Troy Elder

Troy Elder
Medal record
Representing Australia
Men's field hockey
Olympic Games
World Cup
Champions Trophy
Commonwealth Games

Troy Elder OAM^[1] (born 15 October 1977 in Bunbury, Western Australia) is a field hockey striker and midfielder from Australia, who was a member of the Men's National Team that won the golden medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Four years earlier, when Sydney hosted the Olympic Games, Elder finished in third spot with The Kookaburras, as the national team is called.

Elder originated from Bundaberg, Queensland, where he played for the All Blacks Hockey Club. Nicknamed Woody, Elder shot into limelight as a player with the National Junior Squad, that won the Hockey Junior World Cup at Milton Keynes in 1997 against India. After the 1998 Australian Hockey League season with the Queensland Blades, Elder got into the senior National Squad at the 1998 Champions Trophy in Lahore, where Australia won the bronze. He was part of the winning team in the 1999 Champions Trophy at Brisbane.

Just like his countrymen Jay Stacy and Michael Brennan, Elder moved to the Netherlands, where he played club hockey for Eindhoven's Oranje Zwart, with whom he won the Dutch title in the spring of 2005. The price was high, because during the Dutch play-offs he neglected the call from Australia's Head Coach Barry Dancer to come over for a training session with the men's National Team. He therefore had to miss the 2005 Champions Trophy in Chennai and the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.

Having retired from international hockey, Elder played club hockey for United Hockey in Brisbane for some time whilst still representing the Queensland Blades. A plumber by profession, he is fond of surfing and fishing.

International goals[edit]

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	2 November 1998	Lahore, Pakistan	South Korea	1–1	1–1	1998 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy
2.	3 November 1998	Lahore, Pakistan	Pakistan	4–3	4–4	1998 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy
3.	13 June 1999	Brisbane, Australia	Spain	2–0	2–0	1999 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy
4.	14 June 1999		Netherlands	1–0	2–1
5.	18 June 1999		Pakistan	1–0	1–2
6.	20 June 1999		South Korea	2–0	3–1
7.	28 May 2000	Amstelveen, Netherlands	Spain	1–1	1–1	2000 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy
8.	30 May 2000		Great Britain	1–0	3–3
9.	30 May 2000		Great Britain	2–0	3–3
10.	30 September 2000	Sydney, Australia	Pakistan	1–0	6–3	2000 Summer Olympics
11.				2–1
12.				5–2
13.	2 August 2001	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Pakistan	3–1	5–3	2001 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
14.	2 August 2001		Pakistan	4–1	5–3
15.	4 August 2001		Germany	1–1	2–6
16.	4 August 2001		Germany	2–4	2–6
17.	7 August 2001		India	3–2	3–2
18.	10 August 2001		Malaysia	3–1	7–1
19.				4–1
20.				7–1
21.	12 August 2001		Pakistan	1–0	4–3
22.	4 November 2001	Rotterdam, Netherlands	Netherlands	2–1	3–2	2001 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy
23.	7 November 2001		England	2–1	3–2
24.	10 November 2001		South Korea	3–1	5–3
25.	10 November 2001		South Korea	4–1	5–3
26.	24 February 2002	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Malaysia	2–0	3–0	2002 Men's Hockey World Cup
27.	24 February 2002		Malaysia	3–0	3–0
28.	27 February 2002		Poland	4–1	5–1
29.	4 March 2002		South Korea	2–0	4–2
30.	9 March 2002		Germany	1–0	1–2
31.	27 July 2002	Manchester, England	New Zealand	3–1	6–1	2002 Commonwealth Games
32.	27 July 2002		New Zealand	4–1	6–1
33.	30 July 2002		Barbados	6–0	20–1
34.				8–0
35.				19–1
36.	4 August 2002		New Zealand	1–0	5–2
37.	16 August 2003	Amstelveen, Netherlands	Pakistan	2–3	4–3	2003 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy
38.	19 August 2003		India	3–0	4–1
39.	23 August 2003		Argentina	5–1	8–3
40.	24 August 2003		Netherlands	2–2	4–2
41.	20 September 2003	Wellington, New Zealand	New Zealand	1–1	4–3	2003 Men's Oceania Cup
42.				2–2
43.				3–3
44.	21 September 2003		New Zealand	3–1	4–1
45.	10 January 2004	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	South Korea	1–0	1–1	2004 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
46.	12 January 2004		Malaysia	2–1	3–2
47.	12 January 2004		Malaysia	3–1	3–2
48.	13 January 2004		India	2–2	4–2
49.	18 January 2004		Pakistan	4–2	4–3
50.	15 August 2004	Athens, Greece	New Zealand	1–0	4–1	2004 Summer Olympics
51.	19 August 2004		India	1–1	4–3
52.	25 August 2004		Spain	1–0	6–3
53.	18 June 2006	Ipoh, Malaysia	India	1–0	4–1	2006 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
54.	22 July 2006	Terrassa, Spain	Pakistan	2–1	3–2	2006 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy
55.	22 July 2006		Pakistan	3–2	3–2
56.	23 July 2006		Netherlands	1–0	1–1