The strength and conditioning coach who helped Team GB's triumphant women's hockey team to gold medal success, will soon be swapping talk of medals for rings.

Ben Rosenblatt, who has been working with the squad for the past three years, is due to get married to his fiancée, Coral, in Devon next month.

He returned to Britain from Rio on Tuesday, just hours after his squad arrived to celebratory scenes at Heathrow, and said that the backroom staff were "really proud and happy with the job done" by the team.

The Finchley-born sports scientist described the historic hockey victory as a "team effort", but he has not come away from the Olympics with a golden memento of his own.

He explained: "The players get medals but the support staff and coaches don't. They go and win the thing; our job is to make sure they are prepared to compete and to win in those environments."

While in Rio, he spent part of his time socialising with fellow Jewish Olympians.

"Team GB's apartment block was right next to the Israeli block", he said.

The 31-year-old is now due to start a new job at the Football Association as a physical performance coach.

"I won't be working with the senior England team," he said. "But I'll be working across all the age groups and putting a strategy in place to develop their physical performance."

Dr Rosenblatt is the son of Ian Rosenblatt, a senior lawyer who, earlier this summer, was awarded the OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours, for philanthropic services to music.

He grew up participating regularly in Jewish sport, playing in the Maccabi League and subsequently with the Wingate and Finchley amateur football club.

But he said that his career had rarely brought him in to contact with professional Jewish sportsmen or women.

"Hundreds of Jewish kids turn up and play football every week, and play all these other sports when they're growing up. But for one reason or another they don't seem to continue it past their teenage years," he said.

"Maybe it's not on everybody's radar within the Jewish community that they can have a career in elite sport," Dr Rosenblatt added.