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Real Club de Polo de Barcelona ( en, Barcelona Royal Polo Club) is a country club in Barcelona, 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, tennis, squash, and swimming by its members, the club was the venue for the Olympic equestrian 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,
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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: 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,
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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: 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
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