Robert Haigh
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Robert "Herbie" Haigh is a former hockey player from Australia. He was a three-time Olympian, who won two Olympic silver medals as a member of the national team at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City and the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada.
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1968 Mexico City | team | |
1976 Montreal | team |
He also competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, where the Australian team finished fifth.[1][2]
Since retiring as a player, he has worked closely with the Australian men's and women's national programs as an assistant coach and senior selector. He also spent a number of years as the South Australian Sports Institute head coach in charge of the men's and women's elite programs, and the Australian Hockey League coach of the SA Hotshots. He was an assistant coach to Ric Charlesworth with the Australian women's team, the Hockeyroos, during the golden era of Australian women's hockey[3] and in 2010 was a selector for the men's national team, the Kookaburras.
He was inducted into the Australian Hockey Hall of Fame in 2008[4] and South Australian Sport Hall of Fame in 2011.