Linda Watson, Date of Birth

    

Linda Watson

field hockey player

Date of Birth: 15-Sep-1955

Profession: field hockey player, athletics competitor

Nationality: Zimbabwe

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


Show Famous Birthdays Today, Zimbabwe

👉 Worldwide Celebrity Birthdays Today

About Linda Watson

  • Linda Margaret Watson (born September 15, 1955) 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.
  • Watson was also one of Zimbabwe's top hurdlers and sprinters. 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 at Wikipedia