Giselle Andrea Kañevsky (born August 4, 1985, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine field hockey player who plays as a defender on the Argentina national team.

Kañevsky is Jewish She started playing at age seven in Los Cardales Club, moving to Náutico Hacoaj three years later. In 2005, she was part of the National Junior Championship, and a year later had her debut with the senior team, finishing third at the World Cup.

Giselle Kañevsky

In August 2008, she won the bronze medal with the national field hockey team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. In September of the same year she moved to the Netherlands to play with the team of Haagsche Delftsche Mixed Hockey Club (HDM). In 2010, she won the World Cup held in Rosario, Argentina.

Giselle Kañevsky

In 2019, she returned to the national team after an eight-year gap under the coaching of Carlos Retegui.

Giselle Kañevsky

See also

List of select Jewish field hockey players

References

External links

Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

Confederación Argentina de Hockey (Argentine Hockey Confederation)

1985 births

Living people

Argentine Jews

Argentine female field hockey players

Las Leonas players

Olympic field hockey players for Argentina

Field hockey players at the 2007 Pan American Games

Field hockey players at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Olympic bronze medalists for Argentina

Argentine people of Russian-Jewish descent

Field hockey players from Buenos Aires

Jewish sportspeople

Olympic medalists in field hockey

Jewish Argentine sportspeople

Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Pan American Games gold medalists for Argentina

Pan American Games medalists in field hockey

South American Games gold medalists for Argentina

South American Games medalists in field hockey

Competitors at the 2006 South American Games

Field hockey players at the 2019 Pan American Games

Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games

Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games

21st-century Argentine women