Susannah Townsend
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Personal information | |||
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Born |
Blackheath, London, England | 28 July 1989||
Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||
Weight | 61 kg (134 lb) | ||
Playing position | Midfielder | ||
Club information | |||
Current club | Canterbury | ||
National team | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2008– | England | 93 | (9) |
2008– | Great Britain | 75 | (2) |
Medal record |
Susannah Townsend, MBE (born 28 July 1989) is an English international field hockey player who plays as a midfielder for England and Great Britain. [1][2]
For the 2020-21 season she has rejoined former club Canterbury who play in the Women's England Hockey League Division One South.
Townsend has also played club hockey in Germany, in the Feldhockey Bundesliga for Der Club an der Alster, in Belgium for La Gantoise and in the Investec Women's Hockey League Premier Division for Canterbury and Reading [3]
She competed for England in the women's hockey tournament at the 2014 Commonwealth Games[4][5][6] where she won a silver medal.
She was educated at Sutton Valence School, alongside the male Great Britain captain, Ashley Jackson, where together they each worked towards representing their country, England, in field hockey.
Townsend is openly lesbian.[7]
References
- ^ https://teamengland.org/team-england-athletes/susannah-townsend
- ^ http://www.greatbritainhockey.co.uk/player.asp?itemid=1055&itemTitle=Susannah+Townsend§ion=1091
- ^ "WHL Statistics". fixtureslive.com. UK. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
- ^ Hoad, Alex (31 July 2014). "Canterbury Hockey Club's Susannah Townsend happy to still be in the hunt for a medal at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow". Kent Online. UK. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
- ^ Wilson, Graham (19 July 2014). "England want hockey gold at Glasgow 2014, says Susannah Townsend". Express. UK. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
- ^ "Glasgow 2014 profile". Retrieved 12 October 2014.
- ^ "Lesbian Visibility Day: LGBT+ women in sport share advice on sexuality". Sky Sports. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
External links
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- 1989 births
- Living people
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- English female field hockey players
- Field hockey players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic field hockey players of Great Britain
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
- Olympic medalists in field hockey
- Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- Female field hockey midfielders
- Der Club an der Alster players
- Reading Hockey Club players
- Women's England Hockey League players
- Feldhockey Bundesliga (Women's field hockey) players
- English field hockey biography stubs
- Alumni of the University of Kent
- LGBT field hockey players
- Lesbian sportswomen
- LGBT sportspeople from England