Bartolomé Castagnola (born June 16, 1970, in Lomas de Zamora,

Buenos Aires Province Buenos Aires (), officially the Buenos Aires Province (''Provincia de Buenos Aires'' ), is the largest and most populous Argentine province. It takes its name from the city of Buenos Aires, the capital of the country, which used to be part of th ...

) is an Argentine

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 with a

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polo handicap A polo handicap is a system created by Henry Lloyd Herbert, the first president of the United States Polo Association, at the founding of the USPA in 1890 so teams could be more evenly matched when using players with varying abilities. The player ...

and ranked among the top twenty players. He is often referred to as Lolo.

Biography

Career

Bartolomé Castagnola started playing polo seriously, when he was 14 and his father took him to the La Martina Polo School, where he got to know

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. In 1988, he started playing polo abroad, when he went to San Diego with Marcelo Caset and won the San Diego Open. Since then, he won the Sotogrande Gold Cup, the US Open, the USPA Gold Cup, the Queen's Cup and the

Hurlingham Open The Hurlingham Open ( es, Campeonato Abierto de Hurlingham) is a yearly polo competition that takes place at the Hurlingham Club The Hurlingham Club is an exclusive private social and athletic club located in the Fulham area of London, Engl ...

among other. He participated 14 times in the

Campeonato Argentino Abierto de Polo 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. It was known as t ...

(Argentine Open), won six times and took part in the final another three times. Castagnola played for La Martina, Ellerstina, Outback and

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and played in Argentina, Spain, Dubai, United Kingdom and Australia. In 2000 he co-founded the

La Dolfina Polo Team La Dolfina (currently named La Dolfina Sancor Seguros due to sponsorship reasons) is an Argentine polo team, founded by Adolfo Cambiaso and Bartolomé Castagnola in 2000, based in the city of Cañuelas, Buenos Aires Province. La Dolfina won th ...

, together with

, where he usually played on position 4. In 2011 he split with Cambiaso and founded La Natividad.

Marriage

Bartolomé is married to Camila Cambiaso, sister of

. They have three sons: Bartolomé Jr., Camilo and Benicio, with the two elders also professional polo players, having won the 2019 British Open Polo Championship for

Dubai Polo Team The Dubai Polo Team is one of the most successful polo teams of all time, playing at the highest level globally. The Dubai Polo Team has bases in UK, Spain, USA, Argentina and Dubai. The Dubai Polo Team have won the British Open for the Gold Cup ...

.El mañana llegó: los sobrinos de Cambiaso son campeones del torneo más grande de Europa
- Xavier Prieto Astigarraga, La Nación, 21 July 2019

References

Sources

Profile at World Polo TourLa DolfinaInterview with Castagnola
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