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Mercedes Margalot

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Mercedes Margalot

Medal record
Women's Field Hockey
Representing  Argentina
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2000 Sydney Team
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Athens Team
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Beijing Team
World Cup
Gold medal – first place 2002 Perth
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Madrid
Champions Trophy
Gold medal – first place 2001 Amstelveen
Gold medal – first place 2008 Mönchengladbach
Silver medal – second place 2002 Macau
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Rosario
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 1999 Winnipeg
Gold medal – first place 2003 Santo Domingo
Gold medal – first place 2007 Rio de Janeiro
Pan American Cup
Gold medal – first place 2001 Kingston

María Mercedes "Mechi" Margalot (born June 28, 1975 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine retired field hockey player, who won the silver medal with the national field hockey team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

Four years later, when Athens, Greece hosted the Olympics, she won the bronze medal with the Argentine squad. Mercedes also won the bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, the World Cup in 2002, two Champions Trophy (2001, 2008), three medals at the Pan American Games (1999, 2003, 2007) and the Pan American Cup in 2001.

Margalot played club hockey in the Netherlands, first for Oranje Zwart of Eindhoven and then for Push of Breda.

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