Sonia Robertson (born 2 June 1947 in

Burnham Market Burnham Market is a village and civil parish in the England, English county Norfolk. The village is located north-east of King's Lynn and north-west of Norwich. It is one of The Norfolk Burnhams, the Burnhams, a group of three adjacent vill ...

) 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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. Her identical twin sister

Sandra Chick Alexandra "Sandra" Chick (born 2 June 1947) is a former field hockey player from Zimbabwe, who was a member of the national team that won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Her identical twin sister Sonia Robertson was one ...

was one of her teammates in the capital of the Soviet Union, and both are the first twin gold medalists in hockey. Because of a boycott by western European, Australasian and other countries, the Women's Field Hockey Tournament contained fewer teams than normal. A late request was sent to the government of Zimbabwe, 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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* 1947 births Living people People from Burnham Market British emigrants to Rhodesia 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 Zimbabwean twins Zimbabwean people of English descent White Zimbabwean sportspeople {{Zimbabwe-fieldhockey-bio-stub