Maria Cecilia Rognoni Potocki (born December 1, 1976 in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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) is an Argentine

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

  field hockey

Field hockey

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 defender, who won the gold medal at the 2002 World Cup

2002 Women's Hockey World Cup

The 2002 Hockey World Cup for women is the 10th edition of the Women's Hockey World Cup. It was held from November 24 to December 8, 2002.Argentina won its first ever World Championship after beating Netherlands 1–1 in penalty stroke...

 at Perth

Perth, Western Australia

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, Australia where she was elected as the best woman hockey player in the world by the FIH

International Hockey Federation

The International Field Hockey Federation is the global governing body of field hockey...

. She is currently playing in the Dutch team HC Bloemendaal

HC Bloemendaal

Hockey Club Bloemendaal is a Dutch field hockey club, which was established on April 16, 1895, and is therefore one of the oldest field hockey clubs in the Netherlands...

 in the second division of the Netherlands

Netherlands

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.

Cecilia belongs to the generation that gave rise to the myth of the Las Leonas

Las Leonas

Argentina national women's field hockey team represents Argentina in women's field hockey. They are also known by the nickname Las Leonas, meaning "The Lionesses"...

. She won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics

2000 Summer Olympics

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 in Sydney

Sydney

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 and a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics

2004 Summer Olympics

The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team...

 in Athens. In 2005 she was separated from the Argentine national field hockey team by the coach Gabriel Minadeo

Gabriel Minadeo

Gabriel Minadeo Ramírez is a male former field hockey player from Argentina. He competed for his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988....

, after she said that "many of the players have a place on the team just because of their surname". She came back to the team in 2010 under Carlos Retegui coaching but was forced to leave the team due knee injuries

She also played for Club Ciudad de Buenos Aires

Club Ciudad de Buenos Aires

Club Ciudad de Buenos Aires, familiarly nicknamed as "Muni", is a sports and social club located in the Núñez neighborhood of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina...

 and HC Rotterdam

HC Rotterdam

HC Rotterdam is a Dutch field hockey club, which was founded on September 16, 1925. With a total number of 2,342 members it is the biggest hockeyclub in the Netherlands. The first teams compete on the highest level of the Dutch field hockey league, which is called "Hoofdklasse"...

 in the Netherlands.

Honours

• 1994: Champion of the South American Tournament (Chile)
• 1995: 4th place in the Olympic Qualifying Tournament (Cape Town)
• 1996: 7th place in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics
• 1997: 3rd place in the Junior World Championships (Korea)
• 1998: 4th place in World Championship (Utrecht, Netherlands)
• 1999: Gold medal at the 1999 Pan American Games (Winnipeg)
• 1999: 4th place in the Champions Trophy (Brisbane)
• 2000: Silver Medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics
• 2001: Wins the Copa America (Jamaica)
• 2001: Champion of Champions Trophy (Netherlands)
• 2001: Champion of the Three Nations Cup-Spain Netherlands Argentina (Argentina)
• 2002: Runners in the Champions Trophy Macao 2002 (China)
• 2002: Champion of the World Championships (Perth)
• 2003: Champion of the Euro with the Rotterdam (Netherlands)
• 2003: Gold medal at the 2003 Pan American Games (Santo Domingo)
• 2004: 2nd place four nations tournament Córdoba (Argentina)
• 2004: Bronze medal at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games
• 2004: 3rd place in the Champions Trophy (Argentina)

Individual

• 1995 - Premio Clarín Revelation (Hockey)
• 1997 - Top scorer in the junior Pan American Championship in Chile
• 1998 - Premio Clarín Consecration (Hockey)
• 1998 - Olimpia Award (Hockey)
• 2001 - Pan American Cup scorer of Kingston, Jamaica
• 2002 - Best player of the tournament (Champions Trophy in Macau)
• 2002 - World's Best Player
• 2002 - Premio Clarín Consecration (Hockey)
• 2002 - Olimpia Award (Hockey)
• 2002 - Olympia Gold Award (Best Athlete of the Year)

External links

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