Julieta Jankunas (born 20 January 1999) is an Argentine field hockey player and part of the Argentina national team. She plays with the Argentina national field hockey team, winning silver medal at the

2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...

Career

She participated in the

2014 Summer Youth Olympics The 2014 Summer Youth Olympics (), officially known as the II Summer Youth Olympic Games , and commonly known as Nanjing 2014 ( zh, c=南京2014, p=Nánjīng Èr Líng yī sì), were the second Summer Youth Olympic Games, an international sports ...

, and the

2016 Women's Hockey Junior World Cup The 2016 Women's Hockey Junior World Cup was the 8th edition of the Women's Hockey Junior World Cup. It was held from 24 November to 4 December 2016 in Santiago, Chile. Argentina won the tournament after defeating defending champions the Netherl ...

. She won a gold medal at the

2019 Pan American Games The 2019 Pan American Games ( es, Juegos Panamericanos de 2019, links=no), officially the XVIII Pan American Games and commonly known as the Lima 2019 Pan-Am Games or Lima 2019 ( qu, Limaq 2019), were a multi-sport event governed by the Panam Spo ...

. On club level she plays for Universitario de Córdoba in Argentina. In December 2019, she was nominated for the FIH Rising Star of the Year Award.

References

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1999 births Living people Las Leonas players Argentine female field hockey players Argentine people of Lithuanian descent Field hockey players at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Sportspeople from Córdoba, Argentina South American Games gold medalists for Argentina South American Games medalists in field hockey Female field hockey forwards Competitors at the 2018 South American Games Pan American Games medalists in field hockey Field hockey players at the 2019 Pan American Games Field hockey players at the 2023 Pan American Games Pan American Games gold medalists for Argentina Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic field hockey players for Argentina Olympic silver medalists for Argentina Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in field hockey {{Argentina-fieldhockey-bio-stub