María José Granatto (born 21 April 1995) 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 ci ...

player who plays as a forward for Argentine club and the Argentina national team. She is the younger sister of Argentina's hockey player and teammate

Victoria Granatto María Victoria Granatto (born 9 April 1991) is an Argentine field hockey player. She's an elder sister of Argentina's hockey player and teammate María José Granatto. She plays with the Argentina national field hockey team, winning silver meda ...

. She was part of the Argentine team at the

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in Rio de Janeiro and won the silver medal at the

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Career

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

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in Argentina. At the 2016 and 2017 Hockey Stars Awards she won the FIH Rising Star of the Year. She was part of the national squad that won the 2022 Pan American Cup, being elected as the best player of the tournament.

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* 1995 births Living people Las Leonas players Olympic field hockey players for Argentina Argentine people of Italian descent Argentine female field hockey players Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from La Plata Female field hockey forwards Expatriate field hockey players Argentine expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands HC Oranje-Rood players Field hockey players at the 2019 Pan American Games Pan American Games medalists in field hockey Pan American Games gold medalists for Argentina Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games Olympic silver medalists for Argentina Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in field hockey 21st-century Argentine women {{Argentina-fieldhockey-bio-stub