Rosario Luchetti
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Rosario Luchetti is a field hockey
Field hockey
Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

 player from Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

, who won a bronze medal with the national women's hockey team
Las Leonas
Argentina national women's field hockey team represents Argentina in women's field hockey. They are also known by the nickname Las Leonas, meaning "The Lionesses"...

 at the 2008 Summer Olympics
2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees competed in 28 sports and 302 events...

 in Beijing
Beijing
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.

Charito, as she is known, emerged from the youths of the Belgrano Athletic Club
Belgrano Athletic Club
Belgrano Athletic Club is an amateur sports club from the Belgrano neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. One of Argentina's oldest institutions still in existence, Belgrano is one of the four clubs that founded the Argentine Rugby Union....

 and she debuted in Las Leonas in the 2005 Champions Trophy at Canberra
Canberra
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, Australia. In the course of her career she has won medals at major tournaments of international hockey, such as the bronze medal at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, the 2006 Madrid World Championships and the gold medals at the 2006 ODESUR Games, 2007 Pan American Games, 2008 Champions Trophy and 2009 Pan American Cup Hamilton, among others.
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