Helen Richardson-Walsh, born Helen Richardson on 23 September 1981 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, is an English hockey player who plays as a midfielder and has been in the England and Great Britain women's field hockey teams since 1999. She won 293 international caps and represented Great Britain at the Sydney, Beijing, London and Rio Olympic Games, becoming at eighteen the youngest female hockey player to represent Great Britain at an Olympic Games. Her honours include Olympic bronze in 2012 and gold in 2016, when Great Britain won its first women's hockey gold, European gold in 2015 and Commonwealth Games silver in 2002. She scored a penalty in the 2016 final shoot-out against the Netherlands.
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member of both the England and the Great Britain women's field hockey teams since 1999
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becoming the youngest female hockey player to represent Great Britain at an Olympic Games
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member of both the England and the Great Britain women's field hockey teams since 1999
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is an English hockey player who plays as a midfielder
Competed In: 2000 Summer Olympics, International career, Sydney 2000
At age 18 she was a member of the Great Britain team at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney
Competed In: 2012 Summer Olympics, International career, London 2012
Richardson was part of the Great Britain team that won the bronze medal at the 2012 Olympics in London
Competed In: 2016 Summer Olympics, International career, Rio 2016
Richardson-Walsh was a member of the Great Britain team that won the gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics
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