Gillian Cowley

Gillian Margaret "Gill" Cowley (born 8 July 1955 in Kitwe, Northern Rhodesia) is a former hockey player from Zimbabwe, who was a member of the national team that won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

[1] Because of the boycott of the United States and other countries, only one team was available to compete in the Women's Hockey Tournament: the hosting USSR team[failed verification].

A late request was sent to the government of the African nation, which quickly assembled a team less than a week before the competition started.

To everyone's surprise they won, claiming Zimbabwe's only medal in the 1980 Games.

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