Simon Douglas Mantell (born 24 April 1984) is an English

field hockey Field hockey (or simply referred to as hockey in some countries where ice hockey is not popular) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalk ...

forward. He is the younger brother of

Richard Mantell Richard Bryce Mantell (born 17 August 1981) is an English former field hockey defender who competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He is the older brother of Simon Mantell. Biography Mantell was born in Bridgwater, Somerset, and studied at th ...

. He competed at the

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and

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i ...

Biography

Mantell was born in

Bridgwater Bridgwater is a historic market town and civil parish in Somerset, England. The town had a population of 41,276 at the 2021 census. Bridgwater is at the edge of the Somerset Levels, in level and well-wooded country. The town lies along both sid ...

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and educated at

Millfield School Millfield is a public school (English fee-charging boarding and day school for pupils aged 13–18) located in Street, Somerset, England. It was founded in 1935. Millfield is a registered charity and is the largest co-educational boarding s ...

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and studied at the

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. Mantell played club hockey for Firebrands in Bristol before switching to

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in the

Men's England Hockey League The Men's England Hockey League is a field hockey league organised by England Hockey that features men's teams from England and Wales. Format Regular season There are 62 teams in the league, the top tier consists of a Premier Division of ...

. He made his international senior debut for the national squad on 9 November 2005 against

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at Beeston. He was a member of the

England England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It ...

squad that finished fifth at the 2006 Men's Hockey World Cup. He competed for England at the

2006 Commonwealth Games The 2006 Commonwealth Games, officially the XVIII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Melbourne 2006, were an International sport, international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth held in Melbourne ...

and also represented

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and was part of the side that returned victorious from the Olympic qualifying event in Chile, as well as competing at the

in Beijing. After the Olympics, Mantell had one season playing in the Netherlands for

HGC HGC can stand for: *Harvard Glee Club *Hercules Graphics Card *HGC (field hockey), a Dutch field hockey club located in Wassenaar, South Holland on the border of The Hague *HGC Global Communications HGC Global Communications Limited, formerly k ...

before returning to Reading at the start of the 2009/10 season. He was part of the winning squad at the

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

EuroHockey Championship, represented England in the

2010 Commonwealth Games The 2010 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XIX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Delhi 2010, were an international multi-sport event for the members of the Commonwealth that was held in Delhi, India, from 3 to 14 October 201 ...

in Delhi and competed at the

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and

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

Champions Trophy. Still at Reading, Mantell represented England in the

2014 Commonwealth Games The 2014 Commonwealth Games (), officially known as the XX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Glasgow 2014 (; ), were an international multi-sport event celebrated in the tradition of the Commonwealth Games as governed by the Commonwea ...

in Glasgow, where he won a bronze medal. In 2016, Mantell joined

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and at the end of 2016, Mantell announced his international retirement.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mantell, Simon 1984 births Living people People educated at Millfield English male field hockey players Male field hockey forwards Field hockey players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games 2006 Men's Hockey World Cup players Field hockey players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Field hockey players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games 2014 Men's Hockey World Cup players Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic field hockey players for Great Britain British male field hockey players Sportspeople from Bridgwater Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in field hockey Reading Hockey Club players HGC (field hockey) players Wimbledon Hockey Club players English expatriate field hockey players Hockey India League players University of Birmingham Hockey Club players Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games English male indoor hockey players 2011 FIH Indoor Hockey World Cup players 21st-century English sportsmen