Ayelén Iara Stepnik (born November 22, 1975) is a retired

field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ci ...

player from

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

who won the silver medal at the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 ...

in Sydney and the bronze medal at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

in Athens with the National field hockey team. Ayelén also won the

2002 World Cup The 2002 FIFA World Cup, also branded as Korea Japan 2002, was the 17th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial Association football, football world championship for List of men's national association football teams, men's national teams organized by ...

, the 2001 Champions Trophy and two

Pan American Games The Pan American Games (also known colloquially as the Pan Am Games) is a continental multi-sport event in the Americas featuring summer sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The competition is held ...

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* 1975 births Living people Argentine female field hockey players Las Leonas players Olympic field hockey players of Argentina Field hockey players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Argentina Olympic bronze medalists for Argentina Argentine people of Polish descent Olympic medalists in field hockey Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Rosario, Santa Fe Pan American Games gold medalists for Argentina Pan American Games medalists in field hockey Atlètic Terrassa players Field hockey players at the 1999 Pan American Games Field hockey players at the 2003 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games {{Argentina-fieldhockey-bio-stub