Philipp Crone

Philipp Crone was a German field hockey player who participated in the 2000 Olympics at Sydney. Germany beat Great Britain 4-0 to win the match for fifth place. At Athens in 2004 he finally won a medal, when Germany beat Spain 4-3 after sudden death extra time in the bronze medal match.

In 1999 and 2003, Crone won the European Championships, and also the 1999, 2001, and 2003 European Indoors. He also won the Champions Trophy in 1997 and 2001, the Worlds in 2002 and 2006, and the World Indoors in 2003. Crone was on the squads that lost the Champions Trophy finals in 2000, 2002, and 2006. He played 349 international matches (including 22 indoor), scoring 19 goals (five indoor) from 1998-2007.

Domestically, Crone played with Rot-Weiß München and won the German indoor title in 2001. He was awarded the Silver Bay Leaf, Germany’s highest sports award. By profession, he became a sports journalist working with TV channels Bayerisches Fernsehen, ZDF, and the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. He was also assistant coach with the German women’s youth national team.