Magdalena Aicega

Magdalena Aicega

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Medal record
Women's Field Hockey
Representing Argentina
Olympic Games
	2000 Sydney	Team
	2004 Athens	Team
	2008 Beijing	Team
World Cup
	2002 Perth	Team
	1994 Dublin	Team
	2006 Madrid	Team
Champions Trophy
	2001 Amstelveen	Team
	2008 Mönchengladbach	Team
	2002 Macau	Team
	2007 Quilmes	Team
	2004 Rosario	Team
Pan American Games
	1995 Mar del Plata	Team
	1999 Winnipeg	Team
	2003 Santo Domingo	Team
	2007 Rio de Janeiro	Team
Pan American Cup
	2001 Kingston	Team

María Magdalena Aicega Amicarelli (born November 1, 1973 in Buenos Aires) is a retired field hockey player from Argentina, who won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia and the bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece and at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China with the National Team. Magdalena also won the 2002 World Cup, two Champions Trophy, four gold medals at the Pan American Games and the Pan American Cup in 2001. Nicknamed Magui, she first represented her native country at the Junior World Cup in 1993 in Barcelona, Spain, where Argentina won the gold. The following year the penalty corner hitter played for the senior team, finishing second at the World Cup in Dublin, Ireland.

She was awarded with the Silver Olimpia Award, 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.

References

• CA Hockey
• Profile

External links

• Website with more information