Nathan Eglington
| Medal record | ||
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| Men's field hockey | ||
Representing  Australia | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
 | 2004 Athens | Team |
| World Cup | ||
 | 2006 Mönchengladbach | Team |
| Champions Trophy | ||
| 2005 Chennai | Team |
| 2003 Amstelveen | Team |
| 2007 Kuala Lumpur | Team |
| Commonwealth Games | ||
| 2006 Melbourne | Team |
Nathan Eglington OAM (born 2 December 1980 in Murwillumbah, New South Wales) is a field hockey midfielder and striker from Australia, who was a member of the team that won the golden medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
He is nicknamed Eggy, and played domestic hockey for the Queensland Blades in his native country Australia, with whom he won the national title in 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007. Eglington made his international debut in 2002, in a test series game against South Korea in Adelaide, scoring twice.
Eglington played 140 times for Australia scoring 50 goals before major injury prior to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, forced retirement from international competition at the age of 27 years.
In 2025, Eglington was added to the Hockey Australia Hall of Fame.
He is married to fellow former Australian representative, Lisa Eglington. The pair live in Tweed Heads with their two children.[1]
References
[edit]- ↑ McInerney, Matthew (4 February 2018). "Lisa Eglington returns to the east coast". Fraser Coast Chronicle. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
External links
[edit]- Nathan Eglington at the Australian Olympic Committee
- Nathan Eglington at Olympedia
- Nathan Eglington at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
- Nathan Eglington at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games (archived)
- Nathan Eglington at InterSportStats
- Profile on Hockey Australia
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- 1980 births
- Australian men's field hockey players
- Men's field hockey forwards
- Men's field hockey midfielders
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games field hockey players for Australia
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- Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
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- 2006 Men's Hockey World Cup players
- Living people
- Olympic field hockey players for Australia
- Olympic gold medalists for Australia
- Olympic medalists in field hockey
- Sportspeople from Murwillumbah
- Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Sportsmen from New South Wales
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- 21st-century Australian sportsmen
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