Jennie Bimson Bio - Biography

Name Jennie Bimson
Height
Naionality English
Date of Birth 13-October-1976
Place of Birth Wordsley, West Midlands
Famous for Hockey Player
Jennie Bimson is a retired English field hockey player. A former member of the England and Great Britain women's field hockey team during the late 1990s and 2000s, she played in midfield and as a forward.

Bimson first played for England, against Germany, in 1997. She has played in three World Cups and European Cups. She has 155 caps for England and more than 30 for Great Britain. She won two silver medals at the Commonwealth Games. She has also won two bronze medals at the European Cup, most recently in Manchester (2007), securing qualification for the Olympics in the process. In Britain she played for Leicester and worked in sports public relations and marketing. Bimson fractured her cheek/eye socket and jaw during a 2006 World Cup game against India. A stick hit her in the face but she played the rest of the tournament under the impression from the tournament doctor that it was not broken.

She went home and the team doctor sent her for scans. Two days later an operation put a metal plate in her cheek bone, which was broken in three places. She retired from hockey after the 2008 Olympics.