Karen Brown (born 9 January 1963) is a former

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defender, who was a member of the British squad that won the bronze medal at the

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, Commonwealth Silver medal and European Gold Brown is England and Great Britain's second-highest capped player of all time, with 355 caps to her name. Her record was broken by

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in February 2016 during a test series with Australia, where Brown was working as Assistant Coach in the GB Team. She competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in

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. Brown retired in 1999, having played for

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on 179 occasions & Great Britain 176. Brown (England, March 1984 – August 1999) played a total of 355 international matches and has the most (5) appearances in the European Championship.

Coaching career

She was Assistant Coach for both the Great Britain and England hockey teams and part of the management teams that secured a World Cup bronze with England in 2010, Olympic bronze with Great Britain at the

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Olympics
European Gold
in 2015 and Olympic Gold at the

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Olympics. She stepped down from her role as Assistant Coach in January 2017, with the intention of working for England and GB Hockey in a coach development capacity.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, Karen English female field hockey players English field hockey coaches Field hockey players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic field hockey players for Great Britain British female field hockey players Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain 1963 births Living people Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England People from Redhill, Surrey Sportspeople from Surrey Olympic medalists in field hockey Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey Members of the Order of the British Empire Field hockey players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games