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Karen Brown

Personal information
Born	(1963-01-09) 9 January 1963 (age 61) Redhill, Surrey, England
Medal record Women's field hockey Representing  Great Britain Olympic Games 1992 Barcelona Team Representing  England Commonwealth Games 1998 Kuala Lumpur Team European Nations Cup 1991 Brussels Team 1987 London Team 1999 Cologne Team

Karen Brown MBE (born 9 January 1963) is a former field hockey defender, who was a member of the British squad that won the bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Commonwealth Silver medal and European Gold

Brown is England and Great Britain's second-highest capped player of all time, with 355 caps to her name. Her record was broken by Kate Richardson-Walsh in February 2016 during a test series with Australia, where Brown was working as Assistant Coach in the GB Team.

She competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988. Brown retired in 1999, having played for England on 179 occasions & Great Britain 176. Brown (England, March 1984 – August 1999) played a total of 355 international matches and has the most (5) appearances in the European Championship.

Coaching career

She was Assistant Coach for both the Great Britain and England hockey teams and part of the management teams that secured a World Cup bronze with England in 2010, Olympic bronze with Great Britain at the London Olympics, European Gold in 2015 and Olympic Gold at the Rio Olympics.

She stepped down from her role as Assistant Coach in January 2017, with the intention of working for England and GB Hockey in a coach development capacity.

References

1. "The Official Team England Handbook & Guide The Commonwealth Games 2014". Commonwealth Games England. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
2. ^ "Brown and Keegan step down from coaching roles".

External links

• Karen Brown at the International Hockey Federation
• Karen Brown at Olympics.com
• Karen Brown at Olympedia
• Karen Brown at Team GB
• Karen Brown at databaseOlympics.com (archived)
• Karen Brown at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)

Karen Brown – International tournaments

v t e England squad – 1987 European Nations Cup – Runners-up 1 Cook 2 Hallam 3 Atkins 4 G. Brown 5 K. Brown 6 Cheetham 7 Dixon 8 Goodridge 9 Hambly (c) 10 Crook 11 Lister 12 Parker 13 Rule 14 Sixsmith 15 Smith 16 Williams Coach: Slocombe v t e Great Britain squad – 1987 Champions Trophy – 5th place 1 Atkins 2 Banks 3 G. Brown 4 K. Brown 5 Nevill 6 Cook 7 Dixon 8 Fraser 9 Hambly (c) 10 Jordan 11 McBride 12 MacLeod 13 Rule 14 Messenger 15 Parker 16 Ramsay Coach: Hay v t e Great Britain squad – 1988 Summer Olympics – 4th place 1 Atkins 2 Banks 3 G. Brown 4 K. Brown 5 Nevill 6 Cook 7 Dixon 8 Fraser 9 Hambly (c) 10 Jordan 11 McBride 12 MacLeod 13 Brewer 14 Sixsmith 15 Parker 16 Ramsay Coach: Hay v t e England squad – 1990 FIH World Cup – 4th place 1 Hallam 2 Thompson 3 Sowerby 4 Brown 5 Lister (c) 6 Atkins 7 Dixon 8 Parker 9 Langridge 10 Nevill 11 Lewis 12 Rewer 13 Miller 14 Edwards 15 Fry 16 Sixsmith Coach: Hay v t e England squad – 1991 European Nations Cup – Champions (1st Title) 1 Hallam 2 Thompson 3 Sowerby 4 Brown 5 Lister 6 Atkins 7 Dixon 8 Bayliss 9 Langridge 10 Nevill 11 Lewis 12 Smith 13 Miller 14 Johnson 15 Lee 16 Sixsmith Coach: — v t e Great Britain squad – 1992 Summer Olympics – Bronze medal 1 Thompson 2 Morgan 3 Bayliss 4 Brown 5 Nevill (c) 6 Atkins 7 Dixon 8 W. Fraser 9 Lister 10 Sixsmith 11 Ramsay 12 McWilliams 13 Miller 14 Nicholls 15 Johnson 16 S. Fraser Coach: Hay v t e Great Britain squad – 1996 Summer Olympics – 4th place 1 Thompson 2 Rose 3 Cook 4 Cullen 6 Brown 7 Atkins 8 Fraser 9 Simpson 10 Nicholls 11 Sixsmith 12 Robertson (c) 13 Mould 14 Miller 15 Bennett 16 Davies 17 Johnson Coach: Slocombe v t e Great Britain squad – 1996 Summer Olympics – 4th place 1 Thompson 2 Rose 3 Cook 4 Cullen 6 Brown 7 Atkins 8 Fraser 9 Simpson 10 Nicholls 11 Sixsmith 12 Robertson (c) 13 Mould 14 Miller 15 Bennett 16 Davies 17 Johnson Coach: Slocombe v t e England squad – 1998 FIH World Cup – 9th place 1 Rose 2 Reid 3 Empson 4 Smith 5 Brown 6 Clewlow 7 Cullen 8 Bowden (c) 9 Copeland 10 Sixsmith 11 Wright 12 Mould 13 Bimson 14 Moore 15 Greenham 16 Miller Coach: Souyave v t e England squad – 1998 Commonwealth Games – Silver medal 1 Rose 2 Reid 3 Empson 4 Smith 5 Brown 6 Clewlow 7 Cullen 8 Bowden (c) 9 Nicholls 10 Sixsmith 11 Wright 12 Marston-Smith 13 Bimson 14 Moore 15 Greenham 16 Newcombe Coach: Souyave v t e England squad – 1999 European Nations Cup – 3rd place 1 Rose 2 Reid 3 Empson 4 Smith 5 Brown 6 Clewlow 7 Cullen 8 Bowden (c) 9 Nicholson 10 Sixsmith 11 Wright 12 Richardson 14 Greenham 21 Chandler 22 Walsh 25 King 28 Catchpole 29 Bennett Coach: Souyave

• English female field hockey players
• English field hockey coaches
• Field hockey players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
• Field hockey players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
• Field hockey players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
• Olympic field hockey players for Great Britain
• British female field hockey players
• Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain
• 1963 births
• Living people
• Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
• Sportspeople from Redhill, Surrey
• Sportspeople from Surrey
• Olympic medalists in field hockey
• Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
• Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey
• Members of the Order of the British Empire
• Field hockey players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
• Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
• 20th-century English sportswomen