Ian Bird (field hockey)
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Born | Vancouver, British Columbia | March 18, 1970
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Robert Ian Bird (born March 18, 1970, in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a former field hockey defender from Canada who competed in the Summer Olympics in 1988 and 2000.
Bird is an alumnus of Handsworth Secondary School and played for West Vancouver Field Hockey Club.
Bird is currently the President of Community Foundations of Canada as of 2011.
He later founded the first youth Field Hockey club in Quebec; Chelsea Phoenix Field Hockey and has been the head coach since. Bird has led the Quebec team to multiple national championships and the club continues to expand and flourish.
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- 1970 births
- Living people
- Canadian male field hockey players
- Field hockey players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic field hockey players for Canada
- Field hockey players from Vancouver
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Canada
- Pan American Games medalists in field hockey
- 1998 Men's Hockey World Cup players
- Male field hockey defenders
- West Vancouver Field Hockey Club players
- Field hockey players at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Canadian field hockey biography stubs