Zimbabwe women's national field hockey team

The Zimbabwe women's national field hockey team represents Zimbabwe in international women's field hockey. Its best known result came at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, where it won the gold medal in the first Olympic women's field hockey tournament. The Games were hit by the Western boycott, and with only about three weeks to go the organisers invited Zimbabwe, which was not yet a member of the International Hockey Federation, to send a team. The squad first met in May 1980 and was made up largely of players with an English background. It won three matches and drew two in a six team round robin, which gave the newly independent country its first Olympic medal. Zimbabwe also won the inaugural Hockey African Cup for Nations, which it hosted in 1990, followed by a silver medal in 1994 and a bronze in 1998.