1. Kate Louise Richardson-Walsh is an Olympic Gold and Bronze Medal winning English field hockey player.
29 Facts About Kate Richardson-Walsh
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Kate Richardson-Walsh was capped a record 375 times for her country and was the England and Great Britain Captain for 13 years.
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Kate Richardson-Walsh graduated from Brunel University in 2003 with a 2:1.
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Kate Richardson-Walsh was selected to play for the under 16 Great Britain team when she was 14.
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Kate Richardson-Walsh made both her England and Great Britain debuts in 1999 and has since gone on to play at the full range of international tournaments including four Summer Olympics, four Hockey World Cups and four Commonwealth Games.
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In 2003 aged 23 years old, Kate Richardson-Walsh was made captain of the senior GB hockey team, a role she held for a further 13 years until her retirement in 2016.
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In 2014, Kate Richardson-Walsh captained the team to a disappointing 11th out of 12th place in the World Cup in The Hague.
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Kate Richardson-Walsh captained the team to a silver medal and was selected to be Team England's flag bearer for the closing ceremony.
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In 2015, Kate Richardson-Walsh captained England to win the Unibet EuroHockey Championships against the Netherlands.
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Kate Richardson-Walsh became the most capped female in Great Britain on Saturday 20 February 2016 during test matches in Australia when she overtook Karen Brown who had 355 caps.
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In 2016, Kate Richardson-Walsh captained the women's hockey team to their first gold medal at an Olympics.
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Kate Richardson-Walsh was selected to be the Team GB flag bearer at the closing ceremony for the Rio Olympics.
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Kate Richardson-Walsh played club hockey for Reading in the Women's England Hockey League Premier Division for seven years.
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In 2016 Kate Richardson-Walsh announced that she, and her wife Helen, would leave Reading Hockey Club to join HC Bloemendaal in the Netherlands after the Olympics.
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Kate Richardson-Walsh has played domestic hockey for; Leicester, Slough, SCHC and Klein Zwitserland.
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Kate Richardson-Walsh is an athlete ambassador for sports website platform Pitchero and endorses Osaka hockey sticks.
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Kate Richardson-Walsh currently serves as an ambassador for the Women's Sport Trust and supports disability hockey as an ambassador for Access Sport.
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Kate Richardson-Walsh currently serves as an ambassador for Roedean School.
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Kate Richardson-Walsh was part of the commentary team for the 2017 Eurohockey championships, along with her wife Helen, which was broadcast on BT Sport.
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Kate Richardson-Walsh provided hockey commentary and analysis for BBC Sport and Radio 5 Live at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, and analysis for the 2018 World Cup on BT Sport.
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Kate and Helen Richardson-Walsh made history becoming the first same-sex married couple to win an Olympic Gold medal together.
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Kate Richardson-Walsh was named Great Britain Hockey Athlete of the Year in 2007.
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In 2014, Kate Richardson-Walsh was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from Liverpool John Moores University.
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Kate Richardson-Walsh was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to hockey and promoted to Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2017 New Year Honours, for services to hockey.
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In 2016, Kate Richardson-Walsh was the first hockey player to be shortlisted for BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
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Kate Richardson-Walsh achieved 6th place out of 16 nominees with 34,604 votes.
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In June 2017, Kate Richardson-Walsh was presented with the highest honour in English Hockey; the England Hockey Member of Honour.
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Kate Richardson-Walsh was the first British hockey player to be inducted into the European Hall of Fame Archived 27 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine by the EHF.
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Kate and Helen Richardson-Walsh were awarded the National Lottery Spirit of Sport Award at the 2017 annual Sports Journalist's Association British Sports Awards.