21 championships. He joined the Great Britain Centralised Programme in 2017 and was a member of the Great Britain squad which won the 2017 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup Final in Ipoh, Malaysia on 6 May 2017 – the first time either Great Britain or England had won this title since 1994.
References
[edit]- ^ "GALL James". www.worldcup2018.hockey. International Hockey Federation. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ^ https://teamengland.org/team-england-athletes/james-gall [bare URL]
- ^ "James Gall - GB Hockey". www.greatbritainhockey.co.uk. Archived from the original on 31 October 2020.
- ^ "James Gall gets England U21 call up - Cranleigh School". cranleigh.org. 15 May 2013. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
- ^ http://surbitonhc.com/james-gall-re-signs-for-surbiton-m1/ [dead link]
- ^ "Surbiton add two GB internationals while Reading also make moves - EHL". ehlhockey.tv. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
External links
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- 1995 births
- Living people
- English male field hockey players
- Male field hockey midfielders
- Field hockey players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup players
- Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
- Beeston Hockey Club players
- Surbiton Hockey Club players
- Men's England Hockey League players
- Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic field hockey players for Great Britain
- Sportspeople from Frimley
- Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- English field hockey biography stubs