WThe practice of sports in Argentina is varied due to the population's diverse European origins and the mostly mild climate. Association football is the most popular discipline and other sports played both professionally and recreatively athletics, auto racing, basketball, boxing, cycling, field hockey, fishing, golf, handball, mountaineering, padel tennis, polo, roller hockey, rowing, rugby union, sailing, skiing, swimming, tennis, and volleyball. Argentine achievements can be found in team sports such as association football, basketball, field hockey and rugby union, and individual sports such as boxing, golf, tennis and rowing. Pato, the national sport, is not very popular.
WThe Argentina national beach handball team is the national team of Argentina. It is governed by the Argentinean Handball Confederation and takes part in international beach handball competitions.
WThe Argentina women's national beach handball team is the national team of Argentina. It is governed by the Confederacion Argentina de Handball and takes part in international beach handball competitions.
WCestoball is a sport created in Argentina in 1897. During the conference in Buenos Aires and Santa Rosa in 1986, the sport changed the name to Cestoball with the purpose of making the old Argentine sport called 'pelota al cesto' more dynamic and to bring its rules into closer harmony with korfball and netball.
WThe corrida de sortija is a traditional gaucho sport of the Rio de la Plata area of South America. This tradition is celebrated in the town festival of Sant Joan, in the Spanish island of Menorca and in the Italian island of Sardinia in the village of Oristano.
WJineteada gaucha or doma gaucha is a traditional sport in the gaucho culture of Argentina and the Cono Sur – Paraguay, Uruguay, and southern parts of Brazil and Chile. The objective is for the rider to stay on an untamed horse for a number of seconds. The specified time varies from 8 to 14 seconds, depending on the category.
WThe Ministry of Tourism and Sports of Argentina is a ministry of the national executive power that oversees and advises on Argentina's national tourism industry and the Argentine state's sports policy.
WPato, also called juego del pato, is a game played on horseback that combines elements from polo and basketball. It is the national sport of Argentina since 1953.