Santiago Tarazona

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

Santiago Tarazona
Personal information
Full name Santiago Tomás Tarazona
Born (1996-05-31) 31 May 1996
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 74 kg (163 lb)
Playing position Defender / Midfielder
Club information
Current club GEBA
Senior career
Years Team
0000–2021 GEBA
2021–2022 Real Club de Polo
2022–present GEBA
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015–2016 Argentina U21 18 (2)
2017–present Argentina 98 (3)
Medal record
Men's field hockey
Representing  Argentina
Pan American Cup
Gold medal – first place2017 Lancaster
Gold medal – first place2022 Santiago
South American Games
Gold medal – first place2022 AsunciónTeam
Hockey World League
Silver medal – second place2016–17 BhubaneswarTeam
Pan American Junior Championship
Gold medal – first place2016 Toronto
Last updated on: 4 February 2022

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

Club career

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]

Honours

Argentina U21
Argentina

References

  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.
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