Real Club de Polo de Barcelona ( en, Barcelona Royal Polo Club) is a
country club
A country club is a privately owned club, often with a membership quota and admittance by invitation or sponsorship, that generally offers both a variety of recreational sports and facilities for dining and entertaining. Typical athletic offer ...
in
Barcelona
Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...
, Spain. Established in 1897, it had 9000 members at the time of the
1992 Summer Olympics
The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as ...
. Normally used for
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 ...
,
field hockey
Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ci ...
,
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
,
squash
Squash may refer to:
Sports
* Squash (sport), the high-speed racquet sport also known as squash racquets
* Squash (professional wrestling), an extremely one-sided match in professional wrestling
* Squash tennis, a game similar to squash but pla ...
, and
swimming
Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...
by its members, the club was the venue for the Olympic
equestrian
The word equestrian is a reference to equestrianism, or horseback riding, derived from Latin ' and ', "horse".
Horseback riding (or Riding in British English)
Examples of this are:
* Equestrian sports
*Equestrian order, one of the upper classes i ...
competition (dressage, jumping, and the eventing finals) and the riding portion of the
modern pentathlon
The modern pentathlon is an Olympic sport consisting of fencing (one-touch épée), freestyle swimming, equestrian show jumping, pistol shooting, and cross country running. The event is inspired by the traditional pentathlon held during the anci ...
events.
Trophies
Men's hockey
*
División de Honor de Hockey: 15
**1958, 1959, 1970, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2013, 2014, 2015,
2018
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*
European Cup
The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL, or sometimes, UEFA CL) is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competit ...
: 1
**2003–04
*
Copa del Rey
The Campeonato de España–Copa de Su Majestad el Rey, commonly known as Copa del Rey or simply La Copa and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–36) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–76), is an annual knockout footbal ...
: 31
**1916, 1917, 1922, 1924, 1925, 1929, 1941, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1970, 1974, 1976, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1989, 1996, 2003, 2008, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017,
2019
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, 2020
Women's hockey
*
División de Honor Femenina: 9
**1964, 1965, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1978, 1979, 2003, 2006
*
Copa de la Reina
Copa or COPA may refer to:
COPA
COPA may refer to:
* Computer Operator Programming Assistant. trade of ITI
* Child Online Protection Act, a former U.S. law to protect minors from certain material on the internet
* Canadian Owners and Pilots Ass ...
: 3
**2003, 2004, 2005
Current squad
Men's squad
Head coach: Roger Pallarols
References
External links
1992 Summer Olympics official report.Volume 2. pp. 221–24.
Official website
1897 establishments in Catalonia
Field hockey clubs established in 1897
Venues of the 1992 Summer Olympics
Olympic equestrian venues
Olympic modern pentathlon venues
Sports venues in Barcelona
Sports clubs in Barcelona
Catalan field hockey clubs
Polo clubs
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