Kate Richardson-Walsh
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Richardson-Walsh at the 2015 EuroHockey Championship
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| Birth name | Kate Louise Walsh |
| Nationality | British |
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9 May 1980 Withington, Manchester, England |
| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) |
| Weight | 66 kg (146 lb) |
| Spouse(s) | Helen Richardson-Walsh (m. 2013) |
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 Great Britain England
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| Sport | Field hockey |
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Kate Louise Richardson-Walsh, OBE (née Walsh, born 9 May 1980) is an Olympic Gold and Bronze Medal winning English field hockey player. She was capped a record 375 times for her country and was the England and Great Britain Captain for 13 years.
Richardson-Walsh was born in Withington, Manchester and attended Priestnall School in . Her first hockey club was Didsbury Greys in Manchester. Richardson-Walsh was selected to play for the under 16 Great Britain team when she was 14. It took Richardson-Walsh just nine years to go from starting hockey at her school aged 11 to playing for her country at the Olympic Games. She graduated from Brunel University in 2003 with a 2:1 (BSc Sports Science).
Richardson-Walsh made both her England and Great Britain debuts in 1999 and has since gone on to play at the full range of international tournaments including four Summer Olympics, four Hockey World Cups and four Commonwealth Games.
In 2003 aged 23 years old Richardson-Walsh was made captain of the senior GB hockey team, a role she held for a further 13 years until her retirement in 2016.
As a defender she won a silver medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games held in her hometown of Manchester, and bronze at the 2007 EuroHockey Nations Championships.
In 2012 Summer Olympics, Walsh was hit by a stick in the team's opening match against Japan and suffered a broken jaw, which was expected to end her journey in Olympic games. However after undergoing surgery and missing just three matches, she returned to play in their penultimate group game against China and captained the team to win the Bronze Medal.
In 2014 Richardson-Walsh captained the team to a disappointing 11th out of 12th place in the World Cup in The Hague.
Glasgow 2014 marked her fourth Commonwealth Games where she captained the team to a Silver medal and was also selected to be Team England's flag bearer for the closing ceremony.
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