Welsh field hockey player
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.
International career
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]
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