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{{Short description|Australian field hockey player}}
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{{MedalCompetition|[[Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1988 Summer Olympics|1988 Seoul]]|Team Competition}}
{{MedalGold|[[1996 Summer Olympics|1996 Atlanta]]|Team Competition}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Women's Hockey World Cup|World Cup]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1990 Women's Hockey World Cup|1990 Sydney]]|Team Competition}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Champions Trophy (field hockey)|Champions Trophy]]}}
{{MedalGold| [[1991 Women's Champions Trophy (field hockey)|1991 Berlin]] | Team Competition}}
{{MedalGold|[[1993 Women's Champions Trophy (field hockey)|1993 Amstelveen]]|Team Competition}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1987 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy|1987 Amstelveen]]|Team Competition}}
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'''Liane Marianne Tooth''', [[Order of Australia|OAM]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hockey.org.au/index.php?id=174|archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20120424214725/http://www.hockey.org.au/index.php?id=174|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 April 2012|title=Liane Tooth OAM|publisher=Hockey Australia|accessdate=8 January 2012}}</ref> (born 13 March 1962 in Sydney, [[New South Wales]]) is a retired [[field hockey]] forward, who twice won the gold medal with the Australian Women's Hockey Team, best known as the ''Hockeyroos'', at the [[Summer Olympics]]: in [[Seoul]] (1988) and in [[Atlanta, Georgia]] (1996).

Tooth was the first female hockey player to compete in four Olympic Games (1984 to 1996). She began playing field hockey at school in Sydney. Since 1994 she has devoted much of her professional life to increasing sporting opportunities and physical activity, particularly for girls and women; for the Active Women unit of the WA Department of Sport and Recreation. Most recently she has been working for the same department as an Officiating and Coaching Consultant, helping to develop officials such as referees and judges, and coaches.

She was inducted into the [[Sport Australia Hall of Fame]] in 1996.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sahof.org.au/hall-of-fame-member/liane-tooth/|title=Liane Tooth|publisher=Sport Australia Hall of Fame|accessdate=25 September 2020}}</ref> She was one of the eight flag-bearers of the [[Olympic Flag]] at the opening ceremony of the [[2000 Summer Olympics]] in Sydney, [[New South Wales]], Australia.

Liane is the daughter of the former Australian Wallaby and Rugby test captain Dr Richard 'Dick' Murray Tooth, a most versatile and prominent back-line player, who was admired for his contribution to Australian rugby in an era where the game struggled to make an impact on the national scene.

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