Patricia Davies

For the English codebreaker, see Patricia Davies (codebreaker).

Patricia Davies
Personal information
Born Patricia Joan Davies
(1956-12-05) 5 December 1956 (age 67)
Height 157 cm (5 ft 2 in)
Weight 60 kg (132 lb)
Coaching career
Years Team
2016 Zimbabwe women under-21
?-present Zimbabwe women
Medal record
Women's Field Hockey
Representing  Zimbabwe
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1980 Moscow Team Competition

Patricia ("Trish") Joan Davies (born 5 December 1956) 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.[1]

Because of the boycott by the United States and other countries, only one team was available to compete in the Women's Field Hockey Tournament: the hosting USSR team. A late request was sent to the government of the African nation, 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.

She coached the Zimbabwe national team at the 2022 Women's Hockey Africa Cup of Nations. She coached the Zimbabwe women's junior is 2016 as 2016 Women's Hockey Junior World Cup and 2016 Women's Junior Africa cup for Nations.[2]

References

  1. ^ English, Andrew (8 June 2012). "Sarah English, Anthea Stewart, Patricia Davies: Zimbabwe". Financial Times. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  2. ^ "FIH - DAVIES Patricia". FIH.


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