Ivan Laing

Scottish field hockey player

Olympic medal record
Men's field hockey
Representing Great Britain ( Scotland)
	1908 London	Team

Ivan Laing (18 August 1885 – 30 November 1917) was a Scottish field hockey player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.^[1] Born in Hawick, and a member of the Hawick Hockey Club, in 1908 he won the bronze medal as member of the Scotland team.^[2] Laing also played rugby for Hawick RFC,^[3] and swam for Hawick Amateur Swimming Club.^[4]

He was educated at New College, Eastbourne, and at Verviers in Belgium.^[5]

Laing was killed in action aged 32 during World War I, serving as a lieutenant with the Coldstream Guards at Metz-en-Couture. He was buried at the Metz-en-Couture Communal Cemetery nearby.^[6]^[7]

References

^ "Ivan Laing". Olympedia. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
^ "Ivan Laing". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 2 August 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
^ Football – Hawick v Langholm, Hawick News and Border Chronicle, 5 November 1909
^ Swimming, Southern Reporter, 9 October 1913
^ The Sportsman's Roll of Honour, The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 22 December 1917
^ "Laing, Ivan". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
^ "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 7 November 2014. Retrieved 3 August 2015.