Argentina National Thread

[LDOG 2,472]

Premios Olimpia 2017  

 

The Olimpia awards are annual awards given by sport journalists of the country to the best argentinian sportsmen/women of the year. In each sport (many of them olympic, others non olympic) one athlete is given a "Olimpia de Plata" (silver Olimpia) which recognizes them as the best athlete from said sport over the calendar year. Then, among the winners of the different sports, one athlete is crowned as the "Olimpia de Oro" (Golden Olimpia), the best argentine athlete of that year.

 

These are the winners of the various 2017 Olimpias de Plata:

 

Ajedrez: Diego Flores

Atletismo: Belén Casetta

Automovilismo: Agustin Canapino

Basquetbol: Facundo Campazzo

Billar: Sebastian Giumelli

Bochas: Guillermo Montemerlo

Boxeo: Brian Castaño

Canotaje: Agustin Vernice

Ciclismo: Maximiliano Richeze

Equitación: Martina Campi

Esgrima: Jesús Lugones

Esquí Náutico: Eugenia de Armas

Futbol Exterior: Lionel Messi

Futbol Local: Dario Benedetto

Futsal: Santiago Basile

Gimnasia: Federico Molinari

Golf: Andrés Romero

Handball: Diego Simonet

Hockey sobre Césped: Gonzalo Peillat

Hockey sobre Patines: Adriana Gutierrez

Judo: Paula Pareto

Karate: Julio Ichiki

Motociclismo: Kevin Benavides

Natación: Delfina Pignatiello

Padel: Fernando Bellasteguin

Patín: Ken Kuwada

Pato: Facundo Taberna

Pelota: Juan Luis Firpo

Polo: Adolfo Cambiaso

Remo: Rodrigo Murillo/Cristian Rosso

Rugby: Emiliano Boffelli

Softbol: Mariano Montero

Squash: Roberto Pezzota

Taekwondo: Lucas Guzman

Tenis: Diego Schwartzman

Tenis de Mesa: Horacio Cifuentes

Tiro: Federico Gil

Turf: Eduardo Ortega Pavon

Voleibol: German Johansen

Yatching: Julio Alsogaray/Javier Conte/Maria Paula Salerno

Paralímpico: Gustavo Fernández (Tenis en silla de ruedas) 

 

 

 

 

[LDOG 2,472]

Olimpia de Oro (Argentine athlete of the Year)

 

Delfina Pignatiello (Natación/Swimming)

 

In a somewhat "inactive" year for argentine sport in general, the 17 year old Junior World Champion of the 800 and 1500m Freestyle receives the biggest individual recognition. Although arguably a bit of a controversial decision to give her the award (too long to explain why), nonetheless she's one of the biggest promises of this country's sport and likely the "face" of upcoming Youth Summer Olympics in Buenos Aires. Also, she's the youngest to receive this award, surpassing pole vaulter German Chiaraviglio who won it in 2006 at age 19. Congratulations!

 

 

Above: Delfina posing with her south american youth games medals.

 

Below: Receiving her Olimpia de Plata in yesterday's ceremony.

 

[konig 1,583]

5 hours ago, LDOG said:

Olimpia de Oro (Argentine athlete of the Year)

 

Delfina Pignatiello (Natación/Swimming)

 

In a somewhat "inactive" year for argentine sport in general, the 17 year old Junior World Champion of the 800 and 1500m Freestyle receives the biggest individual recognition. Although arguably a bit of a controversial decision to give her the award (too long to explain why), nonetheless she's one of the biggest promises of this country's sport and likely the "face" of upcoming Youth Summer Olympics in Buenos Aires. Also, she's the youngest to receive this award, surpassing pole vaulter German Chiaraviglio who won it in 2006 at age 19. Congratulations!

 

 

Above: Delfina posing with her south american youth games medals.

 

Below: Receiving her Olimpia de Plata in yesterday's ceremony.

 

Muy merecido para mi.

[LDOG 2,472]

hace 1 hora, konig said:

Muy merecido para mi.

 

Ok, I accept other opinions, but... do you know that you can cut parts of the posts you quote?

[konig 1,583]

A little interview of my site with Steven Williams (one of the sixth argentinians in Pyenongchang)

 

 

 

[dcro 10,210]

Can any of you Argentinians find out what's going on with Maria Florencia Manfredi? She was a regular at the Florida Winter circuit the previous two years, but hasn't showed at all this year. Her latest international was Omaha 2017, in fact, almost a year ago.

[LDOG 2,472]

hace 2 horas, dcro said:

Can any of you Argentinians find out what's going on with Maria Florencia Manfredi? She was a regular at the Florida Winter circuit the previous two years, but hasn't showed at all this year. Her latest international was Omaha 2017, in fact, almost a year ago.

 

She says she will participate in south american games and WEG. I don't know what she's doing right now though.

Edited March 6, 2018 by LDOG

[dcro 10,210]

7 minutes ago, LDOG said:

 

She says she will participate in south american games and WEG. I don't know what she's doing right now though.

 

Thanks.

That makes sense, forgot about the South American Games. She still has WEG qualifying scores from last year so that's no problem, although she will lack international outings going into it.

[konig 1,583]

11 hours ago, dcro said:

Can any of you Argentinians find out what's going on with Maria Florencia Manfredi? She was a regular at the Florida Winter circuit the previous two years, but hasn't showed at all this year. Her latest international was Omaha 2017, in fact, almost a year ago.

I will ask to her, i dont know if she will answer 

[konig 1,583]

On 6/3/2018 at 07:12, dcro said:

Can any of you Argentinians find out what's going on with Maria Florencia Manfredi? She was a regular at the Florida Winter circuit the previous two years, but hasn't showed at all this year. Her latest international was Omaha 2017, in fact, almost a year ago.

She answer me, basically "money problem"

 

Hola
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Voy directamente al mundial en septiembre en tryon en Estados Unidos
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