CLAXTON Jane-Anne

Date of Birth: 26 Oct 1992

Age: 28

Gender: Female

Place of birth: ADELAIDE, SA

Birth Country:

Australia

Place of residence : PERTH, WA

Residence Country:

Australia

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Hockey	Women AUS Australia	5

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Oi Hockey Stadium - South Pitch	Women's Pool B #W04 AUS Australia 3 ESP Spain 1	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - South Pitch	Women's Pool B #W08 AUS Australia 6 CHN China 0	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - North Pitch	Women's Pool B #W17 JPN Japan 0 AUS Australia 1	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - South Pitch	Women's Pool B #W22 NZL New Zealand 0 AUS Australia 1	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - North Pitch	Women's Pool B #W27 ARG Argentina 0 AUS Australia 2	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - North Pitch	Women's Quarter-final #W34 AUS Australia 0 IND India 1	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
6	Women	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA

Rank	Event	Year	Location
2	Women	2014	The Hague, NED

FIH Pro League

Rank	Event	Year	Location
2	Women	2019
5	Women	2020

Champions Trophy

Rank	Event	Year	Location
2	Women	2018	Changzhou, CHN

Oceania Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Women	2017	Sydney, NSW, AUS
2	Women	2019	Rockhampton, QLD, AUS

Occupation:

Athlete, Occupational Therapist

Occupational Therapy - Curtin University, Perth, WA, AUS

Languages spoken:

Adelaide Fire [Australia]

Melody Cooper [club], NZL; Katrina Powell [national], AUS

Position style:

Midfielder (hockey.org.au, 13 Dec 2015)

Sporting relatives:

Her father Bob has served as secretary of the Oceania Hockey Federation, played for the Australian men's 60+ team and also coached Australia's men's 65+ team at the 2014 Grand Masters World Cup in The Hague, Netherlands. (thesaturdaypaper.com.au, 03 Nov 2018; gohockey.com, 28 Jun 2014; hockey.org.au, 13 Dec 2015)

Other sports:

She represented South Australia in cross-country running and athletics, and competed at district level in netball, tennis and swimming before committing to hockey. (abc.net.au, 06 May 2014)

2013 for Australia Against Republic of Korea, in Perth, Australia (hockey.org.au, 16 Apr 2013)

She sustained a serious hamstring injury in 2018 forcing her to miss the 2018 World Cup in London, England. (adelaidenow.com.au, 29 Oct 2018)

She broke her left hand competing at the 2016 Trans-Tasman Trophy in Auckland, New Zealand. (sasi.sa.gov.au, 24 Nov 2016)

National league:

Hockey One [AUS] (newsmaker.com.au, 21 Apr 2019)

She began playing hockey at age six. (hockey.org.au, 13 Dec 2015)

Her father and her brother both played and encouraged her to take up the sport. "I did a lot of cross-country, athletics and swimming but I found that you just got so isolated. So I gravitated towards a team sport and hockey was in my family so I did that." (thesaturdaypaper.com.au, 03 Nov 2018; youtube.com, 24 Apr 2013; hockey.org.au, 13 Dec 2015)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (thesaturdaypaper.com.au, 03 Nov 2018)

Australian hockey player Melanie Twitt, Australian short track speed skater Stephen Bradbury. (hockey.org.au, 13 Dec 2015)

She was named the 2018 Hockeyroos Player of the Year by Hockey Australia. (adelaidenow.com.au, 29 Oct 2018)

She was named South Australian Sports Institute Junior Female Athlete of the Year in 2013. (hockey.org.au, 13 Dec 2015)

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Legend

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

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