Tomás Argento (born 24 September 1986 in
Buenos Aires
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) is a
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 ...
striker 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 made his debut for the
national squad in 2005, after having played the Junior World Cup in
Rotterdam
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,
The Netherlands
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. He finished in tenth position with his national team at the
2006 Men's Hockey World Cup
The 2006 Men's Hockey World Cup was the 11th edition of the Hockey World Cup men's field hockey tournament. It was held 6–17 September 2006 in Mönchengladbach, Germany.
Germany won the tournament for second consecutive time after defeating Aus ...
in
Mönchengladbach
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. Tomás won two medals at the
Pan American Games
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, two at the
Champions Challenge and one at the
Champions Trophy.
References
Argentine Hockey FederationOlympic profile
1986 births
Argentine sportspeople of Italian descent
Living people
Argentine male field hockey players
Male field hockey forwards
2006 Men's Hockey World Cup players
Field hockey players at the 2007 Pan American Games
2010 Men's Hockey World Cup players
Field hockey players from Buenos Aires
Pan American Games gold medalists for Argentina
Pan American Games silver 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
Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games
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