Lindsey Gay Carlisle (born 22 April 1969 in

Johannesburg Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity, and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Demo ...

Gauteng Gauteng ( ) is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. The name in Sotho-Tswana languages means 'place of gold'. Situated on the Highveld, Gauteng is the smallest province by land area in South Africa. Although Gauteng accounts for only ...

) is a

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player from

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...

, who twice represented her native country at the

Summer Olympics The Summer Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'été), also known as the Games of the Olympiad, and often referred to as the Summer Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inau ...

: 2000 and 2004. The defender comes from

, and is

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d ''Linds''. She plays for a provincial team called Southern Gauteng.

International Senior tournaments

* 1995 – Olympic Qualifier, Cape Town * 1998 –

World Cup A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities – usually international teams or individuals representing their countries – compete for the title of world champion. The event most associated with the concept i ...

, Utrecht * 1998 –

Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games, often referred to as the Friendly Games or simply the Comm Games, are a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930, and, with the exce ...

, Kuala Lumpur * 1999 –

All Africa Games The African Games, formally known as the All-Africa Games or the Pan African Games, are a continental multi-sport event held every four years, organized by the African Union (AU) with the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (AN ...

, Johannesburg * 2000 – Champions Trophy, Amstelveen * 2000 –

Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a var ...

, Sydney * 2002 – Champions Challenge, Johannesburg * 2002 –

, Manchester * 2002 –

, Perth * 2003 –

, Abuja * 2003 –

Afro-Asian Games The Afro-Asian Games were the series of inter-continental multi-sport competitions, held between athletes from Asia and Africa. These Games are one-of-a-kind, since no other sporting competition brings athletes from these two continents together ...

, Hyderabad * 2004 –

, Athens * 2005 – Champions Challenge, Virginia Beach * 2006 –

, Melbourne

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* 1969 births Living people South African female field hockey players Olympic field hockey players for South Africa Field hockey players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Field hockey players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for South Africa Field hockey players from Johannesburg African Games gold medalists for South Africa Competitors at the 2003 All-Africa Games African Games medalists in field hockey {{SouthAfrica-fieldhockey-bio-stub