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| Full name | Victoria Sauze Valdéz | ||||||||||||
| Born | (1991-07-21) 21 July 1991 | ||||||||||||
| Height | 161 cm (5 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 52 kg (115 lb) | ||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||
| Sport | Field hockey | ||||||||||||
| Position | Midfielder | ||||||||||||
| Club | River Plate | ||||||||||||
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Victoria Sauze Valdéz (born 21 July 1991)[1] is an Argentine field hockey player. She plays with the Argentina national field hockey team, winning silver medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[2]
Hockey career
Sauze started her career in Tucumán Rugby Club, then moving to Buenos Aires to play for River Plate.[3]
In 2017, Sauze was called into the senior national women's team. She competed in the team that finished fifth at the 2016-17 Hockey World League Final in Auckland.
She won a gold medal at the 2019 Pan American Games.[4]
In 2020, she won the silver medal with Argentina at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, and she also won the bronze medal with Las Leonas at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics.
References
- "Victoria Sauze Valdez". Confederación Argentina de Hockey. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
- "Hockey SAUZE VALDEZ Victoria". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 24 August 2021. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
- Sauze Valdez: "River me formó como persona y como jugadora" on CA River Plate
- "Argentina: 2019 Pan American Games (Women)". Pan American Hockey Federation. Archived from the original on 5 September 2019. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
External links
- Victoria Sauze at the International Hockey Federation
- Victoria Sauze Valdez at Olympics.com
- Victoria Sauze Valdez at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics (archived, alternate link)
- Victoria Sauze Valdéz at the Comité Olímpico Argentino (in Spanish)
- Vicky Sauze at Olympedia
- Vicky Sauze at InterSportStats
- Vicky Sauze on Instagram