Ezequiel Paulón (born January 4, 1976, in

Puerto Deseado Puerto Deseado, originally called Port Desire, is a city of about 15,000 inhabitants and a fishing port in Patagonia in Santa Cruz Province of Argentina, on the estuary of the Deseado River. It was named ''Port Desire'' by the privateer Thomas ...

, Santa Cruz) is a

field hockey Field hockey (or simply referred to as hockey in some countries where ice hockey is not popular) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalk ...

defender from

Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourt ...

who twice represented his country in the

Olympics The modern Olympic Games (Olympics; ) are the world's preeminent international sporting events. They feature summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competit ...

, in

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

and the

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

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* 1976 births Living people People from Puerto Deseado Sportspeople from Santa Cruz Province, Argentina Argentine male field hockey players Male field hockey defenders Olympic field hockey players for Argentina Field hockey players at the 2000 Summer Olympics 2002 Men's Hockey World Cup players Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics 2006 Men's Hockey World Cup players Pan American Games gold medalists for Argentina Pan American Games silver medalists for Argentina Pan American Games gold medalists in field hockey Pan American Games field hockey players for Argentina Pan American Games silver medalists in field hockey Field hockey players at the 1999 Pan American Games Field hockey players at the 2003 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games 20th-century Argentine sportsmen 21st-century Argentine sportsmen {{Argentina-fieldhockey-bio-stub