Jaimee Sarah Provan-Claxton (born 3 February 1978) is a

field hockey Field hockey (or simply referred to as hockey in some countries where ice hockey is not popular) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalk ...

forward from New Zealand, who represented her native country in 2 Olympic Games: the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece. The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...

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- here she finished in sixth place with the Women's National Team. She also competed in the

2008 Beijing Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and officially branded as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes fro ...

. As well as representing NZ at the

2002 Commonwealth Games The 2002 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XVII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Manchester 2002, were an international multi-sport event for the members of the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth held in Manchester, England, ...

. Provan made her international senior debut for the ''Black Sticks'' in 2001 and retired in 2008 with 145 international test caps. She was born in

Christchurch Christchurch (; ) is the largest city in the South Island and the List of cities in New Zealand, second-largest city by urban area population in New Zealand. Christchurch has an urban population of , and a metropolitan population of over hal ...

. Since retiring from hockey, Jaimee became a tv personality before moving to Europe with her husband. She now lives in France with their 3 kids. Jaimee launched her own website design & development business in 2019 called Website Restyle

International senior competitions

* 2001 –

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, Amstelveen * 2002 –

, Macau * 2002 –

Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games is a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, which consists mostly, but not exclusively, of territories of the former British Empire. The event was first held in 1930 ...

, Manchester * 2002 –

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, Perth * 2003 – Champions Challenge, Catania * 2004 – Olympic Qualifying Tournament, Auckland * 2004 –

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, Athens * 2005 – Champions Challenge, Virginia Beach * 2008 –

, Beijing

References

New Zealand Field Hockey

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