HO-GARCIA Gabriel Wing-Chuen

Date of Birth: 19 May 1993

Age: 28

Gender: Male

Height (m/ft): 1.70/5'6''

Place of birth: BURNABY, BC

Birth Country:

Canada

Place of residence : BURNABY, BC

Residence Country:

Canada

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Hockey	Men CAN Canada	12

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Oi Hockey Stadium - South Pitch	Men's Pool B #M06 CAN Canada 1 GER Germany 7	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - North Pitch	Men's Pool B #M12 GBR Great Britain 3 CAN Canada 1	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - North Pitch	Men's Pool B #M18 NED Netherlands 4 CAN Canada 2	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - South Pitch	Men's Pool B #M22 BEL Belgium 9 CAN Canada 1	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - South Pitch	Men's Pool B #M26 CAN Canada 4 RSA South Africa 4	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
11	Men	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA

Rank	Event	Year	Location
11	Men	2018	Bhubaneswar, IND

Gabe, Tubesteak (canadianathletesnow.ca, 01 Oct 2015; olympic.ca, 22 Oct 2015)

Occupation:

Finance, Marketing - Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, CAN

Languages spoken:

English, French, Spanish

Paul Bundy [national]

Position style:

Forward (fieldhockey.ca, 02 Mar 2016)

2011 for Canada, in Johannesburg, South Africa (fih.ch, 28 Nov 2011)

He began playing hockey at age eight. (fieldhockey.ca, 22 Nov 2011)

He played football, but wanted to play a sport in the spring so he did not have to sit around at home. He tried a few sports, but his mum decided that they did not involve enough running, so a friend recommended that he tried hockey. "I wasn't bad, so I decided to keep at it, and now I'm blessed to be able to represent Canada." (fieldhockey.ca, 22 Nov 2011; canadianathletesnow.ca, 01 Oct 2015; olympic.ca, 22 Oct 2015)

Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo. (olympic.ca, 22 Oct 2015)

Philosophy:

"Mistakes always occur in a game, it's how you recover from your mistakes that defines you as a player." (canadianathletesnow.ca, 01 Oct 2015)

He was named in the Pan American Hockey Federation's 2015 Elite Team. (fieldhockey.ca, 24 Feb 2016)

He was named Best Junior Player at the 2014 Champions Challenge in Kuantan, Malaysia. (southasianobserver.com, 09 May 2014)

General Interest

General
STUDYING IN SPAIN
In 2019 he studied for a master's in management at IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. During his year there he played hockey full-time for Club de Campo Villa de Madrid while studying. "Combining academics with athletics pushed me to the fullest, forcing me to not only make efficient use of my time, but also to take good mental and physical care of myself to promote personal success." (LinkedIn profile, 06 Jan 2020)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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