Paul Woolford
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Paul Matthew Woolford is a field hockey player from New Zealand
, who earned his first cap for the national team, nickname
d The Black Sticks, in 1999. He won a silver medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
in Manchester
. Woolford has more than fifty caps to his name and plays national league hockey for Auckland.
Woolford has been The Kiwi's number one goalkeeper since 2002. He won 2004 New Zealand Player of the Year. His ability to put pressure on some of the best flickers in the world has earned New Zealand one of the best international defensive penalty corner records. Woolford’s reactions are very quick.
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
, who earned his first cap for the national team, nickname
Nickname
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d The Black Sticks, in 1999. He won a silver medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
2002 Commonwealth Games
The 2002 Commonwealth Games were held in Manchester, England from 25 July to 4 August 2002. The XVII Commonwealth Games was the largest multi-sport event ever to be held in the UK, eclipsing London's 1948 Summer Olympics in numbers of teams and athletes participating.After the 1996 Manchester...
in Manchester
Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
. Woolford has more than fifty caps to his name and plays national league hockey for Auckland.
Woolford has been The Kiwi's number one goalkeeper since 2002. He won 2004 New Zealand Player of the Year. His ability to put pressure on some of the best flickers in the world has earned New Zealand one of the best international defensive penalty corner records. Woolford’s reactions are very quick.
International senior tournaments
- 2000 – Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
- 2000 – Olympic Qualifying Tournament
- 2001 – World Cup Qualifier
- 2002 – World Cup2002 Men's Hockey World CupThe 2002 Hockey World Cup for men is the 10th tournament of the Hockey World Cup, held from February 24 to March 9, 2002 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...
- 2002 – Commonwealth Games2002 Commonwealth GamesThe 2002 Commonwealth Games were held in Manchester, England from 25 July to 4 August 2002. The XVII Commonwealth Games was the largest multi-sport event ever to be held in the UK, eclipsing London's 1948 Summer Olympics in numbers of teams and athletes participating.After the 1996 Manchester...
- 2003 – Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
- 2003 – Champions Challenge2003 Men's Champions Challenge (field hockey)The 2003 Men's Champions Challenge is the second tournament of the Champions Challenge, which took place in Johannesburg, South Africa from July 19 to July 27, 2003.Participating nations were England, Malaysia, New Zealand, Spain, host South Africa, and Korea...
- 2004 – Olympic Qualifying Tournament
- 2004 – Summer OlympicsField hockey at the 2004 Summer OlympicsField Hockey at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held at the Olympic Hockey Centre located within the Helliniko Olympic Complex. The competitions for both men and women was split into two groups with the top two teams after the preliminary rounds progressing through to the semi-finals.-Men's...
- 2004 – Champions Trophy2004 Men's Champions Trophy (field hockey)The 2004 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy took place in the National Hockey Stadium in Lahore, Pakistan from December 4 to December 12, 2004.- :Head Coach: Bernhard Peters# Ulrich Bubolz # Adrian Kühn # Ulrich Klaus# Philipp Crone...
- 2005 – Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
- 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...
- 2006 – World Cup
- 2007 – Champions Challenge2007 Men's Hockey Champions ChallengeThe 2007 Men's Hockey Champions Challenge was the fourth edition of the bi-annual Champions Challenge. It took place in Boom, Belgium from June 23 to July 1, 2007....
- 2008 – Olympic GamesField hockey at the 2008 Summer OlympicsField hockey at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing was held over a fourteen day period beginning on August 10, and culminating with the medal finals on August 22 and August 23...