Christine Prinsloo

Christine Seraphine Prinsloo, known as Chris Prinsloo (born 3 May 1952), is a former field hockey player from Zimbabwe who was a member of the national team that won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Olympedia gives her birthplace as Oldeani in present day Tanzania and lists her club as Salisbury Postals in Harare. The women's Olympic tournament was reduced by the Western boycott, so that only the host Soviet team and a handful of late invitees took part, and Zimbabwe, which hastily put a squad together, won it to claim the only medal the country took home from the 1980 Games. It was the first Olympic medal awarded in women's field hockey.