Mariana Rossi (born 2 January 1979 in
Vicente López,
Buenos Aires
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) is an
Argentine 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 ...
player, who won a bronze medal with the
national women's hockey team at the
2008 Summer Olympics in
Beijing
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. Mariana has also won the
World Cup
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in 2010, two
Champions Trophy (2008, 2010) and the gold medal at the
Pan American Cup in 2013.
External links
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The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic GamesConfederación Argentina de HockeyOfficial site of the Argentine Hockey Confederation
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1979 births
Argentine people of Italian descent
Living people
Argentine female field hockey players
Las Leonas players
Female field hockey defenders
Olympic field hockey players for Argentina
Field hockey players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Argentina
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Vicente López Partido
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