Robert E. Walton, is an American

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 and coach.A Family's Tradition: Walton Not Deterred By Dad's Accident
, '' Sun Sentinel'', March 26, 2004 He has won the US Handicap, the Sunshine League, the Pacific Coast Open, the Silver Cup, the Monty Waterbury Cup, the America Cup, the US Arena Handicap, and the Interscholastic Arena Championship. While attending the University of California, Davis he won the 1978 National USPA Intercollegiate Championship with his brothers

FD Walton FD or similar may refer to: Science and technology *Canon FD lens mount, a standard for connecting a lens to a camera * Familial dysautonomia, a disorder of the autonomic nervous system *Fermi–Dirac statistics (F–D statistics), in quantum ...

and

Bil Walton professional polo player BIL or Bil may refer to: Mythology * Bil, a Norse goddess * Bil (Mandaeism), the Mandaean name for Jupiter People * Bil Baird (1904–1987), American puppeteer * Bil Dwyer (1907-1987), American cartoonist and humorist * Bil Dwyer (born 1962) ...

. Internationally, he has won the Westchester Cup, the Coronation Cup, the Queen's Cup, and the Mexican Open Handicap. In 1995, he suffered an injury after falling off his horse in Malaysia, thus ending his career as a player.Polo Players Support Group, Rob Walton's biography
/ref> He is paralysed from the neck down, and uses a wheelchair. He is now a polo coach. He has paved the way for the creation of the Polo Players Support Group, which takes care of polo players who suffer injuries.Polo Players Support Group
/ref> He was inducted into the Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame in Lake Worth, Florida on March 3, 2000. His son, Del Walton, currently rated three goals, plays polo and owns Walton Farm a breeding and training farm in South Carolina for polo horses.

References

Living people American polo players People with tetraplegia Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-sport-bio-stub