title: Matthew Wells (field hockey)
text: Matthew Wells OAM (born 2 May 1978 in Hobart, Tasmania) is a field hockey defender from Australia, who was a member of the team that won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens by beating title holders The Netherlands in the final. Four years earlier, when Sydney hosted the Summer Games, he finished in third spot with The Kookaburras, as the Men's National Team is called. He had to miss the 2006 Men's Hockey World Cup due to injury.
  
  External links
  
   Profile on Hockey Australia
  
  1978 births
  Australian male field hockey players
  Olympic field hockey players for Australia
  Male field hockey defenders
  Olympic gold medalists for Australia
  Olympic bronze medalists for Australia
  Field hockey players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
  2002 Men's Hockey World Cup players
  Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
  Field hockey players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
  Field hockey players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
  Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
  Sportspeople from Hobart
  Living people
  Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
  Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
  Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
  Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
  Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey
  Olympic medalists in field hockey
  Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
  Sportsmen from Tasmania