Gaston Peers de Nieuwburgh

Gaston Peers de Nieuwburgh was a Belgian polo player, born in Brussels on 28 December 1867 and died in Lige on 28 August 1922. He competed in the polo tournament at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, playing at back for Belgium in two matches. Olympedia records that he lived for years in Argentina as administrator of the Belgian colony of La Barrancosa, and that nearly all his polo before the 1920 Games was played there. With his San Carlos team he won the River Plate Open Championship in 1901, the forerunner of the Argentine Open and a title no other Belgian has won, and in 1908 he won the Copa Anchorena. He played to a six-goal handicap.