Robert Haigh (field hockey)

Olympic medal record
Men's Hockey
Silver medal – second place 1968 Mexico City team
Silver medal – second place 1976 Montreal team

Robert "Herbie" Haigh is a former hockey player from Australia. He was a three-time Olympian, who won two Olympic silver medals as a member of the national team at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City and the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada.

He also competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, where the Australian team finished fifth.[1][2]

Since retiring as a player, he has worked closely with the Australian men's and women's national programs as an assistant coach and senior selector. He also spent a number of years as the South Australian Sports Institute head coach in charge of the men's and women's elite programs, and the Australian Hockey League coach of the SA Hotshots. He was an assistant coach to Ric Charlesworth with the Australian women's team, the Hockeyroos, during the golden era of Australian women's hockey[3] and in 2010 was a selector for the men's national team, the Kookaburras.

He was inducted into the Australian Hockey Hall of Fame in 2008[4] and South Australian Sport Hall of Fame in 2011.

  1. ^ "Hockey SA About Us - South Australian Olympians". Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  2. ^ Olympic results
  3. ^ Profile at Hockey.org.au Archived 27 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ 2008 Hall of Fame Inductees Archived 6 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine