Chantilly Polo Club, the host of this first edition of the POLO RIDER CUP, will have a challenging tournament with its team playing against an armada of international clubs, featuring the Hamburger Polo Club (GER), Dos Lunas Polo Club (SPA), Moscow Polo Club (RUS), Evviva Polo St. Moritz (SUI), Düsseldorf Polo Club (GER), Las Brisas Polo Club of Chicago (USA) and Empire Polo Club of Coachella Valley (USA). The POLO RIDER CUP will be held from 10 to 20 June 2021 at the Polo Club of Chantilly, north of Paris.
The Chantilly Polo Club team will comprise the following players:
1. Sam Sztarkman (+1)
2. Jota Chavanne (+5)
3. Martin Joaquin (+5)
4. Alex Sztarkman, Captain (+1)
Arnaud de Chênevarin, President of the Chantilly Polo Club, comments: “We are delighted to welcome this event and to have a team representing the Club for the launch of the POLO RIDER CUP. We hope this innovative event will become an unmissable tournament on the international circuit! With teams from all over the world, this first edition promises to be very competitive and to offer the public, both on site and behind their screens, a great show and great polo games!”
Benoît Perrier, CEO & Co-Founder of GAME Polo, comments: “The Polo Club of Chantilly has been supporting the POLO RIDER CUP right from the beginning, by hosting this event and participating with one of its own teams. This momentum has been essential for launching the POLO RIDER CUP with the FIP. Their team is a family team, one of the strongest values of the club. The team is well balanced with a lot of attack and a very good defense.”
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About CHANTILLY POLO CLUB (https://www.poloclubchantilly.com) A short distance from Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport, the Chantilly Polo Club is located in a large clearing of one of the royal forests surrounding Paris, on the grounds of the big village farm of Apremont. This club has all the qualities required for world level competitions and is a heaven for the amateur riders who have adopted this ancient team game. Throughout the seasons, sharing the same passion for horses and polo, the founders of the club gather with their children and even their grandchildren. Each year, the number of sports-loving families grows, with new members who discover many famous international players every spring and who love to gather near Paris and appreciate the beauty of the countryside along with the marvels of Chantilly Castle. The quality of our fields and our organization has allowed us to host one World Championship and two European Championships but, above all, our pride is to give junior riders the possibility to learn in full safety, for champions to be provided with the best international standards and for lone riders to be able to enjoy the ideal landscape of Picardie, just 40 minutes away from the Eiffel tower, and to appreciate the silence of endless meadows and the calm of the countryside.
