Kane Russell
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Kane Elliot Mark Russell | ||
Born |
Dunedin, New Zealand | 22 April 1992||
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) | ||
Playing position | Defender | ||
Club information | |||
Current club | Hamburger Polo Club | ||
Senior career | |||
Years | Team | ||
–2015 | Southern Dogs | ||
2016–2017 | Antwerp | ||
2017–2019 | Léopold | ||
2019–2020 | Rotterdam | ||
2020–present | Hamburger Polo Club | ||
National team | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2012–present | New Zealand | 167 | (71) |
Medal record |
Kane Elliot Mark Russell (born 22 April 1992) is a New Zealand field hockey player who plays as a defender for German club Hamburger Polo Club and the New Zealand national team.
Russell represented his country at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where the men's team came seventh.
Club career
Russell plays as a defender for the Southern region in the New Zealand Hockey League. In 2016 he joined Royal Antwerp in Belgium. After one season with Antwerp he left them for Léopold. In the 2018–19 season he won the Belgian national title with Léopold. After he won the national title, he left Léopold and joined Rotterdam in the Netherlands. In April 2020, it was announced he left Rotterdam together with Blair Tarrant for Hamburger Polo Club in Germany for the 2020–21 season.
Personal life
Russell was born in Dunedin in 1992. Of Māori descent, Russell affiliates to the Ngāpuhi iwi.
- 1992 births
- Living people
- Ngāpuhi people
- New Zealand Māori sportspeople
- Sportspeople from Dunedin
- Olympic field hockey players for New Zealand
- New Zealand male field hockey players
- 2014 Men's Hockey World Cup players
- Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Field hockey players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup players
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for New Zealand
- Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey
- Male field hockey defenders
- HC Rotterdam players
- Men's Hoofdklasse Hockey players
- Men's Belgian Hockey League players
- Royal Léopold Club players
- 2023 Men's FIH Hockey World Cup players
- New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in Germany
- Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- New Zealand field hockey biography stubs