Magdalena Aicega, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Magdalena Aicega

Olympic field hockey player

Date of Birth: 01-Nov-1973

Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Profession: field hockey player

Nationality: Argentina

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About 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. 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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