Blake Govers (hockey) played a crucial role in Australia’s seventh consecutive gold medal in Birmingham: the versatile striker was Australia’s leading goal scorer, scoring in all six matches for seven goals in total. It was his first Commonwealth Games after missing the Gold Coast Games four years earlier when he broke his finger at training just a few days before the tournament.

Hailing from Albion Park near Wollongong in NSW, Blake rose through the ranks of local and state hockey and was named in the Australian under-21 team for the 2013 Junior World Cup. In 2015, he scored on debut for the Kookaburras against Pakistan in Hobart and was selected for the Rio Olympics the following year where he was the youngest member of the team.

He was part of the World Cup bronze-medal winning team in 2018 and medal successes continued in 2019 where he helped Australia to gold at the FIH Pro League and in 2021 when he was part of the silver medal-winning Kookaburras at his second Olympics in Tokyo.

His older brother Kieran Govers won Olympic bronze in London in 2012 and Commonwealth Games gold in Glasgow in 2014.