Field hockey player and businessman
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Jonathan Nicholas Mark Potter (born 19 November 1963) is the managing director of the House of Suntory and Maison Courvoisier at Suntory Global Spirits . He is a former field hockey player who was a member of the gold-winning Great Britain squad at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
Background
Potter was born in Paddington, Greater London, in an Anglo-Indian family and brought up in Slough, England. He attended Burnham Grammar School from 1976 to 1982, and represented Slough and Buckinghamshire Schools at soccer, the South of England Schoolboys, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire Minor Counties at cricket, as well as England Schoolboys at field hockey.
Potter graduated from Southampton University in 1986 with a BA (Hons) in geography, and attended Aston Business School (1986–87) to obtain his MBA.
Field hockey career
Jon Potter represented Great Britain and England in field hockey. He competed in three Olympic Games, earning a bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and a gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
In total Potter won 126 caps for Great Britain and 108 caps for England, scoring 41 international goals. He competed in 3 World Cups, winning a silver medal at the Hockey World Cup in 1986 in London, and in three European Cups, winning silver in Moscow (1987) and bronze in Paris (1991). He also captured two Champions Trophy medals with Great Britain – bronze in Karachi (1984) and silver in Perth (1985).
He played club hockey with Hounslow Hockey Club, where he helped the men's 1XI win the European Cup Winners Cup in 1990 and won the HA Cup four times as well as the National League title twice.
He retired from international hockey in 1995 and was a board member of England Hockey Ltd from 2003 to 2007.
References
- "When Anglo-Indians were kings in hockey". The Asian Age. 17 February 2012. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
- ^ "Jon Potter". www.teamgb.com. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jon Potter". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 26 May 2012.
- "Remembering the boys of 86 – Sports Journalists' Association". sportsjournalists.co.uk. 17 October 2006. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
- "Hounslow & Ealing Hockey Club : Club History". hounslow.uklinux.net. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
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Categories:
- 1963 births
- Living people
- English male field hockey players
- English Olympic competitors
- Olympic field hockey players for Great Britain
- British male field hockey players
- Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
- Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain
- Field hockey players at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Alumni of the University of Southampton
- Olympic medalists in field hockey
- British people of Anglo-Indian descent
- People educated at Burnham Grammar School
- Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- 1990 Men's Hockey World Cup players