Roberto Lorenzo Cavanagh (November 12, 1914 – September 15, 2002) was an

Argentine Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or (feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, s ...

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 ...

.Roberto Cavanagh, Sports-Reference / Olympic Sports
Retrieved 2019-03-21. He was part of the Argentine polo team, which won the gold medal. He played both matches in the tournament, the first against Mexico and the final against Great Britain. His older brother

Diego Cavanagh Santiago Miguel "Diego" Cavanagh y Hearne (May 16, 1905 – July 30, 1977) was an Argentine polo player at the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was a squad member of the Argentine polo team, which won the gold medal. He did not compete in the Berlin tour ...

was also a squad member, but did not compete.

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1914 births 2002 deaths Argentine people of British descent Argentine polo players Olympic polo players of Argentina Polo players at the 1936 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Argentina Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in polo {{Argentina-polo-bio-stub