Florencia Peñalba
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Florencia Belén Peñalba Antoria | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
9 September 1999 Uruguay | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 158 cm (5 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 56 kg (123 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Defence | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016–2021 | Uruguay U–21 | 10 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018– | Uruguay | 14 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
| |||||||||||||||||||||||
Florencia Belén Peñalba Antoria (born 9 September 1999)[1] is a Uruguayan field hockey player, who plays as a defender.[2]
Career
[edit]Under–21
[edit]Peñalba made her debut for the Uruguay U–21 team at the Pan American Junior Championships in Tacarigua.[3]
In 2021 she represented the team again, winning silver at the 2021 Pan American Junior Championship in Santiago.[4][5]
Las Cimarronas
[edit]Peñalba made her senior international debut for Las Cimarronas in 2018, during the FIH Series Open in Santiago.[4][6]
She won her first medal with the national team in 2022, taking home bronze at the South American Games in Asunción.[7][8]
In 2023 she was named in the squad for the Pan American Games in Santiago.[9][10][11]
References
[edit]- ^ "Team Details – Uruguay". tms.fih.ch. International Hockey Federation. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
- ^ "Florencia Peñalba". globalsportsarchive.com. Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
- ^ "Uruguay". panamhockey.org. Pan American Hockey Federation. Archived from the original on 18 June 2019. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
- ^ a b "PEÑALBA Florencia". tms.fih.ch. International Hockey Federation. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
- ^ "Hockey: "Estamos erizadas", dijo María Belén Barreiro tras clasificar a Uruguay al Mundial". montevideo.com.uy (in Spanish). Montevideo. 27 August 2021. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
- ^ "Triunfos celestes en el Series Open de hockey". eltelegrafo.com (in Spanish). El Telégrafo. 21 September 2018. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
- ^ "Florencia Belén Peñalba Antoria". asu2022.org.py. Asunción2022. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
- ^ "Juegos ODESUR Paraguay 2022 · ¡Cimarronas Bronce!". hockey.com.uy (in Spanish). Federación Uruguaya de Hockey. 3 October 2022. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
- ^ "Plantel de Hockey para los Panamericanos". cud.org.uy (in Spanish). Confederación Uruguaya de Deportes. 13 October 2023. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
- ^ "Las Cimarronas convocadas para Santiago 2023". espn.com.ar (in Spanish). ESPN. 29 September 2023. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
- ^ "Juegos Panamericanos: Florencia Peñalba reveló cuáles son los dos grandes objetivos de Las Cimarronas". elobservador.com.uy (in Spanish). El Observador. 28 September 2023. Retrieved 18 October 2023.