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Key Events in Argentina Sport History

1864 The Buenos Aires Football club is founded.
1867 Rosario Athletic club is founded.
1891 The first soccer league is formed.
1904 The first rugby club consisting of native Argentineans is formed.
1923 Boxer Luis Angel Firpo knocks world champion Jack Dempsey out of the ring but loses the fight.
1923 The Argentina Olympic Committee is formed.
1924 Argentina participates in Olympics for the first time and wins the gold medal in polo.
1928 Argentina participates in the Winter Olympics for the first time.
1930 Argentina wins its first World Cup in soccer.
1936 Argentina wins the gold medal in polo at the Olympics. Swimmer Jeannette Campbell is the first Argentinian woman to compete in the Olympics.
1945 The first Provincial Championship in rugby is held.
1951 Juan Manuel Fangio wins the first of five major international auto racing titles.
1951 Argentina hosts the first Pan American Games in Buenos Aires.
1978 Argentina hosts and wins the World Cup.
1978 Argentina participates in the first South American Games.
1979 Argentina wins the Youth World Cup.
1990 Argentina hosts the only Pan American Winter Games.
1995 Argentina hosts the Pan American Maccabiah Games.
2004 Argentina wins eight medals, four of them gold, at the Olympics.

Published: July 31, 2012

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