Giselle Kañevsky

Who is Giselle Kañevsky?

Giselle Andrea Kañevsky is an Argentine field hockey player who is a defender on the national women's hockey team "Las Leonas".

Kañevsky is Jewish. 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. In September of the same year she moved to the Netherlands to play with the first ladies team of Haagsche Delftsche Mixed Hockey Club.