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Helen Volk

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Helen Volk (born 29 March 1954) 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. 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 the African nation, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2024). Helen Volk is the 2,367th most popular athlete (up from 4,052nd in 2024). (up from 5,083rd in 2019)

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Among athletes, Helen Volk ranks 2,367 out of 6,025. Before her are Heike Henkel, Shaun White, William Steinkraus, Katie Nageotte, Nikolaos Kaklamanakis, and Ernest Chapman. After her are Vic Emery, Shaunae Miller-Uibo, Jean-Michel Henry, Nikolai Sologubov, James Mitchel, and Olga Homeghi.

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Among people born in 1954, Helen Volk ranks 612. Before her are Allison Anders, Wendy Schaal, Carita Holmström, Peter Laird, Alex Cox, and Ken Wahl. After her are Kwame Anthony Appiah, David Newman, Julie Carmen, Cass Sunstein, Anuradha Paudwal, and Roxanne Seeman.

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