Helen Richardson is an English

England

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 field hockey

Field hockey

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 international, who was a member of the England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 and Great Britain

Great Britain

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 women's field hockey team during the late 1990s and 2000s.

Richardson made her international debut for England in 1999 against Japan. Just short of hundred caps for England, the defender has won medals in three EuroHockey Nations Championships (all bronze), two Champions Challenge (gold and bronze) and silver at the Commonwealth Games

Commonwealth Games

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 in Manchester

Manchester

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. As well as playing in two World Cups

Women's Hockey World Cup

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, she represented Great Britain at the 2000 Summer Olympics

2000 Summer Olympics

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 in Sydney, Australia.

Prior to the 2008 Summer Olympics

2008 Summer Olympics

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 Richardson helped Leicester lift the EH Cup after beating Slough; the second time she has won the trophy. After the Beijing Games she played club hockey in the Netherlands for HC Den Bosch

HC Den Bosch

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