Adam Commens (1976) is a hockey coach from Australia. In his playing days he won a bronze in the Sydney Olympics. When he missed out on the Athens Olympics due to injury he moved to Belgium.
Following his playing career he was asked by the Belgian federation to take on their national men’s team (Red Lions) and within weeks he qualified for the Beijing Olympics with them.
In 2009 he moved back to Australia to coach their national women’s team (Hockeyroos) winning World Cup silver in 2014. Following Rio 2016 he returned to Belgium where he became the High Performance Director for the Belgian federation. Since his appointment to this position the Red Lions (men) have won World Cup gold in 2018, European gold in 2019 and Olympic gold in 2021. The Red Panthers (women) won European silver, came in 4th in the Paris 2024 Games and have risen from outside the top 10 to a steady 3rd spot in the global ranking.
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