James Elmer
Encyclopedia
James "Jimmy" Andrew Elmer (born 8 May 1971 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 nickname
d Jimmy by his team mates, and was considered as an exceptionally skilful player with good endurance and speed. Elmer made his senior debut for The Kookaburras in 1993. He played in every Champions Trophy since 1996, but always missed "the big ones", until the Sydney Games. There he finished his career after 102 international matches, in which he scored 28 goals.
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 Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, who was a member of the team that won the bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics
2000 Summer Olympics
The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...
in Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
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He was nickname
Nickname
A nickname is "a usually familiar or humorous but sometimes pointed or cruel name given to a person or place, as a supposedly appropriate replacement for or addition to the proper name.", or a name similar in origin and pronunciation from the original name....
d Jimmy by his team mates, and was considered as an exceptionally skilful player with good endurance and speed. Elmer made his senior debut for The Kookaburras in 1993. He played in every Champions Trophy since 1996, but always missed "the big ones", until the Sydney Games. There he finished his career after 102 international matches, in which he scored 28 goals.