Gordon Pearce

Australian field hockey player

Gordon Pearce
Medal record
Men's field hockey
Representing Australia
	1968 Mexico City	Team

Gordon Charles Pearce (born 10 January 1934 in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India) is an Indian-born Australian field hockey player who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics, in the 1960 Summer Olympics, and in the 1968 Summer Olympics for Australia.^[1]^[2]

Pearce is the fourth of five brothers who represented Australia in hockey in the 1950s and 1960s.

In later life Pearce became a senior public servant within the Western Australian Public Service: In 1987 he was chief executive of the office of the Premier of Western Australia^[3] and in 1990 was appointed Chief Executive to the WA Inc Royal Commission by premier Carmen Lawrence.^[4] In 1995 he was appointed a member in the general division of the Order of Australia.^[5]

He is the grandfather of Australian Kookaburras representative, Jake Harvie.^[6]^[7]

References

^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Gordon Pearce". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 26 October 2012. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
^ Australian Olympic Committee (2003). The Compendium: Official Australian Olympics Statistics 1896-2002. Univ. of Queensland Press. ISBN 9780702234255.
^ "History of the Department of Premier and Cabinet 1829 – 2012" (PDF). Government of Western Australia. 2012. p. 8.
^ "Report 1 of the Royal Commission" (PDF). State Law Publisher. 26 October 2000.
^ "PEARCE, Gordon Charles". It's An Honour - Government of Australia.
^ "Family ties brings Harvie to 'hockey joy'". Hockey One. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
^ "Kookaburra Jake Harvie hails from Australian hockey royalty". The West Australian. Retrieved 28 July 2018.

External links

Gordon Pearce at Olympedia
Gordon Pearce at the Australian Olympic Committee

Australia squad – 1956 Summer Olympics – 5th place

1 Dick (c)
2 M Pearce
3 G Pearce
4 E Pearce
5 Foley
6 Whiteside
7 Booth
8 Jobson
9 Leeson
10 Clarke
11 Mecklem
12 Carton
13 Kemp
14 Spackman
15 Barblett
16 Bennett
17 Dwyer
18 Hailey

v t e Australia squad – 1960 Summer Olympics – 6th place
1 Malcolm 2 Spackman 3 Currie 4 E Pearce 5 Bill 6 G Pearce 7 Wood 8 McBryde 9 J Pearce 10 Carton (c) 11 Hailey 12 Crossman 13 Craig 14 Pritchard 15 Evans

v t e Australia squad – 1968 Summer Olympics – Silver medal
1 Dearing 2 Evans 3 Glencross (c) 4 Haigh 5 Martin 6 Mason 7 Nilan 8 E Pearce 9 G Pearce 10 J Pearce 11 Piper 12 Quine 13 Riley 14 Smart 15 Busch