Oliver Kurtz is a former field hockey

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 forward from Germany

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, who won the gold medal with the Men's National Team

Germany national field hockey team

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 at the 1992 Summer Olympics

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 in Barcelona, Spain. He was suspended for two years from international hockey for returning a positive test to cocaine at a pre-Olympic tournament in Atlanta in early 1996. His brother Christian Kurtz also played for the national side.

After his active career Kurtz became a hockey coach who, on May 24, 2004, was appointed assistant coach of the Indian National Men's Team

India national field hockey team

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 after a poor showing by India in the 2004 Men's Hockey Olympic Qualifier, alongside countryman and head coach Gerhard Rach for the 2004 Summer Olympics

2004 Summer Olympics

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