Inés Arrondo

Inés Arrondo
Secretary of Sports
Incumbent
Assumed office
19 December 2019
PresidentAlberto Fernández
Preceded byDiógenes de Urquiza
Personal details
Born (1977-11-28) 28 November 1977 (age 47)
Mar del Plata, Argentina
Political partyIndependent
Other political
affiliations		Justicialist Front (2017)
Frente de Todos (2019–present)
Sports career
Medal record
Women's Field Hockey
Representing  Argentina
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2000 Sydney Team
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Athens Team
World Cup
Gold medal – first place 2002 Perth Team
Champions Trophy
Gold medal – first place 2001 Amstelveen Team
Silver medal – second place 2002 Macau Team
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Rosario Team
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 1999 Winnipeg Team
Gold medal – first place 2003 Santo Domingo Team

Inés Arrondo (born 28 November 1977) is a retired field hockey player from Argentina, who won the silver medal with the national women's hockey team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Inés has also won the World Cup in 2002 and the Champions Trophy in 2001.

Having retired from her sporting career, she entered politics in 2017 when she ran for a seat in the Buenos Aires Province Senate in the Justicialist Front list, led by Florencio Randazzo. She failed to win a seat.[1] Since 2019, she has been Secretary of Sports in Argentina's Ministry of Tourism and Sports, working alongside minister Matías Lammens. She is the first woman to hold the post.[2]

References

  1. ^ "De Di Palma a Granata, cómo les fue a los candidatos famosos en las elecciones". iProfesional (in Spanish). 25 October 2017. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  2. ^ Saiz, Gastón (3 December 2019). "El nuevo gabinete: quién es Inés Arrondo, la primera mujer en hacerse cargo del deporte en Argentina". La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 February 2022.


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