The PIPA Snow Polo World Cup Tour is an international played series of worldwide Polo tournaments organized by the PIPA Polo Instructors and Players Association in cooperation wit
A Quechua World of Polo
Snow Polo Tournaments are played in teams with two or three players each. Teams are built by nationality, so for example there plays team

Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourt ...

versus

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

. The game and the rules are similar to

Arena 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 ...

History

What started with a single event in 2010 became bigger each year and since 2014 the PIPA Polo Instructors and Players Association Snow Polo World Cup Tour is held in several events across Europe. It generates more and more media visibility like the events at the famous Munich Olympicparc with more than 15.000 spectators every day, o
event in Bad Gastein
or the Olympic Region Seefeld Since the beginning of the Snow Polo World Cup, 13 nations have registered to participate at the events. Beneath middle-European nations like

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

, also the grand nations of Polo like

Uruguay Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast, while bordering the Río de la Plata to the south and the A ...

Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ...

have registered for the world series.

Snow Polo World Cup St. Moritz

Source: Since 1985 https://www.snowpolo-stmoritz.com/previous-events/ # 40th Snow Polo World Cup St. Moritz 2025 # 41th Snow Polo World Cup St. Moritz 2026

2016 PIPA Snow Polo World Cup Tour

The 2016 PIPA Snow Polo World Cup Tour consisted of 5 events, three of them were played and two had to be cancelled,

Munich Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...

because of too high temperatures and Rogla due to noncompliance of the community of

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regarding the PIPA grooming standards and guidelines. The first event took place in

Seefeld in Tirol Seefeld in Tirol is an old farming village, now a major tourist resort, in Innsbruck-Land District in the Austrian state of Tyrol (state), Tyrol with a local population of 3,312 (as of 1 January 2013). The village is located about northwest of Inn ...

, where the German team with Joe Reinhard and Marie Haupt won after three gamedays. The second event was played under floodlight at

Ramsau am Dachstein Ramsau am Dachstein () is a municipality in the district of Liezen, state of Styria, Austria. It is also the name of the elevated plateau between the Dachstein range and the Enns valley on which this municipality is located. The appendage ''am D ...

. After three days of polo

England England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It ...

with playing captain could win the final game against

with playing captain Dr. Uwe Seebacher. The third event was played at

Bad Gastein Bad Gastein ( is a spa town in the St. Johann im Pongau District. Picturesquely situated in a high valley of the Hohe Tauern mountain range, it is known for the Gastein waterfall and a variety of grand hotel buildings. Geography Bad Gastein i ...

. Having windy conditions and warm temperatures it was again the English team winning the tournament after a thrilling final game against Austria. According to those results, Austria won the 2016 tour two points ahead of England. For Austria, this title is the second one after 2014. The final table looks as follows: # Austria / 14 points # England / 12 points # Germany / 6 points # USA / 5 points # Italy, South Africa / 4 points The tour reached a high media attention,

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reported as well as many national and international newspapers and websites.

Previous Tour Results

The 2014 PIPA Snow Polo World Cup Tour was won by Austria, the 2015 champions were England. Here are the final tables for 2014 and 2015: 2015 Tour Ranking: #England (Tim Ward, Mac Aberle and Chris Voelkers) #Austria (Uwe Seebacher, Klarina Pichler and Benjamin Darroux) #Germany (Captain Joe Reinhard, Stefan Coszma and Marc van Eupen) 2014 Tour Ranking: #Austria 12 points #Slovakia 11 points #Switzerland 8 points #Italy 7 points #Germany 5 points #Liechtenstein 5 points #Denmark 3 points #Czech Republic 3 points

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