| John Hanbury | |
| Irish: | Seán Ó hAnmhuire Jean Anburrie |
| Nickname: | Janbury |
| Occupation: | Software engineer/fishmonger |
| Birth Date: | 13 May 1993 |
| Birth Place: | Leicester |
| Height: | 1.870NaN0 |
| Sport: | HurlingAmerican Football |
| Code: | Hurling |
| County: | Galway |
| Province: | Leinster |
| Club: | Rahoon-Newcastle GAA |
| Clyears: | 2010–present |
| Clposition: | Full Back |
| Colleges: | NUI Galway |
| Fitz: | 0 |
| Counties: | Galway |
| Icyears: | 2015–2019 |
| Icposition: | Left corner-back, H-Back |
| Icapps(Points): | 25 (0-01) |
| Icprovince: | 2 |
| Icallireland: | 1 |
| Nhl: | 1 |
| Allstars: | 0 |
| Icupdate: | 18:25, 11 August 2018 |
John Hanbury (born 13 May 1993) is a former Irish hurler who played as a left corner-back for club side Rahoon-Newcastle and formerly at inter-county level with the Galway senior hurling team.[1]
As a student at NUI Galway, Hanbury was a regular player on the university's senior hurling team in the Fitzgibbon Cup.[2]
Hanbury joined the Rahoon-Newcastle club at a young age and played in all grades at juvenile and underage levels, enjoying championship success in the under-21 grade in 2013., Currently plays American football with Amsterdam Crusaders and on the Irish National American Football Team.
Hanbury first played for Galway as a member of the minor hurling team on 23 July 2011. He made his first appearance in an 8-26 to 0-12 All-Ireland quarter-final defeat of Antrim at Parnell Park.[3] On 4 September 2011, Hanbury was at left wing-back in Galway's 1-21 to 1-12 defeat of Dublin in the All-Ireland final at Croke Park.[4]
As a member of the Galway under-21 hurling team, Hanbury made his first appearance on 24 August 2013 in a 0-07 to 1-16 All-Ireland semi-final defeat by Clare.[5]
Hanbury made his debut for the Galway senior team on 15 February 2015 in a 2-15 to 1-17 National Hurling League defeat of Clare.[6] On 6 September 2015, Hanbury was at full-back for Galway's 1-22 to 1-18 defeat by Kilkenny in the All-Ireland final.[7]
On 23 April 2017, Hanbury came on as a 65th-minute substitute for Daithí Burke when Galway defeated Tipperary by 3-21 to 0-14 to win the National Hurling League.[8] Later that season he won his first Leinster Championship medal after Galway's 0-29 to 1-17 defeat of Wexford in the final.[9] On 3 September 2017, Hanbury started for Galway at left corner-back when Galway won their first All-Ireland in 29 years after a 0-26 to 2-17 defeat of Waterford in the final.[10]
On 8 July 2018, Hanbury won a second successive Leinster Championship medal following Galway's 1-28 to 3-15 defeat of Kilkenny in the final.[11]
| Team | Year | National League | Leinstser | All-Ireland | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | |||
| Galway | 2015 | Division 1A | 6 | 0-00 | 4 | 0-01 | 3 | 0-00 | 13 | 0-01 | |
| 2016 | 4 | 0-00 | 3 | 0-00 | 2 | 0-00 | 9 | 0-00 | |||
| 2017 | Division 1B | 7 | 0-00 | 3 | 0-00 | 2 | 0-00 | 12 | 0-00 | ||
| 2018 | 5 | 0-01 | 6 | 0-00 | 2 | 0-00 | 13 | 0-01 | |||
| Total | 22 | 0-01 | 16 | 0-01 | 9 | 0-00 | 47 | 0-02 | |||