Jon Potter

{{Infobox field hockey player

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| caption = Potter in 2003

| full_name = Jonathan Nicholas Mark Potter

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1963|11|19}}

| birth_place = Paddington, London, England

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Jonathan Nicholas Mark Potter (born 19 November 1963) is the managing director of the House of Suntory and Maison Courvoisier at Suntory Global Spirits . He is a former field hockey player who was a member of the gold-winning Great Britain squad at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.

Background

Potter was born in Paddington, Greater London, in an Anglo-Indian family and brought up in Slough, England.{{cite web|url=http://archive.asianage.com/other-sports/when-anglo-indians-were-kings-hockey-259 |title=When Anglo-Indians were kings in hockey |website=The Asian Age |date=17 February 2012 |access-date=15 August 2024 }}{{Cite web |title=Jon Potter |url=https://www.teamgb.com/athlete/jon-potter/7JYY4TqBSS2ewAmbTBuTtK |access-date=2023-07-26 |website=www.teamgb.com |language=en-gb}} He attended Burnham Grammar School from 1976 to 1982, and represented Slough and Buckinghamshire Schools at soccer, the South of England Schoolboys, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire Minor Counties at cricket, as well as England Schoolboys at field hockey.{{fact|date=September 2018}}

Potter graduated from Southampton University in 1986 with a BA (Hons) in geography, and attended Aston Business School (1986–87) to obtain his MBA.

Field hockey career

Jon Potter represented Great Britain and England in field hockey. He competed in three Olympic Games, earning a bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and a gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.{{cite Sports-Reference |title=Jon Potter |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/po/jon-potter-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418040929/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/po/jon-potter-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |accessdate=26 May 2012}}{{cite web |title=Remembering the boys of 86 – Sports Journalists' Association |website=sportsjournalists.co.uk |url=http://www.sportsjournalists.co.uk/sports-digest/remembering-the-boys-of-86/ |date=17 October 2006 |accessdate=20 November 2014}}

In total Potter won 126 caps for Great Britain and 108 caps for England, scoring 41 international goals. He competed in 3 World Cups, winning a silver medal at the Hockey World Cup in 1986 in London, and in three European Cups, winning silver in Moscow (1987) and bronze in Paris (1991). He also captured two Champions Trophy medals with Great Britain – bronze in Karachi (1984) and silver in Perth (1985).{{fact|date=September 2018}}

He played club hockey with Hounslow Hockey Club, where he helped the men's 1XI win the European Cup Winners Cup in 1990 and won the HA Cup four times as well as the National League title twice.{{cite web |title=Hounslow & Ealing Hockey Club : Club History |website=hounslow.uklinux.net |url=http://www.hounslow.uklinux.net/history.php |accessdate=20 November 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129224408/http://www.hounslow.uklinux.net/history.php |archivedate=29 November 2014 }}

He retired from international hockey in 1995 and was a board member of England Hockey Ltd from 2003 to 2007.{{fact|date=September 2018}}