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Inés Arrondo

Inés Arrondo

Argentine field hockey player

Inés Arrondo (born 28 November 1977) is a retired field hockey player from Argentina, who won the silver medal with the national women's hockey team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Inés has also won the World Cup in 2002 and the Champions Trophy in 2001.

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Having retired from her sporting career, she entered politics in 2017 when she ran for a seat in the Buenos Aires Province Senate in the Justicialist Front list, led by Florencio Randazzo. She failed to win a seat.[1] Since 2019, she has been Secretary of Sports in Argentina's Ministry of Tourism and Sports, working alongside minister Matías Lammens. She is the first woman to hold the post.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    "De Di Palma a Granata, cómo les fue a los candidatos famosos en las elecciones". iProfesional (in Spanish). 25 October 2017. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  2. [2]
    Saiz, Gastón (3 December 2019). "El nuevo gabinete: quién es Inés Arrondo, la primera mujer en hacerse cargo del deporte en Argentina". La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 February 2022.


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