England Men won the Bronze Medal match 2-1. James Tindall scored the winner 5 minutes into golden goal extra time. Barry Middleton created the opening for Nick Catlin to penetrate along the byline and his well timed pull back was rifled into the net by Tindall.
Although England took the lead in the 7th minute when Richard Mantell scored with his one and only penalty corner stroke opportunity of the Tournament, the Belgians came back strongly.
“We were clinging on for long periods,” admitted Jason Lee, the England Coach: “it was our poorest performance of the Tournament”.
Belgium equalised 8 minutes into the second half through Alexandre de Pauew and might have gone further ahead but for James Fair’s fine save from John-John Dohmen.
Reinvigorated by the switch of Alistair Wilson to the forward line, England finished normal time with stronger and might have avoided extra time if David Van Rysselberghe had not saved superbly from Richard Alexander.
Germany won the final in front of a full stadium beating The Netherlands 4-2. Philipp Zeller fired them into an early lead, and although Roderick Weusthof equalised with a scintillating strike from the edge of the circle, Germany were soon 2 goals ahead. Moritz Furste, the official player of the tournament, converted a penalty stroke and Florian Fuchs turned in a Thilo Stralkowski lob to give Germany a 3-1 lead. Teun de Nooijer pulled one back for the Dutch from a penalty corner but 2 minutes from time Oliver Korn touched in Martin Haner’s shot at Germany’s 8th and final corner.
Simon Mason, President of the English Hockey Board, presented the Chris Moore and Marjorie Pollard salvers for the English players of the Tournament to Barry Middleton and Helen Richardson respectively.
