Bartolomé Castagnola

Argentine polo player

Bartolomé Castagnola
Castagnola in 2003
Born	(1970-06-16) June 16, 1970 (age 53) Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires Province
Occupation	Polo Player
Spouse	Camila Cambiaso
Children	3 sons

Bartolomé Castagnola (born June 16, 1970, in Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires Province) is an Argentine polo player with a 10-goal polo handicap and ranked among the top twenty players.^[1] He is often referred to as Lolo.^{[citation needed]}

Biography

Career

Bartolomé Castagnola started playing polo seriously, when he was 14 and his father took him to the La Martina Polo School, where he got to know Adolfo Cambiaso. In 1988, he started playing polo abroad, when he went to San Diego with Marcelo Caset and won the San Diego Open. Since then, he won the Sotogrande Gold Cup, the US Open, the USPA Gold Cup, the Queen's Cup and the Hurlingham Open among other.

He participated 14 times in the Campeonato Argentino Abierto de Polo (Argentine Open), won six times and took part in the final another three times.^[2]

Castagnola played for La Martina, Ellerstina, Outback and Dubai and played in Argentina, Spain, Dubai, United Kingdom and Australia. In 2000 he co-founded the La Dolfina Polo Team, together with Adolfo Cambiaso, where he usually played on position 4. In 2011 he split with Cambiaso and founded La Natividad.

Marriage

Bartolomé is married to Camila Cambiaso, sister of Adolfo Cambiaso. They have four sons: Bartolomé Jr., Camilo, Benicio and Lola, with the two elders also professional polo players, having won the 2019 British Open Polo Championship for Dubai Polo Team.^[3]

References

^ Ranking Archived 2009-09-21 at the Wayback Machine
^ Asociación Argentina de Polo Archived July 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
^ El mañana llegó: los sobrinos de Cambiaso son campeones del torneo más grande de Europa - Xavier Prieto Astigarraga, La Nación, 21 July 2019