Georgina Sophie Twigg, born on 21 November 1990, is an English international field hockey player who played as a midfielder for England and Great Britain from 2010 to 2016. She was part of the Great Britain teams that won the bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where she was the youngest player in the squad, and the gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. With England she won bronze at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, silver at the 2014 Games in Glasgow and gold at the 2015 European championship. She was named England Hockey's Young Performance Player of the Year four times from 2010, studied law at the University of Bristol, trained as a city lawyer and announced her retirement from international hockey in July 2018.
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Twigg played as a midfielder for England and Great Britain from 2010 to 2016
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is an English international field hockey player
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an Olympic gold medalist at the 2016 Summer Olympics
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Bronze medal at the London 2012 Summer Olympics
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