LOPEZ GARCIA Maria

Date of Birth: 16 Feb 1990

Age: 31

Gender: Female

Height (m/ft): 1.70/5'6''

Place of birth: GIJON

Birth Country:

Spain

Place of residence : MADRID

Residence Country:

Spain

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Hockey	Women ESP Spain	7

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Oi Hockey Stadium - South Pitch	Women's Pool B #W04 AUS Australia 3 ESP Spain 1	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - South Pitch	Women's Pool B #W10 ARG Argentina 3 ESP Spain 0	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - North Pitch	Women's Pool B #W15 NZL New Zealand 1 ESP Spain 2	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - North Pitch	Women's Pool B #W19 ESP Spain 2 CHN China 0	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - South Pitch	Women's Pool B #W26 JPN Japan 1 ESP Spain 4	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - North Pitch	Women's Quarter-final #W32 ESP Spain 2 (0) GBR Great Britain 2 (2)	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
8	Women	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA

Rank	Event	Year	Location
3	Women	2018	London, GBR

EuroHockey Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
3	Women	2019	Antwerp, BEL
4	Women	2021	Amsterdam, NED
5	Women	2017	Amstelveen, NED

Mery (Athlete, 23 Jul 2021)

Travel, reading, watching TV series, going for a walk, shopping. (Athlete, 23 Jul 2021)

Occupation:

Communications Professional, Marketing

Business Administration - Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

Languages spoken:

English, Spanish

Club de Campo [Madrid, ESP] since 2010

Eduardo Aguliar [club], ESP; Adrian Lock [national], GBR

Position style:

Defender (rfeh.es, 04 Mar 2020)

National league:

Division de Honor [ESP] (rfeh.es, 08 Mar 2020)

She began playing hockey at age eight in Gijon, Spain. (Athlete, 23 Jul 2021)

She was inspired to start playing by her brother, and then made some good friends. (Tododeporte Asturias YouTube channel, 16 Oct 2019 planetolimpico.wordpress.com, 11 Jan 2014)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (lavanguardia.com, 26 Nov 2019)

Winning bronze at the 2018 World Cup in London, England. (Athlete, 23 Jul 2021)

Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal. (Athlete, 23 Jul 2021)

Her parents. (Athlete, 23 Jul 2021)

She enters the playing field with her right foot first. (Athlete, 23 Jul 2021)

Philosophy:

"Here and now." (Athlete, 23 Jul 2021)

She was named Most Valuable Player of the 2016/17 Division de Honor in Spain. In 2017 she was also named MVP of the Queen's Cup in Spain. (rfeh.es, 09 Jul 2018)

General Interest

General
CHANGE OF DIRECTION
She says that after missing out on the 2012 Olympic Games in London, the national team decided to change their way of working. "In 2013 this generation, with a few years less, talked to the staff about where we wanted the national team to go and we committed to taking on a professional mentality without economic resources and doing everything in our power with individual and group training to improve things in the future and make sure everything we did was worth it. Little by little we worked, we increased our training hours and in the end, after practically five years, the results came and now we are reaping the rewards." (Tododeporte Asturias YouTube channel, 16 Oct 2019)

FURTHER STUDIES
She did a master's degree in sports management at the Garrigues Centre of Studies. She also has taken a course in sports law, business and finance at the ISDE Law and Business School in Madrid, Spain. (LinkedIn profile, 01 Jan 2020; Tododeporte Asturias YouTube channel, 16 Oct 2019)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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