Sonia Robertson (born 2 June 1947 in Burnham Market, England) 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. Her identical twin sister Sandra Chick played alongside her in the same squad, and the two are described as the first twin gold medalists in hockey. The women's tournament was reduced by the Western boycott, and Zimbabwe, invited late and made up of players with an English background, won it to claim the country's only medal of the 1980 Games. According to the Olympedia match table she played in one of the team's five matches.
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member of the national team that won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow
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Born 2 June 1947 in Burnham Market, England GBR
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Gold 1 Silver 0 Bronze 0 Total 1
Plays: Field Hockey, Results, discipline and event
Hockey, Women
Competed In: 1980 Summer Olympics, Results, Games
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