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Santiago Tarazona

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Santiago Tarazona
Personal information
Full name Santiago Tomás Tarazona
Born (1996-05-31) 31 May 1996 (age 28)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 74 kg (163 lb)
Playing position Defender / Midfielder
Club information
Current club TSV Mannheim
Senior career
Years Team
0000–2021 GEBA
2021–2022 Real Club de Polo
2022–2024 GEBA
2024–present TSV Mannheim
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015–2016 Argentina U21 18 (2)
2017–present Argentina 125 (14)
Medal record
Men's field hockey
Representing  Argentina
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2023 Santiago Team
Pan American Cup
Gold medal – first place 2017 Lancaster
Gold medal – first place 2022 Santiago
South American Games
Gold medal – first place 2022 Asunción Team
Hockey World League
Silver medal – second place 2016–17 Bhubaneswar Team
Pan American Junior Championship
Gold medal – first place 2016 Toronto
Last updated on: 19 August 2024

Santiago Tomás Tarazona (born 31 May 1996) is an Argentine field hockey player who plays as a defender or midfielder for German Bundesliga club TSV Mannheim and the Argentine national team.[1]

He represented Argentina at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics.[2][3]

Club career

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Tarazona started playing hockey at age eight. He played for GEBA until the 2020 Olympics when he joined Spanish División de Honor club Real Club de Polo in the summer of 2021.[4] After one season, he returned to Argentina to prepare for the 2023 Men's FIH Hockey World Cup.[5] He returned to Europe after the 2024 Summer Olympics to play for TSV Mannheim in the German Bundesliga.[6]

Honours

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Argentina U21
Argentina

References

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  1. ^ "Santiago Tarazona". cahockey.org.ar. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Los Leones Citados Para Los Juegos Olímpicos De Tokio". www.cahockey.org.ar (in Spanish). Confederación Argentina de Hockey. 24 June 2021. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  3. ^ "Team Roster Argentina" (PDF). olympics.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 July 2021. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  4. ^ "El RC Polo Masculino Cierra Su Plantilla 2021-2022". rfeh.es (in Spanish). Real Federación Española de Hockey. 13 August 2021. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
  5. ^ "El RC Polo incorpora a Yannick Van der Drift" (in Catalan). 22 July 2022. Retrieved 25 December 2022.
  6. ^ Martin, Andreas (8 August 2024). "TSVMH holt Argentinier". mannheimer-morgen.de (in German). Mannheimer Morgen. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
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