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The Campo Argentino del Polo (Argentine Polo Ground), popularly known as The Cathedral of Polo, is a multi-purpose stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is currently used mostly for polo , pato and field hockey matches.
The Campeonato Argentino Abierto de Polo (Spanish for Argentine Open Polo Championship) is an international polo championship at club level, organised every year since 1893 at the Campo Argentino de Polo of Palermo, Buenos Aires.
The initial meetings took place in Buenos Aires, and by April 1982, the Federation of International Polo, quickly known as “FIP,” was created. FIP's first President was Marcos Uranga. To that end, Mr. Uranga spearheaded the movement for a World Championship and scheduled the first for April 1987 in the Campo Argentino de Polo in Buenos ...
The Argentine Polo Association (Spanish: Asociación Argentina de Polo, AAP) is the guiding entity of the game of Polo in the Argentina. It is a non-profit association constituted on September 14, 1922 in Buenos Aires. [1] Before its creation the Polo Association of the River Plate (the P.A.R.P) was the governing body for polo in Argentina.
La Dolfina (currently named La Dolfina Sancor Seguros due to sponsorship reasons [1]) is an Argentine polo team, founded by Adolfo Cambiaso and Bartolomé Castagnola in 2000, based in the city of Cañuelas, Buenos Aires Province.
World Polo Championship (5): 1987, 1992, 1998, 2011, 2017 Olympic Games (2) : 1924, 1936 The Argentina national polo team (Spanish: Selección nacional de polo de Argentina) represents Argentina in international polo officially and it is controlled by the Argentine Polo Association.
The Buenos Aires Council Member gave a special permission to hold the fight because the practise of boxing was prohibited in the city by then (boxing would be reinstalled in 1924). [ 20 ] In 1917, the AFA agreed with the Municipal Government to build a stadium with capacity for 50,000 spectators in the same place where the "Sportiva" facilities ...
Adolfo Cambiaso, Gonzalo Pieres, his brother Facundo, the Novillo Astrada brothers, the Heguy's, and Tommy Iriarte are currently ranked amongst the best polo players in the world. The three most important polo tournaments in the world, the Argentine Open, the Hurlingham Open, and the Tortugas Open are held in Argentina. Historically, Argentina ...