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Arlene Boxall

Arlene Boxall

Zimbabwean field hockey player

Arlene Boxall (born 9 October 1961) is a former field hockey player from Zimbabwe, who was a member of the national team that won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. The youngest member of the team at 18 years old, she was its reserve goalkeeper.[1] She never came onto the field, but still received a gold medal alongside her teammates.[2]

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At the time she was an operations clerk in Air Force of Zimbabwe.

References

  1. [1]
    "Moscow Olympics 1980 – Zimbabwe Women's Hockey Gold Medallists" (commemorative booklet). Salisbury: Zimbabwe Olympic Committee. 1980. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. [2]
    Byrom, Glen; McDermott, Dave; Streak, Brian (1980). Rhodesian Sports Profiles, 1907–1979: with a supplementary feature on the Zimbabwe women's hockey team to the Moscow Olympics, 1980. Bulawayo: Books of Zimbabwe. pp. 249–253. ISBN 978-0-86920-217-3.


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