Flora Peel (born 19 September 1996) is an English field hockey player who won a gold medal as part of the England team at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. She was also a member of the Great Britain squad at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
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| Born |
19 September 1996[1] Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Midfield | ||||||||||||||||
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| Current club | Wimbledon Hockey Club | ||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Caps | Goals | ||||||||||||||
| 2022– | England | 30 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022– | Great Britain | 19 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Last updated on: 18 June 2024 | |||||||||||||||||
Career
editHaving previously played international hockey at youth level,[3] Peel made her senior England debut in February 2022 in the FIH Pro League.[1][2][3][4]
She set up both goals as England beat Australia 2–1 to win Commonwealth Games hockey gold for the first time at Birmingham 2022.[2][5][6][7]
Selected for the training squad earlier in the year,[8] Peel made her first appearance for Great Britain against Argentina on 15 December 2022.[1][9]
After missing the previous year's Women's FIH Hockey World Cup due to injury,[10][11][4] she was in the England team that placed fourth at the 2023 Women's EuroHockey Championship.[4][11][12]
On 18 June 2024, Peel was named in the 16-player Great Britain squad to compete at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.[4][11][13][14] The team went out in the quarter-finals.[15]
Personal life
editBorn in Cheltenham, Peel spent much of her childhood living in France where she learned to ski, going on to win a British Skiing Championships title in slalom.[2][11][4] She attended the University of Birmingham.[16] Her five-times great-grandfather is former United Kingdom Prime Minister and Metropolitan Police founder Sir Robert Peel.[2][5][17]
References
edit- ^ a b c "GB Senior Squad Flora Peel". Great Britain Hockey. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
- ^ a b c d e "Athlete Profile Flora Peel". Team England. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
- ^ a b "Flora Peel". England Hockey. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
- ^ a b c d e "PARIS 2024: FLORA PEEL SWAPS SKIS FOR HOCKEY STICK TO ACHIEVE OLYMPIC DREAM - 'A REAL ROLLERCOASTER'". Eurosport. Retrieved 2024-06-25.
- ^ a b "Flora Peel: from fun-fact political connections to Commonwealth hockey gold". The Hockey Paper. 26 August 2022. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games: England's women beat Australia to win historic first hockey gold". BBC Sport. 7 August 2022. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
- ^ "Women's sport must build on summer of English success – hockey star Flora Peel". The Independent. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
- ^ "Great Britain Training Squads Confirmed For 2022". Great Britain Hockey. 15 February 2022. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
- ^ "Match reports from GB's Pro League games in Argentina". Great Britain Hockey. 18 December 2022. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
- ^ "Darcy Bourne Replaces Flora Peel in Women's World Cup Squad". England Hockey. July 2022. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
- ^ a b c d "Hockey's Flora Peel: "It made me not want to throw myself down a mountain any more"". Team GB. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
- ^ "England Hockey Announce Men's And Women's Squad For Eurohockey Championships". England Hockey. 3 August 2023. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
- ^ "GB hockey select Roper for fourth Olympic Games". BBC Sport. 18 June 2024. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
- ^ "Men's and women's hockey squads selected to represent Team GB". Team GB. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
- ^ "GB women beaten by Netherlands in hockey quarters". BBC Sport. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
- ^ "Twelve Commonwealth Games medals for University of Birmingham". University of Birmingham. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
- ^ Gilmour, Rod (4 August 2022). "Meet Flora Peel - England's star hockey player descended from political royalty". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2024-06-25.