Mariné Russo (born January 9, 1980, in

Quilmes Quilmes () is a city on the coast of the Rio de la Plata, in the , on the southeast end of the Greater Buenos Aires, being some away from the urban centre area of Buenos Aires. The city was founded in 1666 and is the seat of the eponymous '' ...

) is a retired

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player from

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who won the bronze medal at 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 ...

and

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

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with the Argentina national team. Mariné also won two

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(

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

and

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

), four

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, the gold medal at the

2007 Pan American Games The 2007 Pan American Games, officially known as the XV Pan American Games () and commonly known as Rio 2007, were a major Americas, continental multi-sport event that took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from July 13 to 29, 2007. A total of ...

and two Pan American Cups. She was affiliated with Quilmes Atletico Club in

Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− glob ...

References

The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

Confederación Argentina de Hockey
Official site of the Argentine Hockey Confederation *

External links

* 1980 births Living people Argentine female field hockey players 21st-century Argentine sportswomen Las Leonas players Olympic field hockey players for Argentina Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Argentina Olympic medalists in field hockey Argentine sportspeople of Italian descent Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Pan American Games gold medalists for Argentina Pan American Games gold medalists in field hockey Pan American Games field hockey players for Argentina Field hockey players at the 2007 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games Sportspeople from Quilmes Field hockey players from Buenos Aires Province {{Argentina-Olympic-medalist-stub