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Colin Whalley
English sportsman From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Colin James Campbell Whalley (born 8 March 1941) is an English former field hockey player who represented the Great Britain men's national field hockey team at the 1968 Summer Olympics.[1][2]
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Biography
He played hockey for Lancashire 153 times, and appeared for England 49 times.[2]
He played club hockey for Hightown Hockey Club in the Men's England Hockey League and became their club captain.[3]
While at Hightown he played for England at the 1973 Men's Hockey World Cup in Amstelveen.[4] He was also selected by England for the 1975 Men's Hockey World Cup in Kuala Lumpur[5][6]
In 1978, he became an England selector[7] and later became the manager of the England in 1980.[8] He managed the team during the 1986 Men's Hockey World Cup, with England finishing as runners-up.[2]
Whalley also played cricket at minor counties level for Cheshire from 1962–1965, making three appearances in the Minor Counties Championship.[9]
He was a bank manager by trade.[10]
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