Colin Batch
4th 1984 Los Angeles Team
4th 1988 Seoul Team
5th 2012 London Team
4th 2011 Mönchengladbach Team
Colin Batch (born 27 March 1958 in Melbourne, Victoria) is a professional international field hockey coach and former international player from Australia. Batch is the head coach of the Australian Men's national hockey team the Kookaburras following his appointment on Tuesday 6th December 2016. He was the head coach of the New Zealand Men's national hockey team the Black Sticks between 2013-2016. Prior to this he was the head coach of the Belgium Men's national hockey team the Red Lions from 2010–2012. From 2001–2008 he was the assistant coach of the most successful Australian Men's national hockey team the Kookaburras in history. During this era Australia broke their Olympic hoodoo winning the Gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics as well as Bronze at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Silver at the 2002 and 2006 World Cups, Gold at the 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games and Gold at the 2005 and 2008 Champions Trophies.
Batch competed in 175 international matches for Australia between 1979 and 1990.
Australia:
1979–90 - Australian Team Representative (1987–1988 Vice Captain)
World Cup: Gold: 1986, Bronze: 1982, 1990
Olympic Games: 4th place: 1984, 1988, Boycott: 1980
Champions Trophy: Gold: 1983, 1984, 1985, 1989, Silver: 1981, 1982, 1986, Bronze: 1980, 1987, 1988
Batch held the record for the fastest hat-trick in Champions Trophy history from 1980–2009 with an 8-minute hat-trick against the Netherlands in a 7-3 win during the 1980 tournament. The record was beaten in 2009 when Nam Hyun-Woo scored a 7-minute hat-trick to secure Korea a 4-3 win over Spain.
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