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Nationality | English | |||||||||||||
Born | 1974 | |||||||||||||
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Sport | Field Hockey | |||||||||||||
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Jacqueline 'Jackie' Empson (born 1974) is a female British former field hockey player. [1]
Empson represented England and won a silver medal, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur. [2] [3]
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