Rechelle hawkes biography
Rechelle Margaret Hawkes AM is an Australian former field hockey player....
Born Albany, W.A 30 May, In a glittering career, Rechelle Hawkes became the world's most decorated hockey player.
Rechelle Hawkes AM was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2002 as an Athlete Member for her contribution to the sport of hockey.
When women’s hockey was added to the Olympic program in 1980, Australia was the only nation to have won the gold medal more than once up until 2004.
They have done so three times – in Seoul 1988, Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000 – and the teams involved have come to be compared with some of the nation’s greatest sporting combinations ever. Only one athlete was a member of all three gold medal teams: Rechelle Hawkes, the veteran of more than 250 international matches.
Making her debut in 1985, Hawkes was captain of the Australian women’s hockey side – the Hockeyroos – for eight years from 1993 to 2000, during which time they lost just one international tournament.
Hawkes represented Australia at four Olympic Games, four World Cups, eight Champions Trophy tournaments and one Commonwealth Games.
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