Blake Govers

Fast Facts

Sport: Hockey
Event: Men's
Olympic History: Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020 (silver)
Coach: Colin Batch
Highlights: Silver at Tokyo 2020, Gold at 2018 Commonwealth Games, bronze at 2018 World Cup
Year Born: 1996
State Born: NSW

About Blake

Blake followed in his brother's footsteps (Kieran Gover, London 2012) and made his Olympic debut after only 12 months in the senior Australian squad. At 18 years of age Blake was the youngest member of the Rio 2016 men’s hockey squad.

Born and raised in Wollongong, he spent less than a year in the national development squad before being called up to the Olympic training squad. He made his international debut in May 2015 at the Hobart International Challenge, scoring a goal on debut.

Blake proved his potential in the senior ranks at the 2015 world league semi-final where he was crowned top scorer and best junior player. That world league semi-final was extra special as Kieran also scored alongside Blake.

They are the second pair of siblings to feature in the men’s national squad alongside Jeremy and Leon Hayward.

Blake was named in the 2015 world league final squad but unfortunately fractured his foot in the first game of the tournament against Belgium.

While Kieran missed out on making the Kookaburras squad for the Rio 2016 Games, Blake forged on and scored twice in a 9-0 win over Brazil.

After a post-Olympics break, Blake was back scoring for the Kookaburras in the October 2017 Oceania Cup.

Then in India two months later Blake, known for his excellent goal-to-game ratio, scored in four of the six World League final games as Australia went on to win the gold medal.

At Tokyo 2020 Blake was part of the silver medal-winning Kookaburras, who fought valiantly in the final and only just missed out on a gold medal in a heart-breaking penalty shootout against Belgium.

Off the field as Blake loves Holden classic cars and says he’d be a V8 Supercar driver if he didn't choose to play hockey.