University of London Polo Club wins the International University Polo challenge 2015

University of London Polo Club wins the International University Polo challenge 2015

 

Six teams representing all five continents competing in Rome during last week-end in the 3rd International University Polo Challenge (IUPC). The tournament aiming to bring together the best university players in the world and, as in previous two years, has been hosted at the prestigious Acquedotto Romano Polo Club, just outside the ‘eternal city’.

 

The exciting final match (3 chukkers) was played between Cornell (Ithaca-New York), winner of IUPC 2014, and University of London Polo Club (London).

 

The British polo team, including Natascha Hedegaard, Arthur Cole-Fontayn, Reda Shetty, James Cooper, dominated the scene from the first chukker and won the final (6-4) despite Cornell (three girls and the captain Hakan Karabey, the only one competing in the 2014 winner team) did one impressive third chukker, scoring 3 goals. In the other finals, Sydney beat Lahore (6-5) for 3rd and 4th place and Accra defeated Princeton (3-2) for 5th and 6th place.

 

TEAMS:

 

GROUP A

 

UNIVERSITY of LONDON POLO CLUB – Great Britain (Natascha Hedegaard -1, Arthur Cole-Fontayn -1, Reda Shetty 0, James Cooper 1)

 

LAHORE UNIVERSITY – Pakistan (Malik Muhammad Shamsher Aslam -2, Sahibzada Iskander Pataudi 0, Sufi Haroon 0, Mumtaz Abbas Khan 1)

 

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY – United States (Kasey Morris -2, Carolina Salazar -1, Richard Weidel 1, Cacho Galindo 2)

 

GROUP B

 

UNIVERSITY of SYDNEY – Australia (Max Lloyd -2, Georgia Higgins -1, Jasper White 3, Hugh Coachrane 1)

 

CORNELL UNIVERSITY – United States (Kaitlin Hearn -1, Devin Cox 0, Anna Winslow 0, Hakan Karabey 1)

 

ACCRA BUSINESS SCHOOL – Ghana (Yannik Awuah-Darko -1, Segundo Darritchon -1, Rashid El Aschkar 0, Ramzy El Aschkar 0)

 

RESULTS TABLE

 

Saturday 11th of July – Finals

UoLPC vs CORNELL : 6 – 4 (1th–2nd place); SYDNEY vs LAHORE : 6 – 5 (3rd–4th place); ACCRA vs PRINCETON : 3 – 2 (5th–6th place)

 

Wednesday 8th of July

UoLPC vs LAHORE : 4 – 2 (Group A); SYDNEY vs CORNELL : 4 – 7.5 (Group B) Thursday 9th of July

LAHORE vs PRINCETON : 6 – 6 (Group A); CORNELL vs ACCRA : 7 – 3 (Group B) Friday 10th of July

UoLPC vs PRINCETON : 8 – 4 (Group A); SYDNEY vs ACCRA : 11 – 2.5 (Group B)

 

The Australian Jasper White (hp 3) has been awarded as MVP (Most Valuable Player) of

 

the tournament.