Juan Carlos Harriott Jr. (28 October 1936 – 11 September 2023) was an Argentine

polo Polo is a stick and ball game that is played on horseback as a traditional field sport. It is one of the world's oldest known team sports, having been adopted in the Western world from the game of Chovgan (), which originated in ancient ...

player. He was known as "Juancarlitos" to distinguish him from his father and was also given the nickname "El Inglés" (The Englishman).

Biography

Juan Carlos Harriott Jr. was born on 28 October 1936. In 1953 he obtained a polo handicap of 1, and then was soon raised to 3 in the same year. He reached a handicap of 10 goals in 1961. He stayed at a 10-goal handicap until his retirement in 1980. He held the record of having won the

Argentine Open Polo Championship The Campeonato Argentino Abierto de Polo (Spanish for Argentine Open Polo Championship) is an international polo championship at club level, organised every year since 1893 at the Campo Argentino de Polo of Palermo, Buenos Aires. It was known as ...

20 times, the

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15 times, and the Tortugas Open 7 times. He also holds the record with his team Coronel Suárez of 38 tournaments won. He won the Triple Crown four times (1972, 1974, 1975 and 1977), two of them consecutively. Representing

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he won in the Copa de las Américas in 1966, 1969, 1979, and 1980. He also won the Sesquicentennial Cup in 1966. In 1975 and 1976, with the Villafranca team, he won the Sotogrande Gold Cup,

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. Juan C. Harriott Jr. died on 11 September 2023, at the age of 86.

Tournament results

Argentine Polo Open Championship (20): 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1979.Polo in Argentina: A History
by Horace A. Laffaye

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Harriott, Juan C., Jr. 1936 births 2023 deaths Argentine polo players