| Flora Peel | |
| Birth Date: | 1996 9, df=yes[1] |
| Birth Place: | Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England[2] |
| Position: | Midfield |
| Currentclub: | Wimbledon Hockey Club |
| Nationalyears1: | 2022– |
| Nationalteam1: | England |
| Nationalcaps1: | 30 |
| Nationalgoals1: | 1 |
| Nationalyears2: | 2022– |
| Nationalteam2: | Great Britain |
| Nationalcaps2: | 19 |
| Nationalgoals2: | 0 |
| Updated: | 18 June 2024 |
Flora Peel (born 18 September 1996) is an English field hockey player who won a gold medal as part of the England team at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. She was also a member of the Great Britain squad at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Having previously played international hockey at youth level,[3] Peel made her senior England debut in February 2022 in the FIH Pro League.[4] [2] [3] [5]
She set up both goals as England beat Australia 2–1 to win Commonwealth Games hockey gold for the first time at Birmingham 2022.[2] [6] [7] [8]
Selected for the training squad earlier in the year,[9] Peel made her first appearance for Great Britain against Argentina on 15 December 2022.[1] [10]
After missing the previous year's Women's FIH Hockey World Cup due to injury,[11] [12] [5] she was in the England team that placed fourth at the 2023 Women's EuroHockey Championship.[5] [12] [13]
On 18 June 2024, Peel was named in the 16-player Great Britain squad to compete at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.[5] [12] [14] [15] The team went out in the quarter-finals.[16]
Born in Cheltenham, Peel spent much of her childhood living in France where she learned to ski, going on to win a British Skiing Championships title in slalom.[2] [12] [5] She attended the University of Birmingham.[17] Her five-times great-grandfather is former United Kingdom Prime Minister and Metropolitan Police founder Sir Robert Peel.[2] [6] [18]