Martyn Grimley
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24 February 1963 Halifax, West Yorkshire, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 183 cm (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 78 kg (172 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Outside left | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1983–1987 | Brooklands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1987–1992 | Hounslow | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1992–2000 | Brooklands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Caps | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Great Britain | 178 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Martyn Andrew Grimley (born 24 February 1963) is a British former field hockey player who competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics, where he won a gold medal.[1]
Biography
[edit]Grimley was born in Halifax, England, and played club hockey for Brooklands Hockey Club in the Men's England Hockey League and represented Cheshire at county level.[2]
He was selected for the England U16 and U21 squads and was shortlisted for the 1984 Summer Olympics but failed to make the final cut but was part of the silver medal winning Great Britain team that competed at the 1985 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy in Perth, Australia.[3] Grimley gained a position at Banbury School in Oxfordshire as a Physical Education teacher in September 1985, following his training at Crewe and Alsager College. The new job resulted in him moving from Sale to Banbury [4]
While at Brooklands he represented England at the 1986 Men's Hockey World Cup, winning silver.[5] He signed for Hounslow Hockey Club for the start of the 1987/88 season and would go on to win gold with the Great Britain squad at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.[6][7]
Later, he taught geography, Physical Education and Outdoor Education at Dulwich College in London and after returning from the Olympics in 1988 he joined Zurich Financial Services.[citation needed] Still at Hounslow, he represented England at the 1990 Men's Hockey World Cup.[8]
In 1992, he returned to the Manchester area to live in Ashton upon Mersey and re-joined his former team Brooklands after the 1992 season and would become player coach in 1996.[9] After retiring from international competition he had earned a combined total of 178 international caps for England and Great Britain.
He has since[when?] become a company director running a Cheshire - based financial services business 'Warriner & Co Ltd'.[citation needed] He is a life member of Brooklands Manchester University Hockey Club.[10]
In 2018 he became Cheshire seniors strokeplay golf champion with a first time victory at Bromborough Golf Club and also won the Cheshire seniors matchplay championship in 2019.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ "Olympic cloud". Birmingham Weekly Mercury. 2 October 1988. Retrieved 19 June 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Buchan blow hits Cheshire title hopes". Manchester Evening News. 4 February 1984. Retrieved 19 June 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Champions Trophy". Sikhs in Hockey. Retrieved 24 July 2025.
- ^ "Stanbridge signing". Banbury Guardian. 27 June 1985. Retrieved 19 June 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Hockey". Middlesex Chronicle. 18 September 1986. Retrieved 19 June 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Martyn Grimley". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 26 May 2012.
- ^ "Remembering the boys of 86 – Sports Journalists' Association". 17 October 2006. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
- ^ "Hockey World Cup". Birmingham News. 3 November 1989. Retrieved 15 June 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Martyn on way back". Manchester Evening News. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 19 June 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Brooklands Hockey Club – History". Retrieved 20 November 2014.
External links
[edit]- Martyn Grimley at the International Hockey Federation
- Martyn Andrew Grimley at Olympics.com
- Martyn Grimley at Team GB
- Martyn Grimley at Olympedia
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- 1963 births
- Living people
- English male field hockey players
- English Olympic competitors
- Olympic field hockey players for Great Britain
- British male field hockey players
- Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
- Field hockey players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- English field hockey coaches
- Olympic medalists in field hockey
- Sportspeople from Halifax, West Yorkshire
- Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- 1990 Men's Hockey World Cup players