Bevan David Hari is a field hockey

Field hockey

Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

 striker from New Zealand

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 finished in sixth position with the Men's National Team, nickname

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d Black Sticks, at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Field hockey at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Field 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...

 in Athens, Greece. He made his international senior debut in 1997, and fought hard to come back from a serious knee injury which required reconstruction surgery in late 2003. The injury forced him to miss the 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Madrid. Hari played his 150th game for New Zealand in Fiji

Fiji

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during the Oceania Cup series in November 2004.