# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/colin-batch
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:55:42.003Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/colin-batch"
name: "Colin Batch"
slug: "colin-batch"
description: "Colin Batch is a professional international field hockey coach and former international player from Australia. Batch was most recently the head coach of the Kookaburras until he stepped down on the 1st of September 2024.\nBefore he was head coach of the Kookaburras, Batch coached New Zealand's men's team the Black Sticks between 2013 and 2016 and Belgium's men's team the Red Lions from 2010 to 2012. Prior to being a head coach, between 2001 and 2008 Batch was \nBarry Dancer's assistant coach during the most successful Kookaburras era in their history. During this era Australia broke their Olympic hoodoo winning the gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics as well as bronze at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Silver at the 2002 and 2006 World Cups, Gold at the 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games and gold at the 2005 and 2008 Champions Trophies."
tagline: "Australian field hockey player-coach"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1958-03-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.16
  momentum:             3.908045977011494
  historical:           7.871022666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Колін Батч"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B4"
    title: "كولين باتش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Batch"
    title: "Colin Batch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Batch"
    title: "Colin Batch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Batch"
    title: "Colin Batch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%B3%E0%B4%BF%E0%B5%BB_%E0%B4%AC%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%9A%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9A%E0%B5%8D"
    title: "കോളിൻ ബാച്ച്"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Batch"
    title: "Colin Batch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Batch"
    title: "Colin Batch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%8D%D1%82%D1%87%2C_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Бэтч, Колин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4497715"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump