Richard Petherick

{{Short description|New Zealand field hockey player}}

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{{BLP sources|date=July 2010}}

Richard Petherick (born 4 April 1986) is a field hockey player from New Zealand. While at Hamilton Boys' High School Petherick played for regional and national representative teams. He earned his first cap for the national men's team, nicknamed The Black Sticks, in 2005 against Malaysia. He also gained selection for both the Sultan Azlan Shah tournament in May and for the European tour in July.

Petherick travelled as a reserve to the 2008 Summer Olympics but did not compete.{{cite web|title=Richard Petherick|date=9 February 2016 |url=http://olympic.org.nz/athletes/richard-petherick/|publisher=New Zealand Olympic Committee|access-date=14 January 2017}} He competed for New Zealand at the 2012 Summer Olympics.{{cite Sports-Reference |title=Richard Petherick |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pe/richard-petherick-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418122203/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pe/richard-petherick-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-18 |access-date=2016-02-17}}