Antonio Nava Castillo (September 9, 1905 – March 28, 1983) was a Mexican
polo
Polo is a ball game played on horseback, a traditional field sport and one of the world's oldest known team sports. The game is played by two opposing teams with the objective of scoring using a long-handled wooden mallet to hit a small hard ...
player who competed in the
1936 Summer Olympics
The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp ...
. Born in
Ixcaquixtla,
Puebla
Puebla ( en, colony, settlement), officially Free and Sovereign State of Puebla ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Puebla), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 217 municipalities and its cap ...
, he was part of the Mexican polo team, which won the bronze medal. He played all three matches in the tournament. Afterwards Nava entered politics and, from 1965 to 1966, he was the
Governor of Puebla
The governor of Puebla is the chief executive of the Mexican state of Puebla.
References
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Puebla
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External links
Antonio Nava's profile at databaseOlympics
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Equipo de PoloAntonio Nava's profile at Sports Reference.com
1905 births
1983 deaths
Mexican polo players
Olympic bronze medalists for Mexico
Olympic polo players of Mexico
Polo players at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Puebla
Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in polo
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