Ivan Laing

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]

Olympic medal record
Men's field hockey
Representing United Kingdom Great Britain
( Scotland)
Bronze medal – third place 1908 London Team

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]

See also

References
  1. "Ivan Laing". Olympedia. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
  2. "Ivan Laing". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 2 August 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
  3. Football – Hawick v Langholm, Hawick News and Border Chronicle, 5 November 1909
  4. Swimming, Southern Reporter, 9 October 1913
  5. The Sportsman's Roll of Honour, The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 22 December 1917
  6. "Laing, Ivan". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  7. "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.


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