Rochester-based Olympic gold medallist Sam Quek was among 26 athletes whose medical details were published by a computer hacking team this week.

It showed that hockey star Sam was given permission – a therapeutic use exemption (TUE) – to use a banned drug to treat her asthma.

The Holcombe player said the Fancy Bears hackers wrongly linked TUEs to cheating and called it a “pathetic attempt to smear me personally and Team GB as a whole”.

She added: “I am 100% a clean athlete, so it’s probably worked in my favour that the findings back up I am a clean athlete.”

Records stolen from the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) showed Sam received permission to use an inhaler with salbutamol in 2008.

The drug was effectively removed from the banned list in 2010, when the rules were eased.

Sam, 27, told BBC Sport she was worried about a player, in her situation in future, chasing their Olympic dream and pushing their bodies to the limit.

“She will get out of breath due to asthma and will need an inhaler, not to get an unfair advantage, but to breathe, to make sure she does not die.”

“Yet she will think twice about using one, or perhaps use it and feel guilty about doing so or worse still, refuse to use it completely,” she added.

Pupils have been writing to Sam Quek and her fellow Holcombe golden girls Maddie Hinch, Nicola White and Shona McCallin about their Olympic memories.

The Temple Mill primary school children are posting the letters in a golden postbox which will travel to local schools before returning to the hockey club.

Martin McCusker, head teacher, said: “It’s a fantastic opportunity using the medal to inspire the children to write and as a school we have had a link with Holcombe over the last few years and its a great opportunity to get involved in their success.”

The postbox was made by carpenter Terry Malone who created one for Winter Olympic champion Lizzy Yarnold in 2014.