Mercedes Margalot

Mercedes Margalot

Medal record
Women's Field Hockey
Competitor for  Argentina
Olympic Games
Silver 2000 Sydney Team
Bronze 2004 Athens Team
Bronze 2008 Beijing Team
World Cup
Gold 2002 Perth Team
Bronze 2006 Madrid Team
Champions Trophy
Gold 2001 Amstelveen Team
Gold 2008 Mönchengladbach Team
Silver 2002 Macau Team
Bronze 2004 Rosario Team
Pan American Games
Gold 1999 Winnipeg Team
Gold 2003 Santo Domingo Team
Gold 2007 Rio de Janeiro Team
Pan American Cup
Gold 2001 Kingston Team

María Mercedes ("Mechi") Margalot (born June 28, 1975 in Buenos Aires) is a retired field hockey defender from Argentina, who won the silver medal with the national women's hockey team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

Four years later, when Athens, Greece hosted The Games, she won the bronze medal with the Argentine squad. Mercedes has also won the bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, the World Cup in 2002, two Champions Trophy (2001) (2008), three medals at the Pan American Games (1999), (2003) and (2007) and the Pan American Cup in 2001.

Margalot played club hockey in the Netherlands, first for Oranje Zwart of Eindhoven and then for Push of Breda.

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