Kent-based players dominate the TeamGB hockey squads for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games which were announced on Tuesday morning.

Susannah Townsend and Ashley Jackson both hail from the county while another 10 players are on the books of Rochester's Holcombe HC.

After missing out on a place in GB's bronze medal winning squad four years ago, Townsend, from Egerton, helped England to claim silver at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and gold at the European Championships in 2015.

The 26-year-old Canterbury Ladies star won her 100th cap in England's ill-fated Champions Trophy campaign last week which saw the home nation finish fifth in London.

It will be a third Olympic Games for GB men's talisman Jackson, born in Chatham and who, like Townsend attended Sutton Valence School.

Also in the women's squad are Holcs stars Sam Quek, 27, Nicola White, 28, Shona McCallin, 24, and Maddie Hinch, 27, who will leave the club to play in Holland after Rio.

Holcombe star Jackson, 28, who came through the ranks at Tunbridge Wells is joined in the 16-strong squad by teammates Nic Catlin, Dan Fox, Iain Lewers, skipper Barry Middleton, Sam Ward and keeper George Pinner.