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The British women's national ice hockey team represents Great Britain at the International Ice Hockey Federation's IIHF World Women's Championships. The women's national team is controlled by Ice Hockey UK. As of 2011, Great Britain has 476 female players. [2]
The England women's national ice hockey team represents England in international ice hockey competitions. Since 1987, the team has participated in five games. [1]
The Great Britain women's national field hockey team represents part of the United Kingdom in international field hockey tournaments such as the Summer Olympics.. In most other competitions, including the Women's Hockey World Cup, the Commonwealth Games and some editions of the Hockey Champions Trophy, three of the home nations compete in their own right: England and Scotland and Wales, while ...
In 2016, Richardson-Walsh captained the women’s hockey team to their first gold medal at an Olympics. The team was undefeated throughout the tournament, beating the Netherlands in the final on penalties. [12] Kate Richardson-Walsh was selected to be the Team GB flag bearer at the closing ceremony for the Rio Olympics. [13]
Helen Richardson-Walsh (née Richardson, born 23 September 1981) is an English hockey player who plays as a midfielder. [1] 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 who won gold at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
England Hockey is affiliated to the European Hockey Federation and International Hockey Federation. It runs a number of competitions, including the English Hockey League . While UK hockey is organised by separate bodies for each of the home nations , the United Kingdom is required to enter a combined team in the Olympics .
Marjorie Pollard played hockey nearly every year for England from 1921 to 1937. [2] The team toured New Zealand in 1938 and the US in 1947. Notable players were Barbara and Bridget West, Hilda Light and Mary Russell Vick. The teams had to play in long stockings whatever the heat until they were replaced with split skirts and knee high stockings ...
The women's tournament in ice hockey at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held in Beijing, China between 3 and 17 February 2022. [1] Ten countries qualified for the tournament; six of them did so automatically by virtue of their ranking by the International Ice Hockey Federation, one, China, automatically qualified as hosts, while the three others took part in a qualification tournament.