Vanina Oneto

Vanina Paula Oneto (born June 15, 1973, in San Fernando) is a retired field hockey player from Argentina, who won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens with the national team. Vanina also won the 2002 World Cup, the 2001 Champions Trophy, three Pan American Games and the Pan American Cup in 2001.

Vanina Oneto
Oneto in 2010
Personal information
BornJune 15, 1973
Medal record
Women's Field Hockey
Representing  Argentina
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place2000 SydneyTeam
Bronze medal – third place2004 AthensTeam
World Cup
Gold medal – first place 2002 Perth
Silver medal – second place 1994 Dublin
Champions Trophy
Gold medal – first place 2001 Amstelveen
Silver medal – second place 2002 Macau
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Rosario
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 1991 Havana
Gold medal – first place 1995 Mar del Plata
Gold medal – first place 1999 Winnipeg
Pan American Cup
Gold medal – first place 2001 Kingston

Oneto is the all-time top scorer of Las Leonas,[1][2] with 148 goals scored, for which she was compared with football striker Gabriel Batistuta, the highest scorer of Argentina national football team by then.[3]

Biography

She made her debut at the age of 15 in Club San Fernando team, becoming champion. In 1991, at the age of 18, she was a member of the Argentine national team that won the gold medal at the Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba. In 1993 she was Junior World Champion and in 1994 she was World Sub-champion in Dublin (Ireland). In 1995 she won her second Pan American Gold Medal.

In 2004 she returned to the National Team after being a mother for the first time and she obtained the bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Athens and that same year she obtained third place in the Champions Trophy.[1]

In September 2022, Boca Juniors announced the club would open a field hockey section for men and women.[4] In May 2023, the club inaugurated a hockey field, with Oneto as part of the project. She was appointed manager of "Boca Juniors Hockey" section.[5]

References
  1. Vanina Oneto at Fundación Konex
  2. Vanina Oneto, la máxima goleadora de Las Leonas: a sus 48 años, está casada con un médico y tiene dos hijos on Gente magazine
  3. Vanina Oneto y el glorioso inicio de Las Leonas on TyC, 8 May 2020
  4. Llega el hockey a Boca on club website, May 2023
  5. Se viene el hockey en Boca: Vanina Oneto recorrió la nueva cancha del predio junto a Jorge Amor Ameal at TyC, 12 May 2023


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