Giselle Kañevsky
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| Full name | Giselle Andrea Kañevsky | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | August 4, 1985 Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Defender | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Hacoaj | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ???–Present | Hacoaj | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2005 | Argentina U21 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006–2011 | Argentina | 134 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Giselle Andrea Kañevsky (born August 4, 1985, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine field hockey player who is a defender on the national women's hockey team "Las Leonas".[1][2][3]
Kañevsky is Jewish.[4][5] She started playing at age seven, at the country Los Cardales, 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 Women's Hockey World Cup.
In August 2008, she won a bronze medal with the national women's hockey team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[6] In September of the same year she moved to the Netherlands to play with the first ladies team of Haagsche Delftsche Mixed Hockey Club (HDM).
See also
- List of select Jewish field hockey players
References
- ↑ "Hockeyroos suffer injury blow in warm-up draw". The Sydney Morning Herald. August 3, 2008. Retrieved July 6, 2011.
- ↑ "Hockey Sobre Cesped; El primer rugidito". Olé | Diario Deportivo. May 14, 2010. Retrieved July 6, 2011.
- ↑ Independent Newspapers Online (June 5, 2009). "Argentina cruise into final". IOL.co.za. Retrieved July 6, 2011.
- ↑ Erica Lyons. "Kol Hakavod to the Beijing Medal Winners and other Achievements". Jewish Times Asia. Retrieved July 6, 2011.
- ↑ "Jewish Athletes Vie for Medals at Olympics". The Canadian Jewish News. August 14, 2008. Retrieved July 6, 2011.
- ↑ "Argentina names Olympic hockey team". The Hindu. June 3, 2008. Retrieved July 6, 2011.
External links
- Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
- (Spanish) Confederación Argentina de Hockey (Argentine Hockey Confederation)
- sports-reference
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