Giselle Andrea Kañevsky (born August 4, 1985, in

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) is an

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player who plays as a defender on the Argentina national team. Kañevsky is Jewish. She started playing hockey at age seven in ''Los Cardales'' Club, moving to Náutico Hacoaj three years later. In 2005, she was part of the National Junior Championship, and a year later had her debut with the senior team, finishing third at the

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. In August 2008, she won the bronze medal with the national field hockey team at the

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. In September of the same year she moved to the Netherlands to play with the team of Haagsche Delftsche Mixed Hockey Club (HDM). In 2010, she won the

held in

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, Argentina. In 2019, she returned to the national team after an eight-year gap under the coaching of

Carlos Retegui Carlos José Retegui (born 19 December 1969) is an Argentine retired field hockey player. He was a member of the National squad from 1989 to 2006 and competed in three Summer Olympics (1996, 2000 and 2004). In 2006 he was dismissed from the natio ...

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''Confederación Argentina de Hockey'' (Argentine Hockey Confederation)
1985 births Living people Argentine female field hockey players Las Leonas players Olympic field hockey players for Argentina Field hockey players at the 2007 Pan American Games Field hockey players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Argentina Argentine people of Russian-Jewish descent Field hockey players from Buenos Aires Olympic medalists in field hockey Jewish Argentine sportspeople Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Pan American Games gold medalists for Argentina Pan American Games gold 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 Field hockey players at the 2019 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games 21st-century Argentine sportswomen {{Argentina-Olympic-medalist-stub

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