Richard Dodds
British field hockey player
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Richard David Allan Dodds OBE (born 23 February 1959) is an English former field hockey player. He was captain of the gold medal-winning Great Britain squad in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.[1]
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| Born |
23 February 1959 York, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 181 cm (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1980–1988 | Southgate | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Caps | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| – | Great Britain | 65 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| – | England | 79 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Biography
Dodds was born in the English city of York, and was educated at Kingston Grammar School and at St Catharine's College, Cambridge.[2] Dodds captained Cambridge University and represented them against Oxford in the 80th varsity match in 1980.[3]
Dodds played club hockey for Southgate in the Men's England Hockey League.[4] He was selected for the Great Britain team for the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, but subsequently did not attend due to the boycott.[5] He did however play at the 1982 Men's Hockey World Cup.
Dodds represented Great Britain and won a bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.[2][6] Dodds was part of the silver medal winning Great Britain team that competed at the 1985 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy in Perth, Australia[7] and also captained the England squad who won silver medal at the 1986 Men's Hockey World Cup before the Olympic gold in 1988.[8]
At international retirement he had earned 79 caps for England and 65 caps for Great Britain.[2] In 1989, he was awarded the OBE for services to hockey.[9] He has played veterans hockey with Reading alongside other former Olympians Don Williams, Rob Thompson, and John Shaw.[10]
He currently works as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, England.[1][11]
