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Susannah Townsend
MBE
Personal information
Born (1989-07-28) 28 July 1989 (age 35)
Blackheath, London, England
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
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 2014 Glasgow Team
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Gold Coast Team
European Championship
Gold medal – first place 2015 London
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Amstelveen

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

  1. ^ https://teamengland.org/team-england-athletes/susannah-townsend
  2. ^ http://www.greatbritainhockey.co.uk/player.asp?itemid=1055&itemTitle=Susannah+Townsend&section=1091
  3. ^ "WHL Statistics". fixtureslive.com. UK. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Wilson, Graham (19 July 2014). "England want hockey gold at Glasgow 2014, says Susannah Townsend". Express. UK. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  6. ^ "Glasgow 2014 profile". Retrieved 12 October 2014.
  7. ^ "Lesbian Visibility Day: LGBT+ women in sport share advice on sexuality". Sky Sports. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
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