James Elmer
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "For". Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Template:Infobox sportsperson
James Andrew "Jimmy" Elmer (born 8 May 1971[1] in Melbourne, Victoria) is a former field hockey striker from Australia, who was a member of the team that won the bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney
He was nicknamed Jimmy by his teammates. Elmer made his senior debut for The Kookaburras in 1993. He played in every Champions Trophy since 1991, but always missed "the big ones", until the Sydney Games. There he finished his career after 102 international matches, in which he scored 30 goals.
James is currently captain for Doncaster in the Victorian Masters League A grade division. His team suffered a 5–4 loss to the Hawthorn Hockey Club in the 2012 grand final following extra time in a penalty goal shoot-out. James took the 4th of 5 penalties for his team, which was saved by the Hawthorn keeper Corey Blake.
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
External links
- Pages with script errors
- 1986 births
- Australian male field hockey players
- Olympic field hockey players for Australia
- Olympic bronze medalists for Australia
- Field hockey players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players from Melbourne
- Living people
- Olympic medalists in field hockey
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games field hockey players for Australia
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists in field hockey
- Field hockey players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- 21st-century Australian sportsmen
- Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Sportsmen from Victoria (state)