Julian Halls

Julian Halls is a British former field hockey player who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics and in the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Biography

Halls played club hockey for Old Loughtonians in the Men's [England Hockey League], becoming the club captain. He appeared at the 1990 Men's Hockey World Cup and the 1994 Men's Hockey World Cup and played for Old Loughtonians until they lost him for the best part of 1995, when he switched to play his club hockey for Canberra in Australia.
Returning to Old Loughtonians, Halls represented Great [Britain at the 1996 Summer Olympics|Great Britain] at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta before going the Netherlands to play for Haagsche Delftsche Mixed.
He represented England and won a bronze medal in the Hockey at the [1998 Commonwealth Games – Men's tournament|men's hockey], at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur. Shortly after the Commonwealth Games, Halls made his Cannock debut in October 1988.
While at Cannock, Halls represented Great Britain at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. After the Olympics, Halls joined St Albans as a player coach for the 2000/01 season.
At international retirement he had won 59 caps for Great Britain men's national [field hockey team|Great Britain] and 125 caps for England and returned to Old Loughtonians as Director of Coaching in 2010.