Polo at the 1900 Summer Olympics

The in the French capital Paris as part of the World's Fair ( Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Paris) discharged International competitions for Physical Education and Sport ( Concours Internationaux d' Exercices Physiques et de Sports ) also included a tournament for Polo, which is part of the Olympic Summer Games 1900 ( Games of the II Olympiad ) was.

Polo was once particularly in the social circles and make the nobility a highly respected sports and had therefore already Olympic ideals. The International Olympic Committee (IOC ), the Olympic program of the Games of the II Olympiad assigned tournament was not the only one that was held in the framework of the World Exhibition. Overall, there were eight tournaments, for all a separate price has been announced, and where different players or teams participated more than once. The IOC shall designate as the only Olympic competition the tournament for the Grand prix international de l'exposition.

Team events were generally advertised at the time as competition between club or association teams. These represented generally at international competitions each country in which the club or association was established. It was not this considered a hindrance when in a club and players of other nationalities were represented. This was particularly hard on the polo clubs.

In the regarded as the IOC Olympic tournament five teams participated. The two British clubs had players from the United States and Spain in their ranks, while at one of the two French clubs on the other hand played along a Briton. No one, however, had thought in the early days of the Olympic Games to a national ranking or a medal. This means that the IOC a number of teams with players of different nationalities are now counted separately as mixed teams. This also includes the winners and runners-up of the Olympic polo tournament of 1900. There are quite publications in which this is viewed differently, and where the placement of each nation recognized, or even the nation is attributed, in which the club was located. Accordingly, there arises also changed the statistics and medal table dar.

The tournament took place between 28 May and 9 June. Venue was a plant in the Parc de Bagatelle based there the Polo Association Société du Polo de Paris. First there was a qualifying match on May 28, in which the British / American team of Foxhunters Hurlingham defeated the purely French team of Compiègne Polo Club 10-0. The player Maurice Raoul - Duval then played with the team at the Bagatelle Polo Club de Paris.

Originally a team of the Polo Club Hamburg had registered from Germany. Participation, however, was telegraphed canceled because a player was ill.

Semi-final on 31 May: Foxhunters Hurlingham vs. Bagatelle Polo Club de Paris 6:4 Polo Club Rugby vs. Team North America (Mexico) 8-0

Finals on June 9: Foxhunters Hurlingham vs. Rugby Polo Club 3-1

The third place was not played, so that both the semifinal losers were taken in the score for the third place.

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