Andrés Gazzotti

Andrés Gazzotti (born 1896, died 1984) was an Argentine polo player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Argentine polo team that won the gold medal, and he played both matches of the tournament, the first against Mexico and the final against Great Britain. The English Wikipedia article on him is brief, so this entry keeps to those facts and does not give a day of birth, since the sources read for it disagree on the date. Polo is a mounted team sport in which riders strike a ball with long-handled mallets, and the Argentine gold of 1936 is the Olympic result for which he is recorded.