PIPA Snow Polo World Cup Tour

The PIPA Snow Polo World Cup Tour is an international played series of worldwide Polo tournaments organized by the PIPA Polo Instructors and Players Association in cooperation with A Quechua World of Polo. Snow Polo Tournaments are played in teams with two or three players each. Teams are built by nationality, so for example there plays team Argentina versus Austria. The game and the rules are similar to Arena polo.

History

What started with a single event in 2010 became bigger each year and since 2014 the PIPA Polo Instructors and Players Association Snow Polo World Cup Tour is held in several events across Europe. It generates more and more media visibility[1] like the events at the famous Munich Olympicparc with more than 15.000 spectators every day, or event in Bad Gastein or the Olympic Region Seefeld[2] Since the beginning of the Snow Polo World Cup, 13 nations have registered to participate at the events. Beneath middle-European nations like Austria or Germany, also the grand nations of Polo like Argentina, Uruguay or Brazil have registered for the world series.

2016 Snow Polo World Cup Tour

In 2016, the tour consists of four events in famous european winter sports destinations. Tournaments will take place in Seefeld_in_Tirol, Kulm_(flying_hill), Bad_Gastein and Rogla_Ski_Resort. For 2016, PIPA wants to get sponsored teams to play for the World Championship like in the Formula One. The 2016 World Cup Tour will start January 22 to 24 and the final will be on March 11 to 13 in Rogla.

Previous Tour Results

The 2014 PIPA Snow Polo World Cup Tour was won by Austria, the 2015 champions were England. Here are the final tables for 2014[3] and 2015:[4]

2015 Tour Ranking

  1. England (Tim Ward, Mac Aberle and Chris Voelkers)
  2. Austria (Uwe Seebacher, Klarina Pichler and Benjamin Darroux)
  3. Germany (Captain Joe Reinhard, Stefan Coszma and Marc van Eupen)


2014 Tour Ranking:

  1. Austria 12 points
  2. Slovakia 11 points
  3. Switzerland 8 points
  4. Italy 7 points
  5. Germany 5 points
  6. Liechtenstein 5 points
  7. Denmark 3 points
  8. Czech Republic 3 points

See also

Arena polo
PIPA Polo Instructors and Players Association
Polo

External links

References

  1. ↑ http://snowpolo.org/clippings/
  2. ↑ http://blog.seefeld.com/nachbericht-international-snow-polo-turnier.htm
  3. ↑ http://snowpolo.org/review-2014/
  4. ↑ http://snowpolo.org/review-2015/
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