Horseball

Horseball is a sport played on horseback where a ball is handled and goals are scored by shooting it through a hoop with a diameter of 1m.

The ball and the basis of the Goals was "borrowed from Pato, the Argentine national sport but there the similarity ends.

It was developed by a French group under the presidency of Jean Paul Depons, a riding instructor and rugby player from Bordeaux.

In the late 1970s, the French Equestrian Federation (FFE) accepted horseball as a discipline and it soon became popular in France.

In 1992 the International Commission of Horseball was established, with France, Belgium, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, and Portugal as members.

The teams that played in the championship were Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Portugal, Spain.

This competition began in 2007 in Stockholm, Sweden, between the top clubs from each of the four highest ranked European nations.

In 2007, it was won by Chambly Horse-Ball France), Sporting Clube de Portugal CEJC got Silver and Caramel from Belgium got Bronze.