Sarah English (born 28 November 1955) is a former

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 ...

player from

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, who was a member of the

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that won the gold medal at the

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. She was known as the premier hockey goalkeeper in Zimbabwe. Because of the boycott of the United States and other countries, only one team was available to compete in the Women's Field Hockey Tournament: the hosting USSR team. A late request was sent to the government of the African nation, which quickly assembled a team less than a week before the competition started. To everyone's surprise they won, claiming Zimbabwe's only medal in the 1980 Games.

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1955 births Living people Zimbabwean female field hockey players Olympic field hockey players for Zimbabwe Field hockey players at the 1980 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Zimbabwe Olympic medalists in field hockey Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics White Zimbabwean sportspeople {{Zimbabwe-fieldhockey-bio-stub