Giselle Andrea Kañevsky (born August 4, 1985, in

Buenos Aires Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...

) is an

Argentine Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or (feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, s ...

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 who plays as a defender on the Argentina national team. Kañevsky is Jewish She started playing at age seven in ''Los Cardales'' Club, moving to Náutico Hacoaj three years later. In 2005, she was part of the National Junior Championship, and a year later had her debut with the senior team, finishing third at the

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. In August 2008, she won the bronze medal with the national field hockey team at the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

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. In September of the same year she moved to the Netherlands to play with the team of

Haagsche Delftsche Mixed Hockey Club Haagse Hockeyvereniging "Haagsche Delftsche Mixed", commonly known as hdm, is a Dutch field hockey club based in The Hague, South Holland. The club was founded on 8 February 1908, when students from Delft wanted to play hockey with their girlfrien ...

(HDM). In 2010, she won the

held in

Rosario Rosario () is the largest city in the central provinces of Argentina, Argentine province of Santa Fe Province, Santa Fe. The city is located northwest of Buenos Aires, on the west bank of the Paraná River. Rosario is the third-most populous ci ...

, Argentina. In 2019, she returned to the national team after an eight-year gap under the coaching of

Carlos Retegui Carlos José Retegui (born 19 December 1969) is an Argentine retired field hockey player, who is nicknamed ''Chapa''. He was a member of the National squad from 1989 to 2006 and competed in three Summer Olympics (1996, 2000 and 2004). In 2006 he ...

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Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

''Confederación Argentina de Hockey'' (Argentine Hockey Confederation)
1985 births Living people Argentine Jews Argentine female field hockey players Las Leonas players Olympic field hockey players of Argentina Field hockey players at the 2007 Pan American Games Field hockey players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Argentina Argentine people of Russian-Jewish descent Field hockey players from Buenos Aires Jewish sportspeople Olympic medalists in field hockey Jewish Argentine sportspeople Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Pan American Games gold medalists for Argentina Pan American Games medalists in field hockey South American Games gold medalists for Argentina South American Games medalists in field hockey Competitors at the 2006 South American Games Field hockey players at the 2019 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games 21st-century Argentine women {{Argentina-Olympic-medalist-stub

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