Legendary England and Great Britain women’s hockey captain Kate Richardson-Walsh has been nominated for a place in the European Hockey Hall of Fame.
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Kate won 375 caps in a 17-year international career, culminating in an historic Olympic gold medal for Great Britain’s women’s team in Rio last summer, lining up in the same team as her wife Helen. She then retired from international hockey at the very pinnacle of her career, having been named flagbearer for Team GB at the Olympic closing ceremony.
Having inspired a generation, since Rio she also became an OBE for services to hockey, and was the first hockey player ever to be nominated for BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year Award, finishing sixth overall and the second-highest placed female.
This week she was invited to 10 Downing Street to help mark International Women’s Day, and was also asked by the United Nations to be part of their HeForShe Arts Week.
Kate Richardson-Walsh CV
375 caps for England and Great Britain
49 goals
19 medals
13 years as captain
1 Olympic Gold Medal
1 Olympic Bronze Medal
1 World Cup Bronze Medal
1 EuroHockey Championship Gold medal
1 EuroHockey Championship Silver medals
5 EuroHockey Championship Bronze Medals
Ambassador for Access Sport
Representative on the European Olympic Athletes’ Commission
Patron of Women’s Sport Trust.
Awarded both the MBE and OBE for services to hockey
Fans can vote for Kate between now and 1st April at http://eurohockey.org/hall-fame-2017-voting and the winner will be announced in this summer’s Rabo EuroHockey Championships in Amsterdam.
Hockey World Cup 2018: London hosts the World’s biggest hockey tournament in the summer of 2018 as our Olympic Champions fight for more gold on home soil. Tickets are certain to be in huge demand and go on sale later in the year, with priority to those who purchase for the Netherlands test match or the Hockey World League. If you want to be the first to hear about hockey ticket updates, sign up to our ticket bulletins.
A sponsorship opportunity to become title sponsor of the women’s Hockey World Cup is available – contact Graham Swanson on [email protected] or 07590 183304 for more details.
About Investec, principal sponsor of the England and Great Britain women’s hockey team. Investec is an international specialist bank and asset manager that provides a diverse range of financial products and services to a select client base. The group was established in 1974 and has core activities in the UK, South Africa and Australia.
Investec focuses on delivering distinctive profitable solutions for its clients in three core areas of activity, namely Specialist Banking, Wealth & Investment and Asset Management.
Investec sponsors the Investec Derby Festival, Test Cricket in England, the England & GB Women’s Hockey teams, the Investec Rugby Championship and Investec Super Rugby in New Zealand.
