Julieta Jankunas (born 20 January 1999) is an Argentine

field hockey Field hockey (or simply referred to as hockey in some countries where ice hockey is not popular) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalk ...

player and part of the Argentina national team. She plays with the Argentina national field hockey team, winning silver medal at the

2020 Summer Olympics The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...

Career

She participated in the

2014 Summer Youth Olympics The 2014 Summer Youth Olympics (), officially known as the II Summer Youth Olympic Games , and commonly known as Nanjing 2014 ( zh, c=南京2014, p=Nánjīng Èr Líng yī sì), were the second Youth Olympic Games, Summer Youth Olympic Games, an ...

, and the

2016 Women's Hockey Junior World Cup The 2016 Women's Hockey Junior World Cup was the 8th edition of the Women's Hockey Junior World Cup. It was held from 24 November to 4 December 2016 in Santiago, Chile. Argentina women's national field hockey team, Argentina won the tournament af ...

. She won a gold medal at the

2019 Pan American Games The 2019 Pan American Games (), officially the XVIII Pan American Games () and commonly known as Lima 2019, were a multi-sport event governed by the Panam Sports Organization held in Lima, Peru from July 26 to August 11, 2019, with preliminar ...

, and also at the 2023 Games. She was part of the national squad that won the 2022 Pan American Cup. In 2022, she also won the 2021-22 Hockey Pro League and the silver medal at the

2022 World Cup The 2022 FIFA World Cup was the 22nd FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for national football teams organized by FIFA. It took place in Qatar from 20 November to 18 December 2022, after the country was awarded the hosting ri ...

. On club level, she plays for Universitario de Córdoba in Argentina. In December 2019, she was nominated for the FIH Rising Star of the Year Award.

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Paris 2024 Summer Olympics The 2024 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad () and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event held in France from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with several events started from 24 July. P ...

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1999 births Living people Argentine female field hockey players 21st-century Argentine sportswomen Argentine people of Lithuanian descent Competitors at the 2018 South American Games Female field hockey forwards Field hockey players at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Field hockey players at the 2019 Pan American Games Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 2023 Pan American Games Field hockey players at the 2024 Summer Olympics Las Leonas players Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games Olympic field hockey players for Argentina Olympic medalists in field hockey Olympic silver medalists for Argentina Pan American Games gold medalists for Argentina Pan American Games gold medalists in field hockey Pan American Games field hockey players for Argentina South American Games gold medalists for Argentina South American Games medalists in field hockey Sportspeople from Córdoba, Argentina Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Argentina {{Argentina-fieldhockey-bio-stub