Inés Arrondo (born 28 November 1977) is a retired

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player from

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, who won the silver medal with the national women's hockey team at the

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and a bronze medal at the

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in Athens. Inés has also won the

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in 2002 and the Champions Trophy in 2001. Having retired from her sporting career, she entered politics in

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when she ran for a seat in the Buenos Aires Province Senate in the Justicialist Front list, led by

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. She failed to win a seat. Since 2019, she has been Secretary of Sports in Argentina's Ministry of Tourism and Sports, working alongside minister Matías Lammens. She is the first woman to hold the post.

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Inés Arrondo portrait
1977 births Living people Argentine female field hockey players 21st-century Argentine sportswomen Argentine sportsperson-politicians Las Leonas players Olympic field hockey players for Argentina Sportspeople from Mar del Plata Field hockey players from Buenos Aires Province Field hockey players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Argentina Olympic bronze medalists for Argentina Olympic medalists in field hockey Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Pan American Games gold medalists for Argentina Pan American Games gold medalists in field hockey Field hockey players at the 1999 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games {{Argentina-fieldhockey-bio-stub