Felicity Field

Despite being born in England, Felicity Field and her family moved to California, where her South-African-born father was a successful architect, when she was two-years-of-age. Educated in Switzerland in her teens, Field took up skiing at the age of 14 and became the 1964 British girls´ junior champion, beating the defending champion Helen Jamieson into second place.

A former senior British champion, Field, affectionately known as “Bunny”, went to the 1966 World Championships in Chile. She then went to the 1968 Winter Olympics and took part in the downhill, slalom, and giant-slalom, and in the former event finished a remarkable sixth, ahead of the more fancied British women, Davina Galica and Gina Hathorn. Field´s sixth place remains the best by a British woman in the Olympic downhill through the 2022 Beijing Winter Games.

After the Grenoble Games, Field retired from major competitive skiing for a year and in 1969 was appointed manager of the British girls´ team. She made a comeback to compete in the 1970 World Cup. Field inaugurated the “Bunny Field Challenge Cup” to be presented to the highest-placed finisher (who was not a member of the national team at the time) in the women´s National Alpine Championships.