Field Hockey Career
Jon Potter went on to represent Great Britain and England at the highest levels in field hockey. He has competed in three Olympic Games, winning bronze in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and, four years later, gold at the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul.
In total he has won 126 caps for Great Britain and 108 caps for England, scoring 41 international goals. He competed in 3 World Cups, winning a silver medal at the 1986 World Cup in London and in three European Cups, winning silver in Moscow (1987) and bronze in Paris (1991). With Great Britain he also captured two Champions Trophy medals – bronze in Karachi (1984) and silver in Perth (1985). With his club, Hounslow, he won the HA Cup four times and the National League title twice as well as leading them to European Cup Winners Cup victory in 1990.
He retired from international hockey in 1995 and was a Board Member of English Hockey Ltd from 2003 to 2007.
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