{{Short description|English field hockey player (born 1996)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Use British English|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox field hockey player | name = Tom Sorsby | image = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1996|10|28|df=y}} | birth_place = Sheffield, England | height = 1.81 m | position = Midfielder | clubs1 = Chapeltown HC | years1 = 2011–2013 | clubs2 = Sheffield Hallam | years2 = 2013–2015 | clubs3 = Beeston | years3 = 2015–2017 | clubs4 = University of Nottingham | years4 = 2017–2018 | clubs5 = Surbiton | years5 = 2018–2023 | years6 = 2023–present | clubs6 = Den Bosch | nationalyears1 = 2016–2017 | nationalteam1 = England & GB U-21 | nationalcaps1 = 26 | nationalgoals1 = 0 | nationalyears2 = 2019–present | nationalteam2 = England & GB | nationalcaps2 = 47 | nationalgoals2 = 0 | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport|Men's field hockey}} {{MedalCountry|{{ENG}}}} {{MedalCompetition|EuroHockey Championship}} {{MedalSilver|2023 Mönchengladbach|}} {{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}} {{MedalBronze|2022 Birmingham|Team}} }} '''Thomas Callum Sorsby''' (born 28 October 1996) is an English field hockey player who plays as a midfielder or defender for Dutch Hoofdklasse club Den Bosch and the England and Great Britain national teams. He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2024 Summer Olympics.
== Biography == Sorsby played hockey for Chapeltown HC before playing for Sheffield Hallam from 2013 to 2015. He played for England at under-18 and under-21 level and for Great Britain at under-21 and under-23 level.
He joined Beeston for the 2015–16 season and represented the England under-21 in the Sultan of Johor Cup in 2016, when they finished 4th and played for the Great Britain under-21 team in the Sultan of Johor Cup in 2017, when they finished 2nd.<ref name=SHC>{{Cite web |url=http://surbitonhc.com/tom-sorsby-joins-surbiton-from-university-of-nottingham/ |title=Tom Sorsby Joins Surbiton From University of Nottingham | Surbiton Hockey Club}}</ref>
After the 2017–18 season when he played for University of Nottingham Hockey Club he joined Surbiton in the Men's England Hockey League for the 2018–19 season.<ref name=SHC/> Sorsby earned a call up to the Great Britain Olympic squad for the delayed 2020 Olympics Games in Tokyo.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/143159 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=11 May 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.skysports.com/olympics/news/15234/12334725/team-gb-hockey-21-players-to-make-olympic-debuts-as-mens-and-womens-squads-are-named|title=Team GB hockey: 21 players to make Olympic debuts as men's and women's squads are named |website=Sky Sports|date=17 June 2021 |access-date=16 May 2025}}</ref>
He won a bronze medal with England in the Men's tournament at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games/62463163 |title=Commonwealth Games: England's men win hockey bronze against South Africa |website=BBC Sport|access-date=11 May 2025}}</ref> Sorsby continued to play club hockey in the Premier Division for Surbiton until 2023,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.englandhockey.co.uk/page_noside.asp?section=2343§ionTitle=Fixtures,+Results,+Tables,+Stats,+Teams+&+Players |title=Fixtures, Results, Tables, Stats, Teams & Players - England Hockey |website=Englandhockey.co.uk |accessdate=15 May 2019}}</ref> when he left England to play for Den Bosch in the Dutch Hoofdklasse.<ref>{{cite web |title=HC Den Bosch trekt Engelse international Tom Sorsby aan: ‘Een eer en geweldige kans’ |url=https://www.bd.nl/regiosport/hc-den-bosch-trekt-engelse-international-tom-sorsby-aan-een-eer-en-geweldige-kans~acbe3d454 |website=bd.nl |publisher=Brabants Dagblad |access-date=30 October 2023 |language=nl |date=16 June 2023}}</ref>
He won a silver medal with England at the 2023 Men's EuroHockey Championship in Mönchengladbach.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/hockey/66634378 |title=EuroHockey: England men lose out to the Netherlands in dramatic final |website=BBC Sport |date=27 August 2023|access-date=29 July 2025}}</ref>
Sorsby was part of the Great Britain that was selected for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, where the team reached the quarter final of the hockey event.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/articles/cy799nlnp8lo |title=GB wait for men's hockey medal goes on after shootout heartbreak |website=BBC Sport|date=4 August 2024 |access-date=11 May 2025}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Sports links}} * [https://www.greatbritainhockey.co.uk/players/gb-senior-squad/tom-sorsby Tom Sorsby] on Great Britain Hockey * [https://www.englandhockey.co.uk/international/senior-squad/tom-sorsby Tom Sorsby] on England Hockey * {{Team England|tom-sorsby}} * {{2022 Commonwealth Games profile|56205|Thomas Sorsby}}
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