Jacob Draper
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Jacob Benjamin Draper | ||
| Born |
24 July 1998 Cwmbran, Wales | ||
| Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Pinoké | ||
| Senior career | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| Gwent HC | |||
| –2018 | Preston HC | ||
| 2018–2019 | Cardiff & Met | ||
| 2019–2021 | Hampstead & Westminster | ||
| 2021–2022 | Beerschot | ||
| 2022–2023 | Hampstead & Westminster | ||
| 2023–present | Pinoké[1] | ||
| National team | |||
| Years | Team | Caps | Goals |
| 2017–2019 | Wales & GB U21 | 15 | |
| 2016–present | Wales & GB | 66 | (2) |
| Last updated on: 18 June 2021 | |||
Jacob Benjamin Draper (born 24 July 1998) is a Welsh field hockey player who plays as a defender for Dutch Hoofdklasse club Pinoké and the Wales and Great Britain national teams.[2]
Club career
[edit]Draper will play for Belgian club Beerschot in the 2021–22 season.[3]
He has been playing club hockey in the Men's England Hockey League Premier Division for Hampstead & Westminster.
Prior to that he played for Cardiff & Met.
International career
[edit]Draper made his senior debut, aged 18, for Wales on 28 August 2016, in a 5–1 win over Austria in Vienna, Austria. He played for Wales at Hockey at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast[4] and 2019 Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship, where they finished 6th. [5] He was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2024 Summer Olympics.[6] The team went out in the quarter-finals after losing a penalty shootout to India.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Heren 1 versterkt zich met GB International Jacob Draper en Chiel van Oostendorp vanuit de jeugd" [Men 1 strengthened with GB International Jacob Draper and Chiel van Oostendorp from the youth]. pinoke.nl (in Dutch).
- ^ "Draper in line to make GB debut, Sanford returns from injury". Great Britain Hockey. 3 October 2019. Retrieved 9 October 2019.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Transferts : deux Britanniques au Beerschot" [Transfers: two Britons at Beerschot]. okey.lalibre.be (in French). 5 March 2021. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
- ^ "Athlete Profile: Jacob Draper". Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation. 2018. Archived from the original on 18 December 2022. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
- ^ "Senior Men's Programme". hockeywales.org.uk. Archived from the original on 18 June 2021. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
- ^ "GB hockey select Roper for fourth Olympic Games". bbc.com. BBC. 18 June 2024. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
- ^ "GB wait for men's hockey medal goes on after shootout heartbreak". BBC Sport. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
External links
[edit]- Jacob Draper at the International Hockey Federation
- Jacob Draper at Great Britain Hockey
- Jacob Draper at Hockey Wales
- Jacob Draper at Team GB
- Jacob Draper at Team Wales
- Jacob Draper at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
- Jacob Draper at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Jacob Draper on Instagram
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- 1998 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Cwmbran
- Welsh male field hockey players
- British male field hockey players
- Male field hockey defenders
- Hampstead & Westminster Hockey Club players
- Men's England Hockey League players
- Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Olympic field hockey players for Great Britain
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Wales
- Field hockey players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Field hockey players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Royal Beerschot THC players
- Men's Belgian Hockey League players
- 2023 Men's FIH Hockey World Cup players
- Pinoké players
- British expatriate field hockey players
- Welsh expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
- Welsh expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
- 21st-century British sportsmen
- English field hockey biography stubs