Martyn Grimley
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Martyn Andrew Grimley (born 24 February 1963) is a British former field hockey player who competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics, where he won a gold medal.[1]
Biography
Grimley was born in Halifax, England and played club hockey for Brooklands Hockey Club in the Men's England Hockey League and represented Cheshire at county level.[2]
He was selected for the England U16 and U21 squads and was shortlisted for the 1984 Summer Olympics but failed to make the final cut before gaining a position at Banbury School in Oxfordshire as a Physical Education teacher in September 1985, following his training at Crewe and Alsager College. The new job resulted in him moving from Sale to Banbury [3]
While at Brooklands he represented England at the 1986 Men's Hockey World Cup, winning silver.[4] He signed for Hounslow Hockey Club for the start of the 1987/88 season and would go on to win gold with the Great Britain squad at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.[5][6]
Later, he taught geography, Physical Education and Outdoor Education at Dulwich College in London and after returning from the Olympics in 1988 he joined Zurich Financial Services.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Still at Hounslow, he represented England at the 1990 Men's Hockey World Cup.[7]
In 1992, he returned to the Manchester area to live in Ashton upon Mersey and re-joined his former team Brooklands after the 1992 season and would become player coach in 1996.[8] After retiring from international competition he had earned a combined total of 178 international caps for England and Great Britain.
He has sinceScript error: No such module "Unsubst". become a company director running a Cheshire - based financial services business 'Warriner & Co Ltd'.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". He is a life member of Brooklands Manchester University Hockey Club.[9]
In 2018 he became Cheshire seniors strokeplay golf champion with a first time victory at Bromborough Golf Club and also won the Cheshire seniors matchplay championship in 2019.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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