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Canoe polo
Suasana pertandingan pada kompetisi tingkat Eropa tahun 2013
Induk organisasiInternational Canoe Federation
Keberadaan
OlimpiadeNo
Pekan Olahraga Dunia2005 – kini

Canoe polo, also known as kayak polo, is one of the competitive disciplines of kayaking, known simply as "polo" by its aficionados.

Each team has five players on the pitch (and up to three substitutes), who compete to score in their opponent's goal, which is suspended two metres above the water. The ball can be thrown by hand, or flicked with the paddle to pass between players and shoot at the goal. Pitches can be set up in swimming pools or any stretch of flat water.

Kayak polo combines boating and ball handling skills with a contact team game, where tactics and positional play are as important as the speed and fitness of the individual athletes. The game requires excellent teamwork and promotes both general canoeing skills and a range of other techniques unique to the sport. In International Canoe Federation nomenclature used in some European countries, chiefly the United Kingdom, the term canoe can refer to a kayak too.[1]

  1. ^  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Canoe". Encyclopædia Britannica (edisi ke-11). Cambridge University Press.