Official Event Site
September 01, 2010 to September 05, 2010 - Italy
Canoe Polo is a spectacular team game, which combines elements of water polo, basketball and canoeing! The game is played by two teams of five players each, trying to score goals with a waterpolo ball in a net suspended above the water at each end of a "playing pitch", which is often a swimming pool. The fast, exciting game is played in two halves of ten minutes each, and produces fast, robust action, where a wide range of skills, including the Eskimo roll, are regularly used.
The paddlers use short, manoeuvrable polo-boat kayaks, paddled with two-bladed paddles and wear helmets, facemasks and lifejackets for safety and protection.
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The Idroscalo, a very sought-after competition venue for water sport, is located in East Milan.
It is easily accessible from the motorways, for instance, it is half way along the East Milan bypass road and the well-signed junction to get there is the same one for the nearby Linate airport.
The water basin measures 850,000 m², it is surrounded by a park enriched by numerous sport facilities and the entire complex measures 1,600,000 m². It was realised thanks to the Provincial Administration of Milan, the owner, which started the work in 1928 and inaugurated it on the 28th October 1930.
Soon abandoned as hydroplane harbour, it was mainly utilised for sport activities, so they built the tribune on the North-West shore and 12 hangars with changing rooms and toilets in the
athletes area, plus the large central building on the North shore, which is now used as a gym.
The first big sport events were the “Littoriali del Remo” in april 1934 and the rowing and speedboat racing European Championships in 1938.
