Georgie Twigg

Georgie Twigg
Personal information
Born (1990-11-21) 21 November 1990
Lincoln, Lincolnshire
Height 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight 62 kg (137 lb)
Playing position Midfielder
National team
2010– Great Britain (2)

Georgina "Georgie" Twigg (born 21 November 1990) is a British field hockey player[1] and an Olympic gold medalist at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Twigg has played for England and Great Britain since 2010. Unusually, in the summer of 2010, she took her first GB senior cap before she won her first England cap.

Since then, results have included

She was named England Hockey's Young Performance Player of the Year in 2010, 2011, 2012 & 2013. She has played for Surbiton, Clifton, University of Bristol, Cannock and Lincoln.[2]

Personal life

Twigg is from Lincoln,[3] and attended Repton School.[4]

She arrived at Bristol University at the age of 17 in September 2008 to read law. While an undergraduate she played hockey for university and Clifton. After her result at the 2012 Olympics her home village post box was painted bronze; it was subsequently returned to its regular, red colour by the Royal Mail.[5]

References

  1. "GB Hockey Profile". Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  2. "EHL Statistics". Fixtureslive.com. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  3. "EHL Statistics". Fixtureslive.com. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  4. http://www.repton.org.uk/Old-Reptonians-Make-Golden-History-in-Rio
  5. "BBC News - Doddington postbox painted bronze by hockey fans". BBC. 12 August 2012. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
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