Richard Dodds

Richard David Allan Dodds OBE (born 23 February 1959) is a former field hockey player, who was captain of the gold medal-winning Great Britain team at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Four years earlier, at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, he won the bronze medal.

After learning the game at the notable hockey nursery of Kingston Grammar School, Dodds went on to win the highest honors. He won a Blue at Cambridge while attending St. Catharine’s College and also played for St. Thomas’s Hospital. After winning an Olympic bronze medal in 1984 and silver medals at the 1986 World Cup and 1987 European Cup, the highlight of his career came when he captained the British team to victory at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Dodds, a mid-field player with Southgate, won 79 caps for England, played 65 times for Great Britain and was awarded the OBE for his services to hockey. He also captained the England team which won the silver medal at the Hockey World Cup in 1986. Dodds played club hockey for Southgate. Dodds currently plays veterans hockey with Reading Hockey Club's Rustlers XI, alongside other former Olympians Don Williams, Rob Thompson and John Shaw

Dodds later became a surgeon at St. Peter’s Hospital, Chertsey. He currently works as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, United Kingdom.

References

• British Olympic Committee
• sports-reference

External links

• Sunday Times article 2 August, 2009