Charles Atkin

Charles Sydney Atkin was a British field hockey player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the British field hockey team which won the gold medal.

Biography

Atkin was educated at Marlborough College and studied at Caius College, Cambridge, where he won a blue in 1909 and 1910 during the varsity match against Oxford. After university he took a position as a medical student at St Bartholomew's Hospital.
He played club hockey for Beckenham and represented Kent at county level. He made his debut for England in 1913, playing three matches before World War I interrupted his career. He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps with the rank of captain.
After the war he joined the family medical practice in Sheffield and at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp he played as a left back during the hockey competition. His final international appearance was against Ireland in 1921.