Grace Balsdon (born 13 April 1993) is an English field hockey player who plays as a defender for Hampstead & Westminster and the England and Great Britain national teams.

Club career

She plays club hockey in the Women's England Hockey League Premier Division for Hampstead & Westminster. She has also played for Canterbury.

International career

In 2016, Balsdon played defender for the University of Maryland field hockey team and was named the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year, National Field Hockey Coaches Association All-American, All-Big Ten First Team, and three-time Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week. In the

2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 1 ...

, Balsdon scored the game winning goal for Great Britain to win the bronze medal in women's field hockey.

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* * * 1993 births Living people English female field hockey players Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England Female field hockey defenders Sportspeople from Canterbury Women's England Hockey League players Maryland Terrapins field hockey players English expatriate sportspeople in the United States Field hockey players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Hampstead & Westminster Hockey Club players Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic field hockey players for Great Britain Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in field hockey English Olympic medallists Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games {{England-fieldhockey-bio-stub