Scintillating end to memorable Australian U21 Championships

Four captivating medal matches have provided an electrifying finale to this year's Hockey Australia U21 Championships in Perth.

Western Australia and Victoria share top honours in a scintillating display of hockey in both the Women's and Men's Gold Medal matches.

After going up 1-0 in the first quarter, Victoria could not stop a rampant Brodee Foster scoring two goals in as many minutes for Western Australia, which ended up being enough to decide the Men's Gold Medal encounter.

In the match for the Bronze Medal, after being 2-0 up at halftime, New South Wales State ran away with the game in the second half, defeating ACT 6-1.

Victoria appeared to have the Gold Medal in the bag in the Women's competition until Western Australia's relenetless pressure scored themselves two late goals in the last quarter to level the scores at 2-2 and send the game to a penalty shootout.

The Victorians recomposed themselves for the shootout, prevailing 3-1 in a nail-biting finish.

The Bronze Medal match also finished 2-2 at full-time between Queensland and New South Wales State. In another tense finale, Queensland won the shootout 3-2.

Western Australia's Brodee Foster had a tournament to savour, taking home the Men's Top Goal Scorer and the Player of the Tournament awards to go with his Gold Medal.

Foster also scored arguably the goal of the tournament, with the goal highlight video being seen thousands of times worldwide on social media.

Grace Young from New South Wales State was named the Women's Player of the Tournament, with Queensland's Tatum Stewart taking home the Top Goal Scorer award.

The 2022 Hockey Australia U21 Championships were made possible thanks to Tourism Western Australia and Hockey WA.

A replay of every match from the championships is available on LIVEHockey.

2022 Hockey Australia U21 Championships - Final Standings
Perth Hockey Stadium at Curtin University, Perth WA

Men's Competition
Men’s match results and final standings
Gold Medal - Western Australia 
Silver Medal - Victoria
Bronze Medal - New South Wales State

Player of the Tournament presented by Just Hockey - Brodee Foster (WA)
Top Goal Scorer - Brodee Foster (WA)
Play the Whistle Award - ACT
Umpires of the Gold Medal Match - Jayden Pearson, James Unkles
Technical Official of the Gold Medal Match - Deb Dalton
Umpires of the Bronze Medal Match - Ben Hocking, Aaron Gotting
Technical Official of the Bronze Medal Match - Sarah Stroeher

Women's Competition
Women’s match results and final standings
Gold Medal - Victoria
Silver Medal - Western Australia
Bronze Medal - Queensland

Player of the Tournament presented by Just Hockey - Grace Young (NSW State)
Top Goal Scorer - Tatum Stewart (QLD)
Play the Whistle Award - ACT
Umpires of the Gold Medal Match - Deborah O'Connell, Tamara Leonard
Technical Official of the Gold Medal Match - Hannah Stroeher
Umpires of the Bronze Medal Match - Kristy Robertson, Nicola Brown
Technical Official of the Bronze Medal Match - Ian Lugg