Samantha Ann Quek, MBE, is an English former field hockey player and television personality. She played as a defender for both the England and Great Britain teams. She won gold as part of the British team at the 2016 Summer Olympics. In September 2016, a group of Russian hackers calling themselves “Fancy Bears” hacked into the WADA database and revealed that Quek had been granted a Therapeutic Use Exempt.
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Samantha Ann Quek, MBE, is an English former field hockey player and television personality. She played as a defender for both the England and Great Britain teams, wearing squad number 13. She won gold as part of the British team at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Quek has presented various television sports shows, including American football on the BBC, rugby union on Channel 5, field hockey on BT Sport, and football for Channel 4 and LFC TV. She has also appeared as a contestant on shows including I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! in 2016 and Celebrity Masterchef in 2020, where she reached the final three. In September 2016, a group of Russian hackers calling themselves “Fancy Bears” hacked into the WADA database and revealed that Quek had been granted a Therapeutic Use Exempt (TUE) for various medical prescriptions.
She responded to the leak in 2008, stating that she had only operated within sporting guidelines, but that she was concerned that the nature of these hacks could stigmatise the future use of TUEs to the detriment of athletes. She was signed to Tranmere Rovers FC as a junior professional footballer at the age of 16, and played for the club until she was 21. She is the sister of former England footballer David Quek and the brother of former Manchester United player David Que. Que. She also has a twin brother, Albert Quek. She currently lives in the Wirral Peninsula with her husband and their two children, and works as a personal trainer.
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