María Mercedes "Mechi" Margalot (born June 28, 1975 in

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) is a retired

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player from

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, who won the silver medal with the national field hockey team at the

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in Sydney. Four years later, when Athens, Greece hosted The Games, she won the bronze medal with the Argentine squad. Mercedes also won the bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in

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, the

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in 2002, two Champions Trophy (2001, 2008), three medals at the Pan American Games (1999, 2003, 2007) and the Pan American Cup in 2001. Margalot played club hockey in the

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, first for Oranje Zwart of Eindhoven and then for Push of Breda.

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