Chris Spice
Chris Spice OBE (born 25 December 1959[1]) is a British-Australian sports executive, currently Performance Director for British Swimming, and a former field hockey player for Australia.
Early life
He was born in Brisbane, the youngest of six children. People in his family played top-tier sport.
He played field hockey for Queensland and Australia.
Career
Field hockey
In the early 1990s he became a coach for the Australian women's field hockey team, working under Ric Charlesworth. The team won the World Cup in 1994 and the Olympic gold medal in 1996.
After the Olympics he became Performance Director for the English Hockey Association (England Hockey) in 1997, and joined the Great Britain team in 1998, taking the teams to the Olympics in 2000, where the men finished sixth and the women finished eighth.
Basketball
In 2007 he became Performance Director for British Basketball, being responsible for the team at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Swimming
He became the Performance Director for British Swimming, taking the team to the Olympics in 2016 and 2021.
Spice was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to swimming and high performance sport.[2]
See also
- Bill Furniss, head coach of British Swimming
- Hockey Queensland
- Simon Timson, former Performance Director of UK Sport
References
External links
- British Swimming profile
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Swimming in the United Kingdom
- Aquatics GB, the federation of:
Swim England
Scottish Swimming
Swim Wales
- British records in swimming
- Aquatics GB Swimming Championships
- British champions in swimming
- British swimmers
- British Olympic swimmers
- British Paralympic swimmers
- City of Southampton
- Durham University
- Gloucester City
- Hemel Hempstead
- Hoddesdon
- Nottingham Leander
- Portsmouth Northsea
- Sheerness
- Sheffield City
- South London
- West London Penguin
- Wyre Forest
- National Water Polo League (NWPL)
- National Women's Water Polo League (NWWPL)
- British Olympic water polo players
