Gillian Cowley

Gillian Margaret Cowley, known as Gill Cowley (born 8 July 1955 in Kitwe, Northern Rhodesia), is a former hockey player from Zimbabwe who was a member of the national team that won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. The women's tournament was reduced by the Western boycott of the Games, and Zimbabwe, invited late and assembled in a matter of weeks, won it to claim the only medal the country took home from those Games. The team became known as the Golden Girls. Olympedia lists her in all five of Zimbabwe's matches, in which she scored one goal in a round robin the team finished with three wins and two draws.