Anthea Stewart
Personal information
Birth nameAnthea Dorine Stewart
BornNovember 20, 1944 (1944-11-20) (age 79)
Blantyre, Nyasaland
Medal record
Women's field hockey
Representing  Zimbabwe
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place1980 MoscowTeam Competition

Anthea Dorine Stewart (born November 20, 1944) is a former field hockey player who was a member of the Zimbabwe national women's team that won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.[1] Previously, she had represented South Africa between 1963 and 1974.

Because of the boycott of the United States and other countries, only one team was available to compete in the women's field hockey tournament: the hosting USSR team. A late request was sent to the government of Zimbabwe, which quickly assembled a team less than a week before the competition started. To everyone's surprise, they won, claiming Zimbabwe's only medal in the 1980 Games.[2] Not only was it Zimbabwe's only medal, it was the first medal given for women's field hockey in Olympic history.[3]

Stewart is the mother of international diver Evan Stewart,[4] who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1992 in Barcelona, Spain.

References

  1. ↑ England, Andrew (8 June 2012). "Sarah English, Anthea Stewart, Patricia Davies: Zimbabwe". Financial Times. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  2. ↑ "Golden girl goes down memory lane - The Standard". The Standard. 2 July 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  3. ↑ Nielsen, Erik (2016). The British world and the five rings. Nielsen, Erik (College teacher),, Llewellyn, Matthew P. London: Routledge. ISBN 9781138909588. OCLC 912379157.
  4. ↑ Ndemera, Tendai (6 April 2002). "Zimbabwe: Talent Runs in the Stewart Family". The Herald (Harare). Retrieved 27 November 2017.


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