Michael Corby (field hockey)

Michael Wells Corby (born 18 February 1940) is a British field hockey and squash player who competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics in Hockey.^[1]

Michael Corby

Personal information
Born	(1940-02-18) 18 February 1940 (age 85)
Height	181 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	71 kg (157 lb)
Senior career
Years	Team
1959–1974	Hounslow
1975–1978	Southgate
National team
Years	Team	Caps	Goals
	England & Great Britain
Medal record Men's squash Representing  Great Britain World Team Championships 1969 Midlands Team 1971 Auckland Team Representing  England European Team Championships 1975 Dublin Team

Biography

Corby attended Mill Hill School in North London.

Corby played club hockey for Hounslow Hockey Club and while at the club represented Great Britain at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo^[2] and was again a member of the Great Britain team at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.^[3]

Corby played squash at the same time and represented the England men's national squash team at the 1967, 1969 and the 1971 World Team Squash Championships.^[4] Corby won a gold medal for the England at the 1975 European Squash Team Championships in Dublin.^[5][6]

In 1975 Corby was voted top amateur sportsman of Great Britain^[7] and left Hounslow to join the Southgate Hockey Club team. He was part of the team that won the EuroHockey Club Champions Cup for three successive years in 1976, 1977 and 1978.^[8]