Basque pelota at the 1900 Summer Olympics

Basque pelota
at the Games of the II Olympiad
Basque pelota; at the Games of the II Olympiad
	In addition to the scheduled amateur Basque pelota tournament, a professional tournament was played at Borghese Street, number 26, Neuilly-sur-Seine.
Venue	Neuilly-sur-Seine
Date	14 June 1900
Competitors	2 from 1 nation
Medalists

At the 1900 Summer Olympics, a Basque pelota tournament was contested.

Only two teams entered - one from Spain and one from France - but the French team of Maurice Durquetty and Etchegaray withdrew on the afternoon of the single contest due to a disagreement about the rules. Therefore, the contest was scratched and the Spanish team were awarded first prize.^[1]^[2]

This is the only Olympics to date where pelota was an official sport, being revived at the 1924, 1968 and 1992 Games as a demonstration sport.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Spain (ESP) José de Amézola Francisco Villota	only one team entered^[3]	only one team entered

Medal table

Accurate as of the conclusion of the 1900 Olympics.^[4]


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Spain (ESP)	1	0	0	1
Totals (1 entries)		1	0	0	1

References

International Olympic Committee medal winners database
De Wael, Herman. Herman's Full Olympians: "Pelota 1900". Accessed 25 February 2006. Available electronically at [1] Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine.
Mallon, Bill (1998). The 1900 Olympic Games, Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. ISBN 0-7864-0378-0.

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