Julie Ashton-Lucy (born 29 November 1965) is an international

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umpire An umpire is an official in a variety of sports and competition, responsible for enforcing the rules of the sport, including sportsmanship decisions such as ejection. The term derives from the Old French nonper, ''non'', "not" and ''per'', ...

from

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, Australia. She was honored as

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2005 Official of the Year. She has umpired at 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games, the 2002, 2006 and 2010

Hockey World Cup The Men's FIH Hockey World Cup is an international field hockey competition organised by the International Hockey Federation (FIH). The tournament was started in 1971. It is held every four years, bridging the four years between the Summer O ...

, as well as the 2004,

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and

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Summer Olympics, where she umpired the

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of the 2012 tournament. On 13 September 2000, Ashton-Lucy was awarded the

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References

External links

Hockey Australia website

Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth games website
1965 births Living people Women's field hockey umpires Australian field hockey umpires Recipients of the Australian Sports Medal Australian female field hockey players Australian women referees and umpires 20th-century Australian women Field hockey people from Queensland {{australia-fieldhockey-bio-stub