Andrew Griffiths
Encyclopedia
Andrew Griffiths is a former field hockey
forward from Canada
, who started playing hockey at age eight in Bermuda
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Griffiths represented England Under 16 before moving to Canada and joining the Senior Team of the North Americans. Grifiths scored the now famous winning goal against South Africa
in the 1997 World Cup Qualifying tournament: Canada came back from a 0-4 deficit to win the game 5-4 in the last seconds and the striker ended up sitting on the cross-bar. The resident of Toronto, Ontario created the Planet Field Hockey-website, originally called Off The Crossbar, together with teammates Alan Brahmst
and Hari Kant
.
Field hockey
Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
forward from Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, who started playing hockey at age eight in Bermuda
Bermuda
Bermuda is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, its nearest landmass is Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. It is about south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and northeast of Miami, Florida...
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Griffiths represented England Under 16 before moving to Canada and joining the Senior Team of the North Americans. Grifiths scored the now famous winning goal against South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
in the 1997 World Cup Qualifying tournament: Canada came back from a 0-4 deficit to win the game 5-4 in the last seconds and the striker ended up sitting on the cross-bar. The resident of Toronto, Ontario created the Planet Field Hockey-website, originally called Off The Crossbar, together with teammates Alan Brahmst
Alan Brahmst
Alan Brahmst is a former international and Olympic field hockey player from Canada.Brahmst earned his first international cap in 1986 for the Men's National Team against the Netherlands in Amstelveen...
and Hari Kant
Hari Kant
Hari Kant is a former field hockey goalkeeper from Canada.Kant started to play in the 1981 Ontario Summer Games, at age eleven, when opportunity to travel provided ample incentive to participate...
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International senior competitions
- 1989 – World Cup Qualifier, Madison, USA (2nd)
- 1990 – World Cup, Lahore (11th)
- 1991 – Pan American GamesPan American GamesThe Pan-American or Pan American Games are a major event in the Americas featuring summer and formerly winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Pan American Games are the second largest multi-sport event after the Summer Olympics...
, Havana (2nd) - 1991 – Olympic Qualifier, Auckland (6th)
- 1993 – World Cup Qualifier, Poznan (7th)
- 1995 – Pan American GamesPan American GamesThe Pan-American or Pan American Games are a major event in the Americas featuring summer and formerly winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Pan American Games are the second largest multi-sport event after the Summer Olympics...
, Mar del Plata (2nd) - 1996 – Olympic Qualifier, Barcelona (6th)
- 1996 – World Cup Preliminary, Sardinia (2nd)
- 1997 – World Cup Qualifier1997 Men's Hockey World Cup QualifierThe sixth Men's Hockey World Cup Qualifier for the World Cup in Utrecht, The Netherlands was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from Tuesday March 4 to Saturday March 15, 1997. Twelve nations took part, and they were divided into two groups of six in the preliminary round...
, Kuala Lumpur (5th) - 1998 – World Cup, Utrecht (8th)
- 1999 – Sultan Azlan Shah Cup, Kuala Lumpur (4th)
- 1999 – Pan American GamesHockey at the 1999 Pan American GamesThe Field Hockey Tournament at the 1999 Pan American Games was held on the pitch of the Kildonan East College near Winnipeg, Canada, from Saturday July 24 to Wednesday August 4. It served as a qualification tournament for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.-Umpires: Xavier Adell Cameron...
, Winnipeg (1st) - 2000 – Sultan Azlan Shah Cup, Kuala Lumpur (7th)
- 2000 – Americas Cup, Cuba (2nd)
- 2000 – Olympic Games2000 Summer OlympicsThe Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...
, Sydney (10th)