Sutton Coldfield’s Laura Unsworth becomes most-decorated GB hockey star<\/p>\n

Unsworth helped Britain beat India in a 4-3 thriller to claim bronze and keep their proud place on the women’s hockey podium.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Unsworth, 33, became the first British male or female hockey player to capture three Olympic medals \u2013 bronze in London and Tokyo, and gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cTo be honest, it probably is up there with the Rio gold medal,\u201d she said. \u201cThe things we have had to overcome as a team, people don\u2019t know about. As a squad, we stuck together. We have been resilient \u2013 we fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf someone told me when I first started playing hockey when I was 11 that I would win three Olympic medals, I would have just looked at them and said: \u2018you what\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sutton Coldfield’s Laura Unsworth becomes most-decorated GB hockey star Unsworth helped Britain beat India in a 4-3 thriller to claim bronze and keep their proud place on the women’s hockey podium. Unsworth, 33, became the first British male or female hockey player to capture three Olympic medals \u2013 bronze in London and Tokyo, and gold … Continue reading “Sutton Coldfield’s Laura Unsworth becomes most-decorated GB hockey star”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t