Magdalena Aicega

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.

Magdalena Aicega

Medal record
Women's field hockey
Representing  Argentina
Olympic Games
2000 SydneyTeam
2004 AthensTeam
2008 BeijingTeam
World Cup
2002 Perth Team
1994 Dublin Team
2006 Madrid Team
Champions Trophy
2001 Amstelveen Team
2008 MönchengladbachTeam
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

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.

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