Trent Grant Mitton (born 26 November 1990) is an Australian

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player who plays for the WA Thundersticks and the Kookaburras. Mitton is a striker. Mitton first joined the Australian team as part of the 19-member Champions Trophy squad at the 2010 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy in

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. He is part of the Australian team at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in

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. His father is Grant Mitton who represented Australia at the

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and his grandfather is Don Mitton who did likewise in New Zealand in 1958. Mitton plays for the WA Thundersticks in the Australian Hockey League. He played for the team in the first found of the 2011 season. In December 2011, Mitton was named as one of fourteen players to be on the

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Australian men's national Olympic development squad. While this squad is not in the top twenty-eight and separate from the Olympic training coach, the Australian coach Ric Charlesworth did not rule out selecting from only the training squad, with players from the Olympic development having a chance at possibly being called up to represent Australia at the Olympics. He trained with the team from 18 January to mid-March in

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Personal

Trent Mitton spends his days away from hockey working as a sport teacher at Chisholm Catholic College.

Achievements

Mitton was selected in the Kookaburras Olympics squad for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The team reached the final for the first time since 2004 but couldn't achieve gold, beaten by Belgium in a shootout.

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* * (2010) * (2014) * * * Australian male field hockey players Field hockey players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games 1990 births Living people Field hockey people from Western Australia Field hockey players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia Commonwealth Games gold medallists in field hockey Hockey India League players Australian expatriate field hockey players Australian expatriate sportspeople in India 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup players Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic field hockey players for Australia Male field hockey forwards Olympic silver medalists for Australia Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in field hockey Sportsmen from Western Australia Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games 21st-century Australian sportsmen {{Australia-fieldhockey-bio-stub