List of Argentine sportspeople

Last updated May 18, 2025

This is a list of people from Argentina involved in sports or athletics.

Athletics

Short-distance running

Long-distance running

Other fields

Enrico Barney, pole vault
Luis Brunetto, triple jump
Juan Carlos Dyrzka, hurdling
Alejandra García, high jump
Juan Kahnert, shot put
Enrique Kistenmacher, decathlete
Federico Kleger, hammer throw
Günther Kruse, discus throw
Estanislao Kocourek, hurdling
Ingeborg Pfüller, discus and shot put
Pablo Pietrobelli, javelin throw
Leonardo Price, middle-distance running
Noemí Simonetto, long jump
Tito Steiner, decathlete
Enrique Thompson, hurdling
Guillermo Weller, racewalking
Solange Witteveen, high jump

Basketball

Facundo Campazzo, point guard
Carlos Delfino, small forward / shooting guard
Gabriel Fernández, power forward / center
Óscar Furlong, power forward / center
Manu Ginóbili, shooting guard
Leonardo Gutiérrez, power forward
Walter Herrmann, small forward
María Itatí Castaldi, Paralympian
Nicolás Laprovíttola, point guard
Alejandro Montecchia, point guard
Andrés Nocioni, small forward / power forward
Fabricio Oberto, center / power forward
Pablo Prigioni, point guard
Juan Ignacio Sánchez, point guard
Luis Scola, power forward
Hugo Sconochini, shooting guard / small forward
Ezequiel Skverer, point guard
Joaquin Szuchman, shooting guard
Rubén Wolkowyski, center

Field hockey

Football

B

C

G–I

M

Golf

Marine sports

Martial arts

Guido Cannetti, mixed martial arts
Sebastián Crismanich, taekwondo
Daniela Krukower, world champion judo
Paula Pareto, judo
Rubén Peucelle, wrestling and bodybuilding
Santiago Ponzinibbio, mixed martial arts
Laureano Staropoli, mixed martial arts

Motorsports

Juan Manuel Fangio, car driver
Oscar Gálvez, race car driver
Esteban Guerrieri, race car driver
Eric Lichtenstein, race car driver
José María López, race car driver
Enrique Mansilla, racing driver
Carlos Reutemann, car driver and politician
Franco Colapinto, racing driver

Polo

Rugby

Felipe Contepomi, rugby union player
Ignacio Corleto, rugby player
Agustín Creevy, rugby union player
Juan Martín Fernández Lobbe, rugby union player
Juan Martín Hernández, rugby union player
Juan Imhoff, rugby union player
Mario Ledesma, rugby player
José María Núñez Piossek, rugby player
Luciano Orquera, rugby player
Ramiro Pez, rugbier
Agustín Pichot, rugby union player
Hugo Porta, rugby union player
Rodrigo Roncero, rugby union player
Nicolás Sánchez, rugby union player
Joaquín Tuculet, rugby union player

Swimming

Volleyball

Miscellaneous

Julio Alfredo Chiappero, chess
Sebastien Dechamps, handball
Carlos Enrique Díaz Sáenz Valiente, shooter
Donald Forrester, cricket
Martín Gramática, American football player
Lucas Legnani, bowler
Denis Margalik, figure skater
Carlos Moratorio, equestrian
Oscar Panno, chess grandmaster
Humberto Selvetti, weightlifting
Diego Simonet, handball
Pablo Tabachnik, table tennis
Martin Vari, kitesurfing

References

↑ Guy Ben-Porat, Amir Ben-Porat (December 2004). "(Un)Bounded Soccer; Globalization and Localization of the Game in Israel". International Review for the Sociology of Sport. 39 (4): 421–36. doi:10.1177/1012690204049064.

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[1] Guy Ben-Porat, Amir Ben-Porat (December 2004). "(Un)Bounded Soccer; Globalization and Localization of the Game in Israel". International Review for the Sociology of Sport. 39 (4): 421–36. doi:10.1177/1012690204049064.

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