Flora Peel

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Flora Peel
Personal information
Born (1996-09-19) 19 September 1996 (age 27) [1]
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England [2]
Playing position Midfield
Club information
Current club Wimbledon Hockey Club
National team
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2022– England 30 (1)
2022– Great Britain 19 (0)
Medal record
Women's field hockey
Representing Flag of England.svg  England
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Birmingham Team
Last updated on: 18 June 2024

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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Career

Having 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

Born 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]

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References

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  6. ↑ "Commonwealth Games: England's women beat Australia to win historic first hockey gold". BBC Sport. 7 August 2022. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
  7. ↑ "Women's sport must build on summer of English success – hockey star Flora Peel". The Independent. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
  8. ↑ "Great Britain Training Squads Confirmed For 2022". Great Britain Hockey. 15 February 2022. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
  9. ↑ "Match reports from GB's Pro League games in Argentina". Great Britain Hockey. 18 December 2022. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
  10. ↑ "Darcy Bourne Replaces Flora Peel in Women's World Cup Squad". England Hockey. July 2022. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
  11. 1 2 3 4 "Hockey's Flora Peel: "It made me not want to throw myself down a mountain any more"". Team GB. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
  12. ↑ "England Hockey Announce Men's And Women's Squad For Eurohockey Championships". England Hockey. 3 August 2023. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
  13. ↑ "GB hockey select Roper for fourth Olympic Games". BBC Sport. 18 June 2024. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
  14. ↑ "Men's and women's hockey squads selected to represent Team GB". Team GB. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
  15. ↑ "GB women beaten by Netherlands in hockey quarters". BBC Sport. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
  16. ↑ "Twelve Commonwealth Games medals for University of Birmingham". University of Birmingham. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
  17. ↑ Gilmour, Rod (4 August 2022). "Meet Flora Peel - England's star hockey player descended from political royalty". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2024-06-25.
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