Delfina Merino (born 15 October 1989) is an Argentine

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player. At the

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, she competed for the Argentina national field hockey team and the team achieved the 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 ...

, she was part of the team that won the silver medal.

Career

Delfina also won the

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, Argentina, five

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, the World League 2014–15 and three Pan American Cups. She was part of the 2016 Olympic squad. In February 2018, she was elected as the best player in the world by the

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* 1989 births Living people Argentine sportspeople of Italian descent Argentine female field hockey players Olympic field hockey players for Argentina Field hockey players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in field hockey Las Leonas players Olympic silver medalists for Argentina Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 2011 Pan American Games Field hockey players at the 2015 Pan American Games Pan American Games silver medalists for Argentina Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Pan American Games silver medalists in field hockey Pan American Games field hockey players for Argentina Argentine expatriate field hockey players Argentine expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Female field hockey forwards Sportspeople from Vicente López Partido Field hockey players from Buenos Aires Province SCHC players Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics 21st-century Argentine sportswomen {{Argentina-fieldhockey-bio-stub