Giselle Kañevsky



Giselle Andrea Kañevsky (born August 4, 1985, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine field hockey player who is a defender on the national women's hockey team "Las Leonas".[1] [2] [3]

Kañevsky is Jewish.[4] [5]  She started playing at age seven, at the country Los Cardales, 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 Women's Hockey World Cup.

In August 2008, she won a bronze medal with the national women's hockey team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[6]  In September of the same year she moved to the Netherlands to play with the first ladies team of Haagsche Delftsche Mixed Hockey Club (HDM).