Alison Ramsay
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| Full name | Alison Gail Ramsay | ||||||||||||||||
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Alison Gail Ramsay (born 16 April 1959) is a former Scottish field hockey player, who was a member of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland squad that won the bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. She is one of the world's most capped women's hockey players, with over 250 appearances for Scotland and Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and received the MBE.
Ramsay enjoyed a thirteen-year international career before her retirement in 1995. She still plays for Grove Menzieshill HC at club level and works as a solicitor. Ramsay received the prestigious MacRobert Thistle Award in 1995 for her achievements and she remains one of the most respected hockey players to have come out of Scotland.
Achievemements
– Olympic bronze medal Team GB (1992, Barcelona)[1]
– 259 international hockey caps (150 for Scotland and 109 for GB): a world record at the time of retirement from international hockey (1995) and acknowledged in the Guinness Book of Records[1]
– First female player to reach 100 international GB caps[1]
External links
- Alison Ramsay at Olympics.com
- Alison Ramsay at Team GB
- Alison Ramsay at Olympedia
- "Alison Ramsay MBE at the British Olympic Committee". Archived from the original on 30 August 2007. Retrieved 16 June 2007.
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- Alison Ramsay at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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- ^ a b c staff, Hockey Paper (18 June 2021). "My life in hockey: Scotland and GB's Alison Ramsay". The Hockey Paper. Retrieved 25 July 2025.