Dirkie Chamberlain
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3 November 1986 Pretoria, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 67 kg (148 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Forward | ||||||||||||||||
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| Current club | HGC | ||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Caps | Goals | ||||||||||||||
| 2006-2024 | South Africa | 250 | (130) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022-2024 | South Africa Hockey5 | 10 | (13) | ||||||||||||||
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| Last updated on: 10 August 2024 | |||||||||||||||||
Dirkie Chamberlain (born 3 November 1986) is a South African field hockey player.
International career
[edit | edit source]Chamberlain is a 1x Olympian, played 4 World Cups, 3 Commonwealth Games.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed with the South Africa women's national field hockey team in the women's tournament.[1] She has also competed at the 2010 and 2014 Commonwealth Games.[2][3] and 2018 Commonwealth Games.[4]
Chamberlain currently plays at the HGC.[5][6] In the past, has also played various European leagues; with clubs including Holcombe Hockey Club,[7] Kampong (Dutch Hoofdklasse),[8] Canterbury HC (Investec English Premier League)[9] and Gantoise HC (Belgium Honour Division).
She retired from her international career post the Olympic Games.[10]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Chamberlain began playing hockey when she was 13.[2] She is openly lesbian.[11]
References
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External links
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- Dirkie Chamberlain at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
- Dirkie Chamberlain at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (archived)
- Dirkie Chamberlain at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games (archived)
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- 1986 births
- Living people
- South African female field hockey players
- South African expatriate field hockey players
- Female field hockey forwards
- Olympic field hockey players for South Africa
- Field hockey players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games field hockey players for South Africa
- Field hockey players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Field hockey players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Field hockey players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Holcombe Hockey Club players
- HGC (field hockey) players
- SV Kampong players
- South African lesbian sportswomen
- LGBTQ field hockey players
- Sportspeople from Pretoria
- 21st-century South African sportswomen
- South African field hockey biography stubs