Helen Volk

Helen Volk (born 29 March 1954) 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 records her as a Zimbabwe under 21 player in 1973 and 1974, a Zimbabwe B player from 1975 to 1977 and a Zimbabwe A player in 1979 and 1980, with Bulawayo Athletic Club as her club, and notes that she also represented Zimbabwe B at softball. The women's Olympic tournament was reduced by the Western boycott, 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. She played in two of the team's matches.