| Biographies Athletes |
Luciana Aymar
ARG
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| Date of birth | 10 Aug 1977 |
| Place of birth | Rosario, ARG |
| Gender | Women |
| Height | 1.72 m |
| Weight | 60 kg |
| Champions Trophy Totals |
Goals |
Cards |
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| Goals | Field Goals | Penalty Corner Goals | Penalty Stroke Goals | Total Cards | Green | Yellow | Red |
| 19 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 |
| Human Interest |
Further Personal Information | |
| Occupation | Athlete |
| Languages | Spanish, English |
| Higher education | Physical Education: Argentina |
Sport Specific Information | |
| When and where did you begin this sport? | She started playing hockey at age eight at the Fisherton Club in Rosario, Argentina. |
| Why this sport? | Her mother Nilda was a physical education teacher and encouraged her children to play sport. She did roller-skating, played tennis, swam and even did classic dancing before her older sister Cintia took her to play hockey. |
| Name of coach | Carlos Retegui [national] |
| Preferred position / style / stance / technique | Forward |
| Handedness | Right |
International / National Debut | |
| Year | 1998 |
| Country | Argentina |
| Tournament | World Cup |
General Interest | |
| Nicknames | La Maga [The Magician], Lucha, Pipi (Athlete, 28 Jul 2009) |
| Hobbies | Playing tennis and going to the cinema. (Athlete, 28 Jul 2009) |
| Memorable sporting achievement | Winning the World Cup in 2002 in Perth, Australia and winning three Olympic medals. (Athlete, 28 Jul 2009) |
| Most influential person in career | Her family. (Athlete, 28 Jul 2009) |
| Hero / Idol | Roger Federer and Diego Maradona.(Athlete, 28 Jul 2009) |
| Injuries | She suffered bone edema in her left knee in 2008 and spent five months recovering. She made it back into the national squad in time for the Olympic Games in Beijing. (clarin.com; Athlete, 28 Jul 2009) |
| Sporting philosophy / motto | "Enjoy and appreciate the values of sports." (Athlete, 28 Jul 2009) |
| Awards and honours | She has won the International Hockey Federation's [FIH] Player of the Year award a record seven times [2001, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010]. (FIH, 21 Aug 2010) She has been named in the FIH All Star team for six consecutive years [2006-2011]. (fih.ch, 22 Dec 2011) She was named Player of the Tournament at the 2000, 2001, 2005, 2008 and 2010 Champions Trophy tournaments. (FIH, 21 Aug 2010) She was named Player of the Tournament at the 2010 World Cup in Rosario, Argentina. (FIH, 30 Sep 2010) |
| Other information | LONDON 2012 In preparation for the 2012 Olympic Games in London she decided to focus completely on training and playing with the national team and decided not to play club hockey. (pais24.com, 12 May 2011) TIME OFF She took a break from hockey following Argentina's victory at the 2010 World Cup in Rosario, Argentina. She returned to the national team for the Champions Trophy in July 2011. (fih.ch, 03 Jul 2011) OVERSEAS SUCCESS She has won domestic titles in Germany with Rot-Weiss Köln and in Spain with Real Club de Polo. (NOC Media Guide, 2008) EARLY DAYS The whole family joined the Jockey Club de Rosario when she was 13 and by 1994 she was travelling over 300km from her hometown of Rosario to Buenos Aires twice a week for training with the national junior squad. The bus journey took a minimum of three and a half hours and as the training sessions started at 8am she had to get up at 3am. The Argentina Hockey Confederation [CAH] never helped with fares or lodging costs and she had to give up studying business administration so she could maintain the commitment to her training schedule. She admitted to feeling like giving up her international ambitions, but her family talked her out of it. (FIH, 07 Mar 2002) |
| Competition Highlights (historical) |
| Olympic Games | ||
| Rank | Year | Venue |
| 2 | 2000 | Sydney, AUS |
| 3 | 2008 | Beijing, CHN |
| 3 | 2004 | Athens, GRE |
| World Cup | ||
| Rank | Year | Venue |
| 1 | 2010 | Argentina |
| 1 | 2002 | Australia |
| 3 | 2006 | Spain |
| 4 | 1998 | Netherlands |
| Pan American Games | ||
| Rank | Year | Venue |
| 1 | 2007 | Brazil |
| 1 | 2003 | Dominican Republic |
| 1 | 1999 | Canada |
| 2 | 2011 | Mexico |
| Champions Trophy | ||
| Rank | Year | Venue |
| 1 | 2010 | England |
| 1 | 2009 | Australia |
| 1 | 2008 | Germany |
| 1 | 2001 | Netherlands |
| 2 | 2011 | Netherlands |
| 2 | 2007 | Argentina |
| 2 | 2002 | China |
| 3 | 2004 | Argentina |
| 4 | 2006 | Netherlands |
| 4 | 2005 | Australia |
| 4 | 2003 | Australia |
| 4 | 2000 | Netherlands |
| 4 | 1999 | Australia |
| Pan American Cup | ||
| Rank | Year | Venue |
| 1 | 2004 | Barbados |
| 1 | 2001 | Jamaica |