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SPORTING HISTORY

& ALUMNI

The John Fisher School has a national reputation for its sporting achievements across a range of sports including; rugby, cross-country, cricket and athletics.

Our School has twice won the National Schools' Seven-a-side Rugby Tournament; and we were runners-up on three occasions. In 2009 the 1stXV were semi-finalists in the Daily Mail RBS Cup and in 2000 our U15 were finalists in the Daily Mail Cup played at Twickenham. In Cricket our 1stXI has an annual fixture with the MCC and were finalists in the 2006 Independent Schools Twenty/20 competition played at Edgbaston. John Fisher boys regularly represent clubs, counties and their country at schoolboy level throughout the year.

At a time when many state schools have abolished Saturday sports fixtures it is of great pride that our School is able to regularly put out over twenty teams each weekend competing against some of the very best state, public and independent schools in the country.

Walter D'Hondt

1956 Melbourne Olympic Gold Medal
1960 Rome Olympic Silver Medal
1958 Commonwealth Games Gold & Silver Medals

Walter D’Hondt was a pupil at the John Fisher School from 1952 – 1953. He competed for Canada in the 1956 Summer Olympic Games in Melbourne where he won a Gold Medal in the ‘coxless fours’ - achieving the largest victory margin of any crew in the modern games, and in the 1960 Summer Olympic Games where he won a Silver Medal in the ‘eights’.

Walter also competed in the 1958 Commonwealth Games in Cardiff and won a Gold Medal in the ‘coxed fours’ and a Silver Medal in the ‘eights’. In 1959 Walter D’Hondt was inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame.

Martyn Rooney

2005 World Champs Relay finalist
2008 Beijing Olympics 400m & Relay finalist
2009 World Champs Relay Silver Medal
2010 European Champs 400m Bronze & Relay Silver
2012 Olympics Relay finalist
2013 World Champs Relay finalist
2014 European Champs 400m & Relay Gold Medals
2015 World Champs Relay Bronze Medal

Martyn was a pupil at The John Fisher School from 1998 – 2005 and competed for Great Britain in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He reached the 400 metre final and also finished fourth in the 4×400 metres relay. In the 2012 London Olympic Games Martyn was part of the GB 4x400m relay team which narrowly missed out on a medal - finishing in fourth place.

At the 2009 World Championships in Athletics he won a Silver Medal with the Great Britain 4×400 metres relay team. At the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona Martyn won Bronze Medals in the 400 metres and the 4x400 metres. At the European Championship in Zurich Martyn won the Gold Medal, his first in a major championships.

Ben Axten-Burrett Rugby Union Player England U16s, England Students RFU Plymouth Albion RFC	Derry Coughlan Rugby Union Player England U19 London Irish and Lansdowne	Simon Hunt Rugby Union Player England Sevens Ebbw Vale, Moseley	Tim Murtagh Professional Cricket Player England U19 Surrey, Middlesex	Chris Murtagh Professional Cricket Player Surrey	Ricky Nebett Rugby Union Player England A Leicester, Leinster and Harlequins
Mike Nestor Sean Crowley Record-breaking trans-Atlantic rowers	Tom O'Toole Rugby Union Player Cambridge University, England Students RFU	Paul Sackey Rugby Union Player England (22 caps, 11 tries) & Barbarians London Irish, London Wasps, Stade Francais, Harlequins	Kieran Staunton PGA Tour golfer	Zane Scotland PGA Tour Golfer	George Skivington Rugby Union Player England Saxons London Wasps, London Irish (Captain)
Kyle Traynor Rugby Union Player Scotland (4 Caps) & Barbarians Scotland 'A', U18, 19, & 21 (Captain) Edinburgh, Bristol	Kieran Treadwell Rugby Union Player Ireland U18s England U18s, U19s Harlequins RFC, Ulster	Jordan Saunders Rugby Union Player England Students RFU	Jonathan (Wallace) Magrin Rugby League Player London Broncos, Bradford Bulls	Jack Walsh Rugby Union Player England Sevens Ireland U18s Blackheath RFC	Matthew Williams Rugby Union Player England Sevens Bristol Rugby, Moseley

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