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Jacob Whetton

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Jake Whetton
Personal information
Full name Jacob Thomas Whetton
Born (1991-06-15) 15 June 1991 (age 33)
Brisbane, Australia
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Weight 64 kg (141 lb)
Playing position Forward
Club information
Current club Brisbane Blaze
Youth career
Eastern Suburbs Tigers
Senior career
Years Team
–2018 Queensland Blades
2014–2017 Punjab Warriors
2019-2024 Brisbane Blaze
2024-present NMHC Nijmegen
National team
Years Team Caps Goals
2011–present Australia 209 (65)
Medal record
Men's field hockey
Representing  Australia
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo Team
World Cup
Gold medal – first place 2014 The Hague
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Bhubaneswar
Oceania Cup
Gold medal – first place 2013 Stratford
Gold medal – first place 2017 Sydney
Gold medal – first place 2019 Rockhampton
Gold medal – first place 2023 Whangārei
FIH Pro League
Gold medal – first place 2019 Amstelveen
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2014 Glasgow Team
Gold medal – first place 2018 Gold Coast Team
Gold medal – first place 2022 Birmingham Team
Champions Trophy
Gold medal – first place 2012 Melbourne
Gold medal – first place 2018 Breda
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Bhubaneswar
World League
Gold medal – first place 2016–17 Bhubaneswar
Junior World Cup
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Johor Bahru–Singapore

Jacob Thomas Whetton (born 15 June 1991) is an Australian field hockey player who plays as a forward for the Australian national team.

Personal life

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Whetton is from Queensland[2] and considers Brisbane his home town.[3] He was born on 15 June 1991.[3] He lives in Perth, Western Australia.[3] His nickname is Whetty.[3]

Club career

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Whetton plays for the Queensland Blades in the Australian Hockey League where he wears number 21. He played three seasons for the Punjab Warriors in the Hockey India League. In the inaugural Hockey One season in 2019 he played for the Brisbane Blaze. In February 2020 he signed a two-year contract at Oranje-Rood in the Dutch Hoofdklasse from the 2020–21 season onwards.[4] After the postponement of the 2020 Summer Olympics to 2021 the transfer was cancelled.[5]

International career

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In December 2011, Whetton was named as one of fourteen players to be on the 2012 Summer Olympics Australian men's national Olympic development squad. While this squad is not in the top twenty-eight and separate from the Olympic training coach, the Australian coach Ric Charlesworth did not rule out selecting from only the training squad, with players from the Olympic development having a chance at possibly being called up to represent Australia at the Olympics. He trained with the team from 18 January to mid-March in Perth, Western Australia.[2][3] Since his debut in 2011 he has played 209 times for the Kookaburras.

Whetton was selected in the Kookaburras Olympics squad for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The team reached the final for the first time since 2004 but couldn't achieve gold, beaten by Belgium in a shootout.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "WHETTON Jake". www.worldcup2018.hockey. International Hockey Federation. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
  2. ^ a b Barrow, Tim (15 December 2011). "Govers on his way to London Games - HOCKEY". Illawarra Mercury. Wollongong, Australia. p. 69. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Hockey Australia: Jacob Whetton". Hockey.org.au. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
  4. ^ Blauwhof, Joost (4 February 2020). "Oranje-Rood haalt Australische sterspeler Jake Whetton in huis". ed.nl (in Dutch). Eindhovens Dagblad. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
  5. ^ Wester, Eelko (2 June 2020). "Door corona plots nog amper buitenlanders in de Hoofdklasse". hockey.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  6. ^ "Australian Olympic Team for Tokyo 2021". The Roar. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
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