- Magdalena Aicega
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Medal record
Magdalena AicegaWomen'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 Silver 1994 Dublin Team Bronze 2006 Madrid Team Champions Trophy Gold 2001 Amstelveen Team Gold 2008 Mönchengladbach Team Silver 2002 Macau Team Silver 2007 Quilmes Team Bronze 2004 Rosario Team Pan American Games Gold 1995 Mar del Plata Team Gold 1999 Winnipeg Team Gold 2003 Santo Domingo Team Gold 2007 Rio de Janeiro Team Pan American Cup Gold 2001 Kingston Team María Magdalena Aicega Amicarelli (born November 1, 1973 in Buenos Aires) is a field hockey defender from Argentina, who won the silver medal with the Women's National Team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Nicknamed Magui, she first represented her native country at the Junior World Cup in 1993 in Barcelona, Spain, where Argentina won gold. The following year the penalty corner hitter played for the senior team, finishing second at the World Cup in Dublin, Ireland.
Aicega was awarded the Silver Olimpia, the most prestigious local prize awarded by Argentina's Sports Journalists Association, in 1998 and 2003. She was also nominated for the FIH's Best Player of the Year in 1999, won by Australia's Alyson Annan.
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Categories:- 1973 births
- Living people
- Field hockey players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic field hockey players of Argentina
- Olympic silver medalists for Argentina
- Olympic bronze medalists for Argentina
- Las Leonas players
- Olympic medalists in field hockey
- Argentine field hockey biography stubs
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