Helen Richardson-Walsh
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| Birth name | Helen Richardson |
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23 September 1981 Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England |
| Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) |
| Weight | 55 kg (121 lb) |
| Spouse(s) | Kate Richardson-Walsh (m. 2013) |
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 Great Britain England
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| Sport | Field hockey |
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Helen Richardson-Walsh, MBE (née Richardson, born 23 September 1981) is an English field hockey player who plays as a midfielder. She has been a member of both the England and the Great Britain women's field hockey teams since 1999, and was a member of the Great Britain team that won gold at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Helen Richardson was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire and grew up in Nottingham. She began playing hockey at a young age, joining West Bridgford Hockey Club at the age of seven. She attended Uphill Primary school in Weston Super-Mare before returning to her home city of Nottingham as a teenager where she attended West Bridgford School and South Nottingham College.
Richardson played for West Bridgford and Sherwood Hockey Clubs before joining Leicester Hockey Club. She won her first England cap in 1999, at the age of 17. At age 18 she was a member of the Great Britain team at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, becoming the youngest female hockey player to represent Great Britain at an Olympic Games.
Richardson was a member of the silver medal-winning England team at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. After the 2002 World Cup she underwent three operations on her ankle, returning to the sport in 2004.
Richardson won bronze medals with the England team at the 2006 and 2010 Commonwealth Games. She competed in her second Olympics in 2008, where Great Britain did not advance to the semi-finals. After the 2008 Olympics she spent a year playing for HC Den Bosch in the Netherlands before returning to England, after which she played for Reading Hockey Club for seven years.
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