Player Profile
Hannah French has flourished since making her international debut back in 2017, becoming a crucial player for both the England and GB teams. She first picked up a hockey stick in Year 4 at Ipswich School and has never looked back, with her older brother Harry the perfect role model to look up to and emulate.
Hannah has certainly caught the eye with her rapid hands and dazzling skills, a constant source of frustration to defenders and often chipping in with vital goals. No better was this proved than at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, where she scored four goals on the way to helping Great Britain win bronze — adding to medals of the same colour won with England at European and Commonwealth events. What made her Olympic medal even more special was that it came just four months after she sustained a broken leg and ankle ligament damage.
In the summer of 2022, she helped England win Commonwealth Games gold on home soil at Birmingham — at her own University of Birmingham, scoring a decisive shootout goal in the semi-final against New Zealand — and played in her second World Cup.
A double Olympian, she went on to represent Great Britain at the Paris 2024 Olympics, taking her past 150 combined caps, before spending the 2024 off-season playing in Australia's Hockey One League for NSW Pride, where the team won bronze. She has since returned to the England fold, making her comeback to the squad for the 2026 World Cup after rupturing her ACL at the end of 2025.
