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Michael McCann (field hockey)

field hockey player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ10329460 ↗
Source-derived summary

Michael McCann OAM (born 26 September 1977) is a field hockey striker from Sydney, Australia, who won the gold medal with the Australia national field hockey team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He was included in the national squad for the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup in 2001 after an impressive national league season netted him the top goal scorer's award.

He retired from international hockey in 2007 after playing 165 games and scoring 72 goals.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Michael McCann (field hockey)” is field hockey player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Michael, McCann and field, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1977, 2004, 2001, 2007—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Michael, McCann and field is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “field hockey player” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q10329460. The first chronological checks are 1977, 2004, 2001 and 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from “Michael McCann (field hockey)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.