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[[File:Polo 1900.jpg|thumb|Polo tournament at the 1900 Olympic Games]]
{{short description|1900 Summer Olympics polo}}
{{use dmy dates|date=April 2021}}
{{Infobox Olympic event
|event = Men's polo
|games = 1900 Summer
|image = Polo pictogram.svg
|caption = Polo pictogram
|venue = [[Bois de Boulogne]]
|dates = 28 May – 2 June 1900
|competitors = 19
|nations = 4
|longnames = yes
|gold = [[Foxhunters Hurlingham]]
|goldNOC = ZZX
|silver = [[BLO Polo Club Rugby]]
|silverNOC = ZZX
|bronze = [[Bagatelle Polo Club de Paris]]
|bronzeNOC = ZZX
|bronze2 = [[Mexico National Polo Team]]
|bronzeNOC2 = ZZX
|prev = 
|next = [[Polo at the 1908 Summer Olympics|1908]]
}}

At the [[1900 Summer Olympics]], a [[polo]] tournament was contested.  Matches were held on 28 May, 31 May, and 2 June. Five teams competed. Four of these teams were of mixed nationality, with British and French athletes competing on three teams. There was no playoff for third place.

==Background==

The "Olympic" polo tournament, or the "Grand Prix International d'Exposition", was one of multiple polo tournaments played in Paris in late May and early June 1900. It was the first time that polo was played at the Olympics; the sport would appear again in 1908, 1920, 1924, and 1936. Each time, the tournament was for men only.<ref name=Olympedia>{{cite web |url=http://www.olympedia.org/results/30900 |title=Polo, Men |work=Olympedia |access-date=13 April 2021}}</ref>

==Competition format==

The competition was a single elimination tournament, with no third place match. Teams did not have to consist of entirely players from a single nation at the time, with four of the five competing teams being mixed. 

Further, players were apparently permitted to play for multiple teams during the same tournament: [[Maurice Raoul-Duval]] played for both Bagatelle and Compiègne.<ref name=Olympedia/>

==Participating nations==
A total of 20 players from 4 nations competed at the Paris Games:

* {{flagIOC|FRA|1900 Summer|7}}
* {{flagIOC|GBR|1900 Summer|6}}
* {{flagIOC|MEX|1900 Summer|3}}
* {{flagIOC|USA|1900 Summer|4}}

==Results==
{{Round8
| bold_winner = high
| RD1 = Quarterfinal
| team-width = 280
| skipmatch = 2-4
| omit_blanks = yes
|28 May
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Foxhunters Hurlingham]]|ZZX|1900 Summer}}|10
|{{FlagIOCathlete|[[Compiègne Polo Club]]|FRA|1900 Summer}}|0

|31 May
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Foxhunters Hurlingham]]|ZZX|1900 Summer}}|6
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Bagatelle Polo Club de Paris]]|ZZX|1900 Summer}}|4

|31 May
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[BLO Polo Club Rugby]]|ZZX|1900 Summer}}|8
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[North American Team]]|ZZX|1900 Summer}}|0

|2 June
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Foxhunters Hurlingham]]|ZZX|1900 Summer}}|3
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[BLO Polo Club Rugby]]|ZZX|1900 Summer}}|1
}}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Rank || Team || Nation
|-
|align=center| {{Gold1}} || [[Foxhunters Hurlingham]] || {{flagIOC|GBR|1900 Summer}} <br> {{flagIOC|USA|1900 Summer}}
|-
|align=center| {{Silver2}} || [[BLO Polo Club Rugby]] || {{flagIOC|GBR|1900 Summer}} <br> {{flagIOC|USA|1900 Summer}} <br> {{flagIOC|FRA|1900 Summer}}
|-
|rowspan=2 align=center| {{Bronze3}} || [[Bagatelle Polo Club de Paris]] || {{flagIOC|FRA|1900 Summer}} <br> {{flagIOC|GBR|1900 Summer}}
|-
| [[North American Team]] || {{flagIOC|MEX|1900 Summer}} <br> {{flagIOC|USA|1900 Summer}} <br>
|-
|align=center| 5 || [[Compiègne Polo Club]] || {{flagIOC|FRA|1900 Summer}}
|}

==Rosters==

===Foxhunters Hurlingham===

* {{FlagIOCathlete|[[John Beresford (polo player)|John Beresford]]|GBR|1900 Summer}}
* {{FlagIOCathlete|[[Denis St. George Daly]]|GBR|1900 Summer}}
* {{FlagIOCathlete|[[Foxhall Parker Keene]]|USA|1900 Summer}}
* {{FlagIOCathlete|[[Frank MacKey]]|USA|1900 Summer}}
* {{FlagIOCathlete|[[Sir Alfred Rawlinson, 3rd Baronet|Alfred Rawlinson]]|GBR|1900 Summer}}

===BLO Polo Club Rugby===

* {{FlagIOCathlete|[[Walter Buckmaster]]|GBR|1900 Summer}}
* {{FlagIOCathlete|[[Frederick Freake]]|GBR|1900 Summer}}
* {{FlagIOCathlete|[[Walter McCreery]]|USA|1900 Summer}}
* {{FlagIOCathlete|[[Jean de Madre]]|FRA|1900 Summer}}

===Bagatelle Polo Club de Paris===

* {{FlagIOCathlete|[[Robert Fournier-Sarlovèze]]|FRA|1900 Summer}}
* {{FlagIOCathlete|[[Frederick Agnew Gill]]|GBR|1900 Summer}}
* {{FlagIOCathlete|[[Maurice Raoul-Duval]]<ref name="Raoul">Raoul-Duval played on two different teams.</ref>|FRA|1900 Summer}}
* {{FlagIOCathlete|[[Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild]]|FRA|1900 Summer}}

===North American Team===

* {{FlagIOCathlete|[[Eustaquio de Escandón]]|MEX|1900 Summer}}
* {{FlagIOCathlete|[[Manuel de Escandón]]|MEX|1900 Summer}}
* {{FlagIOCathlete|[[Pablo de Escandón]]|MEX|1900 Summer}}
* {{FlagIOCathlete|[[Guillermo Hayden Wright]]|USA|1900 Summer}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/17818 |title=William Hayden Wright |work=Olympedia |accessdate=27 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/paris-1900/results/polo/polo-men| title= Paris 1900 Polo Men Results |website=Olympics.com|access-date=2021-08-02}}</ref>

===Compiègne Polo Club===

* {{FlagIOCathlete|[[Armand de La Rochefoucauld, duc de Bisaccia]]|FRA|1900 Summer}}
* {{FlagIOCathlete|[[Jean Boussod]]|FRA|1900 Summer}}
* {{FlagIOCathlete|[[André Fauquet-Lemaître]]|FRA|1900 Summer}}
* {{FlagIOCathlete|[[Maurice Raoul-Duval]]<ref name="Raoul"/>|FRA|1900 Summer}}

==Medal table==

All four medals were won by mixed teams. Great Britain had competitors on the gold, the silver and one of the bronze medal teams, the United States on the gold, the silver medal teams and one of the bronze medal teams. France had players on the silver and one of the bronze medal teams, while Mexico had three players on the other bronze medal team.

{{Medals table
 | caption        = 
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 | flag_template  = FlagIOC
 | event          = 1900 Summer
 | team           = 
 | gold_ZZX = 1 | silver_ZZX = 1 | bronze_ZZX = 2
}}

==Notes==
<references/>

==References==
* [http://olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp International Olympic Committee] medal winners database
* De Wael, Herman. ''Herman's Full Olympians'': "Polo 1900".  Accessed 25 February 2006. Available electronically at [http://users.skynet.be/hermandw/olymp/pol1900.html ].
* {{cite book | author = Mallon, Bill | year = 1998 | title = The 1900 Olympic Games, Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary | publisher = McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers | location = Jefferson, North Carolina | isbn = 0-7864-0378-0 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/1900olympicgames00mall }}

{{Events at the 1900 Summer Olympics}}
{{Polo at the Summer Olympics}}

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