"in 1974, has responsibility for croquet in Scotland. Notable Scottish croquet players include Compton Mackenzie. Elephant polo is not played in Scotland, but gained notoriety within Scotland when The Duke of Argyll's team representing Scotland won the 2001, 2004 and 2005 Elephant Polo World Championships. Field hockey is mainly played in the Lowlands, where it displaced shinty. Scotland has a very long successful history of ice hockey, and it is the third most attended team sport in the country after association football and rugby union. Scotland are host to the oldest ice hockey team in Britain which are the Fife"
"Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh competed and lost in 1964 and 1966. Meanwhile, Charles, Prince of Wales's team, Les Diables Bleus, won in 1986. Polo champion Adolfo Cambiaso won the cup ten times. According to ""Country Life"", it is the ""jewel in the polo calendar"" and it ""encapsulates the best of the British season."" Cartier Queen's Cup The Cartier Queen's Cup is a 22-goal polo tournament at the Guards Polo Club in England. Named after Queen Elizabeth II, it is held annually in May-June. According to ""Country Life"", it is the ""jewel in the polo calendar"" and it ""encapsulates the"
"but steely determination, to the delight of the partisan home crowd. Scotland won 13-7, and with it their third Grand Slam. The second World Cup took place in 1991 with matches shared between the Five Nations. Scotland won their pool, though the game against Ireland was close, and then beat Western Samoa in the quarter-final. They went out to England in the semi-final held at Murrayfield to a Rob Andrew drop goal. In the third place play-off they were again beaten by New Zealand. The third World Cup, held in South Africa, came around in 1995. The tournament followed a"
"win in Paris since 1969. The last Five Nations match was another Grand Slam decider against England, however this time the English defeated the Scots 24–12, largely due to the kicking prowess of Rob Andrew. The third World Cup, held in South Africa, came in 1995. Pool play saw a narrow defeat by France, thanks to an injury-time try, and Scotland finished second in the pool. They were eliminated in the quarter-final against New Zealand. Scotland won the last-ever Five Nations Championship in 1999 with a last minute win by Wales over England. However, in the 1999 World Cup they"
"successfully competes. The Club has been in the forefront of supporting polo for the young. Through the season it holds representative matches and tournaments for the Pony Club, and for Schools, Universities and young players from the Armed Forces. Guards Polo Club The Guards Polo Club is an English polo club in Windsor, Berkshire. It is most closely associated with the British Royal Family. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh has been President of the club since its formation on 25 January 1955 and Queen Elizabeth II is its patron.<ref name=""The Polo Magazine 6/08"">The Polo Magazine 6/08</ref> The Club is based"
"water polo team in the world in 2005, after their win against Croatia in the bronze medal game at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Canada. The domestic top water polo leagues, Greek Men's Water Polo League and Greek Women's Water Polo League are considered amongst the top national leagues in European water polo, as its clubs have made significant success in European competitions. In men's European competitions, Olympiacos has won the Champions League, the European Super Cup and the Triple Crown in 2002 becoming the first club in water polo history to win every title in which it has"
"back. Chris Melling (pool player) Christopher ""The Magician"" Melling is a British professional pool and snooker player and former world number 1 at World Rules British 8-Ball. He won the English Pool Association World Rules World Championship twice, in 2001 and 2003. He was ranked #1 in 2003 by the World Eight-ball Pool Federation. He has also twice won the International Pool Masters (2001 and 2002) and the European Professional title (2002). He was the first player to win two International Tour events back to back. In 2001 he reached the last 16 of the World 9-Ball Championship in Cardiff,"
"in the early Olympics. Scotland had a proud tradition of amateur water polo with many strong clubs across the country. However, it took a downturn after the early 1990s at which point it was successfully competing in home countries and 8 nations tournaments. As the rest of the world moved to deep water facilities, increased their training regime and professionalized their coaching structures, Scotland's water polo remained static and fell far behind. The national squad stopped competing in internationals in 2003 with the exception of the women's squad competing at the Commonwealth tournament in Perth in 2006. However, the sport"
"in 2008. Graeme Obree and David Millar (no relation) have also reached the very peak of their respective events. Scotland is the home of curling which, although not as popular today as in Canada, remains more popular in Scotland than anywhere else in Europe. The Scottish men's team are the world's second most successful curling nation having won a total of 32 World Championship medals including 5 golds, with the most recent coming in 2009. The Scotland Women's Team have won the World Championships on two occasions in 2002 and 2013. Although elite-level curlers have been assisted significantly by funding"
"World Championship is played together with the World Swimming Championship, under the auspices of FINA. Women's water polo was added in 1986. A second tournament series, the FINA Water Polo World Cup, has been held every other year since 1979. In 2002, FINA organized the sport's first international league, the FINA Water Polo World League, in which the best national teams compete against one another in an annual season format with nearly half a million dollar purse. Internationally, the biggest water polo competition in the world is played in the Netherlands. Prince William of Wales was the captain of his"
"Cup. After the 2005 European Championship triumph of the Greek national basketball team, Greece became the reigning European Champion in both football and basketball. The Greece women's national water polo team have emerged as one of the leading powers in the world, becoming World Champions after their gold medal win against the hosts China at the 2011 World Championship. They also won the silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics, the gold medal at the 2005 World League and the silver medals at the 2010 and 2012 European Championships. The Greece men's national water polo team became the third best"
"in 2014. Netball is played mostly by girls from the age of ten to fifteen, and is popular in private schools. Cue sports are very popular in Scotland. Pool tables are commonly to be found in Scottish pubs and social clubs. Scotland has produced many great snooker players over the years. Many of which have gone on to win the World Championship. Walter Donaldson was the first Scotsman to be crowned World Champion, winning in 1947 and again in 1950. In the modern snooker era the most successful Scottish snooker player is Stephen Hendry. He has won the World Snooker"
"Billiard so he can play in the Chinese 8 Ball Tournament. As of 2015 Potts has concentrated his career on Chinese 8 Ball pool. From 2013 onwards, pool table retailer Home Leisure Direct announced they were Official Sponsor of Potts, and begun offering coaching days, as well as instructional 'How to Play' video guides. Gareth Potts Gareth 'Potts' Potts (born 30 June 1983) is an English 3 time world champion eight-ball pool player, winning the English Pool Association World Rules World Championship in 2005, 2007 and 2008. He was also IPA World Blackball Professional Champion in 2014. He also won"
"represent Scotland in sport. Outside of sport, she works as a Web content developer and journalist for BBC News Online, and got her start in media as a cue sports reporter for the ""Blackpool Gazette"", and ""Pot Black Magazine"". She completed a degree in law and accountancy at the University of Central Lancashire in 1997. Horsburgh's partner Karl Boyes, is also world champion – winner of the 2008 WPA World Cup of Pool (one of the top professional male events in nine-ball) and the 2010 WPA World Eight-ball Championship; he is co-owner of Blackpool's remaining pool and snooker club, Qs"
"Gareth Potts Gareth 'Potts' Potts (born 30 June 1983) is an English 3 time world champion eight-ball pool player, winning the English Pool Association World Rules World Championship in 2005, 2007 and 2008. He was also IPA World Blackball Professional Champion in 2014. He also won the 2000 Junior World Pool Championships. Potts won the Chinese 8 Ball Masters in 2013 beating Chris Melling 17-9 in the final. The match was best of 33. He successfully defended the Chinese 8 Ball Masters in 2014 by beating Shi Hang-Qing 15-6 in a 210-minute match. Potts had signed a contract with Joy"
"Chile hosted the 2006 Women's World Roller Hockey Championship and won the championship by defeating Spain in the final. And won the Roller Hockey America's Cup in 2007 and the Pan American Ice Hockey Championship in 2011. Chile is the current world polo champion, achieved in May 2008, after beating Brazil 11-9 in the final game of the 2008 Polo World Cup in Mexico City. The late Gabriel Donoso was the greatest polo player in Chile, having the highest handicap of 9 goals, and is remembered for having led the Chilean national team to win the prestigious Coronation Cup, awarded"
"the crowd reacting to Valentin Prokopov punching Ervin Zador. Every 2 to 4 years since 1973, a men's Water Polo World Championship is organized within the FINA World Aquatics Championships. Women's water polo was added in 1986. A second tournament series, the FINA Water Polo World Cup, has been held every other year since 1979. In 2002, FINA organised the sport's first international league, the FINA Water Polo World League. There is also a European Water Polo Championship that is held every other year. Professional water polo is played in many Southern and Eastern European countries like Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro,"
"era. Morrison’s vision was to convert the run down site into a premier polo club that would break down the ‘stuffy’ polo establishment. Following major earthworks, the first chukkas were played in 1986, an amazingly short timescale for such an undertaking and one that was considered unachievable within the polo world at the time. The founding member of this new club was H.RH. The Prince of Wales who, despite retiring from polo in 2005, bestows the Prince of Wales Trophy to the club, one of the most coveted trophies in polo and a tournament played annually at the Royal Berkshire"
"from the beginning and a couple of years into the new millennium. Until the Finnish gold in Riga 2005, Sweden had won all Team World Championships, until 2006 only Swedes had won the Open Swedish Masters, and until 2007 all individual world champions were Swedes. But the new generation comes from Finland, Russia, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Latvia, Canada, Denmark, USA, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Switzerland, Norway, Slovenia, Hungary, Slovakia and Lithuania, and its current big star is Maxim Borisov from Russia who is the reigning World and European champion. Borisov has been ranked #1 in the world since December 2013. Since the"
"Cycle polo Cycle polo is a team sport, similar to traditional polo, except that bicycles are used instead of horses. There are two versions of the sport: grass and Hardcourt Bike Polo. The hardcourt game saw a sharp spike in interest in the first decade of the 21st century and new teams are sprouting up across the world - in China, Canada, Ireland, Switzerland, France, India, Germany, Pakistan, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Hungary, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, England, Scotland, Argentina, Italy, Spain, USA, Poland, Croatia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Nepal, Brazil and Cuba. Traditional cycle polo is played in a rectangular grass"
"and 2013 World Championships, Scotland's first world title in the women's event since 2002. They are also the 2012 and 2013 European silver medallists. The 2013 Scottish world champion team of Muirhead, Sloan, Vicki Adams (second) and Claire Hamilton (lead) were selected to represent Great Britain at the 2014 Winter Olympics, where they won the bronze medal. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, with Sochi alternate Lauren Gray replacing Hamilton in lead, the team finished fourth. She decided to take a break from curling following the 2017-2018 season. Sloan was born in Dumfries, Scotland and went to Glasgow Caledonian"
"of the game. But they did not score again, and the Czech team captured the bronze medal and Finland ended the tournament in fourth place. The gold medal game featured Russia and Slovakia. Slovakia played in the World Championship final game for the first time since 2002, while Russia advanced to their fourth gold medal game in the last five years. Russia defeated Slovakia 6–2 to take home the gold medal from the tournament. The Russian team went through the tournament undefeated. The following 16 nations qualified for the elite-pool tournament. 13 nations from Europe, 2 nations from North America"
"in 1924 and the second gold medal in 1936. Adolfo Cambiaso, Gonzalo Pieres, his brother Facundo, the Novillo Astrada brothers, the Heguy's, and Tommy Iriarte are currently ranked amongst the best polo players in the world. The three most important polo tournaments in the world, the Argentine Open, the Hurlingham Open, and the Tortugas Open are held in Argentina. Historically, Argentina has always been a leading country in this sport, and has been uninterrupted world champions since 1949 and Argentine players comprise most of the world's top ten players. Argentina has won five World Polo Championship. Among the best in"
"the second time in thirty years. Scotland's Gregor Townsend became only the fifth player in history to score a try against each other country in the five nations tournament. He also became the second Scotsman to do so, following on from Johnnie Wallace in 1925. The other men to achieve the feat were Carston Catcheside (England 1924), Patrick Esteve (France 1983) and Phillipe Sella (France 1986). After him, French Philippe Bernat-Salles scored a try in the 5 games of the new '6 Nations' in 2001. This was the last Five Nations Championship; in 2000, joined the tournament, which became the"
"for each winter. Bryan set up the original rules committee for UK arena polo. Arena polo is now the fastest growing version of the sport within the UK. The club now is undertaking an extensive expansion programme which will bring the addition of two further polo fields. Royal County of Berkshire Polo Club Established in 1985, by music mogul Bryan Morrison, the club’s founding member and patron was H.R.H. The Prince of Wales with both the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry as players. Held under the patronage of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, this tournament first played in 1986"
"Glenalmond College, and the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. At the latter, he trained as a chartered surveyor. He served as a Page of Honour to Queen Elizabeth II from 1981 to 1983. He became a sales agent, salesman and company manager. Among his 29 titles are: Master of the Royal Household of Scotland, Admiral of the Western Coasts and Isles, and the Chief of Clan Campbell. He is the captain of Scotland's national elephant polo team which won the 2004 and 2005 World Elephant Polo Association World Championships. He represents Pernod Ricard distillers, promoting Scotch whiskies. He is a Freeman"
"winning in 1994 and 2014 and finishing as runner-up on four other occasions. The 1995/1996 season saw the introduction of a Home Nations Championship between England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, which England won in its inaugural year. England won the Championship every year except from the 1997/98 season when Scotland won it. France joined the competition in the 1998/99 season making it the Five Nations Championship with England achieving the Grand Slam in three successive seasons. In the 2001/02 season, Ireland rejoined the fold in preparation for the World Cup, and the competition expanded to be known as the Six"
"of the pool. The game is thought to have originated in Scotland in the late 19th century as a sort of ""water rugby"". William Wilson is thought to have developed the game during a similar period. The game thus developed with the formation of the London Water Polo League and has since expanded, becoming widely popular in various places around the world, including Europe, the United States, Brazil, China, Canada and Australia. The history of water polo as a team sport began as a demonstration of strength and swimming skill in late 19th century England and Scotland, where water sports"
"is an Olympic sport and Great Britain achieved medal success in both Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004. The All-England Championships takes place in Birmingham every year and attracts all the top players from around the world. Although originating in Scotland, England has played a major role in the development of golf, including the origins of the Professional Golfers' Association (Great Britain & Ireland). Major golf tournaments held in England include the Open Championship (an English course hosting the event two years in every five) and the BMW PGA Championship, the flagship event of the European Tour. The Ryder Cup also"
"Association) since renamed, and currently, the PSA (Professional Squash Association) tour. Summary of Major Career Achievements: Softball : 4-time World Champion, incl. 1997 World Doubles Champion Highest World ranking: 4 Highest English National ranking: 1 England Captain with over 70 caps. As England Captain, he opened the 2002 Commonwealth Games Squash competition playing his first match, against Jamaica, watched by Queen Elizabeth II. Hardball : Singles: Winner 2013 US National Championship, Winner 2011 ISDA Players Championship. Doubles: World No.1 2007-08. Details. ""(Today)"" Currently runs a company called Squash Solutions that mainly focuses on teaching juniors out of several different locations"
"fields three national teams - men's, women's and an indoor side Rock-It-Ball has a minor presence, tending to be played in the Central Belt but is spreading throughout Scotland. The Scottish team won the World Cup in 2007 and 2011. Scotland is also leading the way in the individual version of the sport known as V2. The current World Champion is Scott MacMichael who plays his Rock-It-Ball with the Falkirk Cannons. He also is the only player to have won medals in the 2007 and 2011 team World Cup Victories. At Youth level Scotland has the top female player in"
"for European club teams. It is held over three legs each year in France, Ireland and Britain. The competition began in 2007 following the compromise between French and British/Irish traditional rules. V.C. Frileuse-Sanvic of France were crowned champions of the inaugural competition. Cycle polo Cycle polo is a team sport, similar to traditional polo, except that bicycles are used instead of horses. There are two versions of the sport: grass and Hardcourt Bike Polo. The hardcourt game saw a sharp spike in interest in the first decade of the 21st century and new teams are sprouting up across the world"
"polo, rowing, and the greasy pole. In 1910, King George V, then the Prince of Wales, gave to the club a cup, now referred to as the King's Cup, for an annual sailing competition. The next year, the prince became the club's patron. More than two decades later, on 13 October 1933, the king bestowed the title ""Royal"" upon the Gibraltar Yacht Club. The first visit by a reigning monarch was in May 1954, as the then patron Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visited the club after arriving in Gibraltar on the royal yacht"