Tom Sorsby
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| Born |
28 October 1996 Sheffield, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current club | Den Bosch | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011–2013 | Chapeltown HC | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013–2015 | Sheffield Hallam | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015-2017 | Beeston | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | University of Nottingham | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018–2023 | Surbiton | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023–present | Den Bosch | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Caps | Goals | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | England & GB U-21 | 26 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019–present | England & GB | 47 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Thomas Callum Sorsby (born 28 October 1996) is an English field hockey player who plays as a midfielder or defender for Dutch Hoofdklasse club Den Bosch and the England and Great Britain national teams. He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2024 Summer Olympics.
Biography
[edit]Sorsby played hockey for Chapeltown HC before playing for Sheffield Hallam from 2013 to 2015. He played for England at under-18 and under-21 level and for Great Britain at under-21 and under-23 level.
He joined Beeston for the 2015–16 season and represented the England under-21 in the Sultan of Johor Cup in 2016, when they finished 4th and played for the Great Britain under-21 team in the Sultan of Johor Cup in 2017, when they finished 2nd.[1]
After the 2017–18 season when he played for University of Nottingham Hockey Club he joined Surbiton in the Men's England Hockey League for the 2018–19 season.[1] Sorsby earned a call up to the Great Britain Olympic squad for the delayed 2020 Olympics Games in Tokyo.[2][3]
He won a bronze medal with England in the Men's tournament at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.[4] Sorsby continued to play club hockey in the Premier Division for Surbiton until 2023,[5] when he left England to play for Den Bosch in the Dutch Hoofdklasse.[6]
Sorsby was part of the Great Britain that was selected for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, where the team reached the quarter final of the hockey event.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Tom Sorsby Joins Surbiton From University of Nottingham | Surbiton Hockey Club".
- ^ "Biographical Information". Olympedia. Retrieved 11 May 2025.
- ^ "Team GB hockey: 21 players to make Olympic debuts as men's and women's squads are named". Sky Sports. 17 June 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2025.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games: England's men win hockey bronze against South Africa". BBC Sport. Retrieved 11 May 2025.
- ^ "Fixtures, Results, Tables, Stats, Teams & Players - England Hockey". Englandhockey.co.uk. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
- ^ "HC Den Bosch trekt Engelse international Tom Sorsby aan: 'Een eer en geweldige kans'". bd.nl (in Dutch). Brabants Dagblad. 16 June 2023. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "GB wait for men's hockey medal goes on after shootout heartbreak". BBC Sport. 4 August 2024. Retrieved 11 May 2025.
External links
[edit]- Tom Sorsby at the International Hockey Federation
- Tom Sorsby at Olympics.com
- Tom Sorsby at Team GB
- Tom Sorsby at Olympedia
- Tom Sorsby at Global Sports Archive
- Tom Sorsby on Great Britain Hockey
- Tom Sorsby on England Hockey
- Tom Sorsby at Team England
- Thomas Sorsby at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
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- 1996 births
- Living people
- English male field hockey players
- Male field hockey defenders
- Male field hockey midfielders
- Surbiton Hockey Club players
- Men's England Hockey League players
- Beeston Hockey Club players
- 2023 Men's FIH Hockey World Cup players
- Olympic field hockey players for Great Britain
- Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in field hockey
- Commonwealth Games field hockey players for England
- Field hockey players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Sportspeople from Sheffield
- HC Den Bosch players
- English expatriate field hockey players
- Men's Hoofdklasse Hockey players
- Field hockey players at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- 21st-century English sportsmen