Charles Atkin
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| Born | 26 February 1889 Sheffield, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 9 May 1958 (aged 69) Sheffield, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Field hockey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Full-back | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Charles Sydney Atkin (26 February 1889 – 9 May 1958) was a British field hockey player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.[1] He was a member of the British field hockey team which won the gold medal.[2]
Biography
[edit]Atkin was educated at Marlborough College and studied at Caius College, Cambridge, where he won a blue in 1909 and 1910 during the varsity match against Oxford. After university, he became a medical student at St Bartholomew's Hospital.[3]
He played club hockey for Beckenham and represented Kent at county level.[4] He made his debut for England in 1913, playing three matches before World War I interrupted his career. He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps as a captain.[3]
After the war, he joined the family medical practice in Sheffield, and at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, he played as a left back during the hockey competition. His final international appearance was against Ireland in 1921.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Charles Atkin". Olympedia. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
- ↑ "Olympic medal database". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
- 1 2 3 "Biographical Information". Olympedia. Retrieved 24 July 2025.
- ↑ "Kent v Essex". Sporting Life. 15 November 1910. Retrieved 24 July 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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