Daniel Kyriakides (born 21 March 1995) is a Welsh international

field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shootin ...

player who plays as a midfielder or defender for

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and

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. James Kyriakides is his elder brother.

Club career

Kyriakides plays club hockey in the

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Premier Division for Hampstead & Westminster, whom he joined from Cardiff & Met. He has also played in the

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for Crefelder HTC and for

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and Swansea City HC.

International career

He made his senior GB debut against India on 29 April 2017. He represented

in the

2014 Commonwealth Games The 2014 Commonwealth Games ( gd, Geamannan a' Cho-fhlaitheis 2014), officially known as the XX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Glasgow 2014, ( sco, Glesca 2014 or Glesga 2014; gd, Glaschu 2014), was an international multi-sport ev ...

2018 Commonwealth games The 2018 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXI Commonwealth Games and also known as Gold Coast 2018, was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth that were held on the Gold Coast, ...

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* * * 1995 births Living people Welsh male field hockey players British male field hockey players Male field hockey defenders Male field hockey midfielders Field hockey players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for Wales Hampstead & Westminster Hockey Club players Reading Hockey Club players Men's England Hockey League players Expatriate field hockey players Welsh expatriate sportspeople in Germany 2023 Men's FIH Hockey World Cup players {{Wales-sport-bio-stub