Flora Peel
English field hockey player
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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.
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England[2]
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| Born |
19 September 1996[1] Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Midfield | ||||||||||||||||
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| Current club | Wimbledon Hockey Club | ||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Caps | Goals | ||||||||||||||
| 2022– | England | 30 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022– | Great Britain | 19 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Last updated on: 18 June 2024 | |||||||||||||||||
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]