Club Natación y Gimnasia is a

rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In it ...

and

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club from

San Miguel de Tucumán San Miguel de Tucumán (; usually called simply Tucumán) is the capital and largest city of Tucumán Province, located in northern Argentina from Buenos Aires. It is the fifth-largest city of Argentina after Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Argentina, ...

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. Founded in 1930 as a multi-sports club, Natación y Gimnasia is registered with the

Unión de Rugby de Tucumán The Tucuman Rugby Union ( es, Unión de Rugby de Tucumán) or URT is the organisational body that controls the game of rugby union in the province of Tucumán, Argentina. History Rugby was first played in Tucumán in 1915, when British enthusia ...

. Despite its name,

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and

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are no longer practiced at the club. Natación y Gimnasia is one of the most successful rugby clubs in Tucumán, having won the

Torneo del Noroeste The Torneo Regional del NOA (NorOeste Argentino – Argentine North-West), also known as Torneo del Noroeste, is a regional rugby union competition in Argentina. Originally, only clubs from the Tucumán RU took part. In successive editions the c ...

8 times to date.

History

The institution was founded in San Miguel de Tucumán on 21 February 1930, as a multi-sports club. A large variety of activities were practiced at the club, including

equestrianism Equestrianism (from Latin , , , 'horseman', 'horse'), commonly known as horse riding (Commonwealth English) or horseback riding (American English), includes the disciplines of riding, driving, and vaulting. This broad description includes the ...

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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 cov ...

and of course

and

. The

section, for which the club is most famous today, started in 1941. By the 1940s the club had become one of the best multi-sports club in the country. Following a controversial political decision, the club was absorbed by the

Universidad Nacional de Tucumán Universidad (Spanish for "university") may refer to: Places * Universidad, San Juan, Puerto Rico * Universidad (Madrid) Football clubs * Universidad SC, a Guatemalan football club that represents the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala ...

in 1945. The club would try and fight the decision, to no avail. Members of the rugby section, unhappy with the decision, decided not to join UNT and created a new club, using the old Natación y Gimnasia name. Playing the game since 1936, Natación y Gimnasia's

section was officially founded in 1941 thus becoming the first rugby club in the province. Along with Tucumán Rugby Club,

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and Cardenales, Natación became one of the four founding clubs of the

. Following the club's takeover by the

, members of the rugby section decided to keep the old institution alive and re-founded Club Natación y Gimnasia in 1945 as a rugby union club only. As most installations of the old club had also been taken over by UNT, the new club had to find somewhere to play. The club used the fields originally used by the equestrianism section of Natación, until the club acquired their own installations (following another political decision) in 1988. Today the club is one of the most successful rugby institutions in the province, having won the provincial title 8 times. In 2012 Natación y Gimnasia started the construction of a

stadium to host the 2012–14 Women's FIH Hockey World League Final that would be held in November–December 2013. With a budget of $ 20 million, this stadium has over 1,450 seats which added to the mobile grandstands that can be erected make a total capacity of over 6,400.

Titles

Rugby union

(8): 1947, 1949, 1955, 1957, 1961, 1995, 1996, 2016

References

External links

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