Robin D'Abreo
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Robin D'Abreo is a Canadian field hockey
player, who earned his first international cap in 1993 against France
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The midfielder D'Abrero grew up with the sport in India where both his father (Ralph D'Abreo) and older brother played the game. It was only in Canada though that D'Abreo himself started playing competitively. He began with the Toronto Field Junior Jets at age thirteen. D'Abreo is married to former Canadian Women's National Team player Dana Anderson
.
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...
player, who earned his first international cap in 1993 against France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
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The midfielder D'Abrero grew up with the sport in India where both his father (Ralph D'Abreo) and older brother played the game. It was only in Canada though that D'Abreo himself started playing competitively. He began with the Toronto Field Junior Jets at age thirteen. D'Abreo is married to former Canadian Women's National Team player Dana Anderson
Dana Anderson
Dana Anderson is a former field hockey player from Canada.Anderson earned 57 caps for the Women's Senior National Team during her career. On national level Anderson, a resident of Etobicoke, Ontario, played for Ontario from age fifteen, and for the University of Toronto Varsity Blues from...
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International senior competitions
- 1993 - Intercontinental Cup, 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 Qualifier, Kuala Lumpur (5th)
- 1998 - World CupHockey World CupThe Hockey World Cup is an international field hockey competition organised by the International Hockey Federation . The tournament was started in 1971...
, Utrecht (8th) - 1998 - Commonwealth GamesCommonwealth GamesThe Commonwealth Games is an international, multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930 and takes place every four years....
, Kuala Lumpur (not ranked) - 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 - 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) - 2001 - World Cup Qualifier, Edinburgh (8th)
- 2002 - Indoor Pan American Cup, Rockville (1st and Tournament MVP)
- 2002 - Commonwealth GamesCommonwealth GamesThe Commonwealth Games is an international, multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930 and takes place every four years....
, Manchester (6th) - 2003 - Indoor World Cup, Leipzig (6th)
- 2003 - 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...
, Santo Domingo (2nd) - 2004 - Olympic Qualifying Tournament, Madrid (11th)
- 2004 - Pan Am Cup, London (2nd)
- 2006 - Commonwealth Games2006 Commonwealth GamesThe 2006 Commonwealth Games were held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia between 15 March and 26 March 2006. It was the largest sporting event to be staged in Melbourne, eclipsing the 1956 Summer Olympics in terms of the number of teams competing, athletes competing, and events being held.The site...
, Melbourne (9th)