Susannah Townsend
.jpg) Susannah Townsend in 2015 | |||
| Personal information | |||
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| Born |
28 July 1989 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 | Caps | Goals |
| 2008–2021 | England | 97 | (9) |
| 2008–2021 | Great Britain | 82 | (4) |
| Total | 179 | (13) | |
Medal record | |||
| Last updated on: 11 June 2021 | |||
Susannah Townsend, MBE (born 28 July 1989) is an English field hockey player who plays as a midfielder for Canterbury.[1][2]
She was educated at Sutton Valence School, alongside Ashley Jackson, where together they each worked towards representing their country, England, in field hockey and is an Alumnus of the University of Kent.
Townsend is openly lesbian.[3]
Club career
[edit]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 Gantoise and in the Investec Women's Hockey League Premier Division for Canterbury and Reading[4]
International career
[edit]She competed for England in the women's hockey tournament at the 2014 Commonwealth Games[5][6][7] where she won a silver medal. She announced her retirement from international play on 9 September 2021.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Susannah Townsend | Team England | England Hockey Team". teamengland.org.
- ^ "Susannah Townsend - GB Hockey". Archived from the original on 17 November 2018. Retrieved 17 November 2018.
- ^ "Lesbian Visibility Day: LGBT+ women in sport share advice on sexuality". Sky Sports. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Retirements & coaching switches dominate post-Tokyo 2020". fih.ch. 9 September 2021. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
External links
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- Susannah Townsend at the International Hockey Federation
- Susannah Townsend at England Hockey (archived)
- Susannah Townsend at Great Britain Hockey (archived)
- Susannah Townsend at Team GB
- Susannah Townsend at Olympedia
- Susannah Townsend at Olympics.com
- Susannah Townsend at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
- Susannah Townsend at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games (archived)
- Susannah Townsend on Instagram
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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
- Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic field hockey players for 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
- English expatriate field hockey players
- Reading Hockey Club players
- Women's England Hockey League players
- Feldhockey Bundesliga (Women's field hockey) players
- Alumni of the University of Kent
- LGBTQ field hockey players
- English lesbian sportswomen
- Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- English expatriate sportspeople in Germany
- Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- English field hockey biography stubs