Jacob Draper

Jacob Benjamin Draper (born 24 July 1998) is a Welsh field hockey player who plays as a defender for Dutch Hoofdklasse club Pinoké and the Wales and Great Britain national teams.^[2]

Club career

Draper will play for Belgian club Beerschot in the 2021–22 season.^[3]

He has been playing club hockey in the Men's England Hockey League Premier Division for Hampstead & Westminster.

Prior to that he played for Cardiff & Met.

Draper made his senior debut, aged 18, for Wales on 28 August 2016, in a 5–1 win over Austria in Vienna, Austria. He played for Wales at Hockey at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast^[4] and 2019 Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship, where they finished 6th. ^[5] He was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2024 Summer Olympics.^[6] The team went out in the quarter-finals after losing a penalty shootout to India.^[7]

^ "Heren 1 versterkt zich met GB International Jacob Draper en Chiel van Oostendorp vanuit de jeugd" [Men 1 strengthened with GB International Jacob Draper and Chiel van Oostendorp from the youth]. pinoke.nl (in Dutch).
^ "Draper in line to make GB debut, Sanford returns from injury". Great Britain Hockey. 3 October 2019. Retrieved 9 October 2019.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "Transferts : deux Britanniques au Beerschot" [Transfers: two Britons at Beerschot]. okey.lalibre.be (in French). 5 March 2021. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
^ "Athlete Profile: Jacob Draper". Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation. 2018. Archived from the original on 18 December 2022. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
^ "Senior Men's Programme". hockeywales.org.uk. Archived from the original on 18 June 2021. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
^ "GB hockey select Roper for fourth Olympic Games". bbc.com. BBC. 18 June 2024. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
^ "GB wait for men's hockey medal goes on after shootout heartbreak". BBC Sport. Retrieved 9 August 2024.