Press TV - The National Polo Championship is underway in Tehran to mark this great ancient game�s inscription by UNESCO as Iran�s intangible cultural heritage. Our correspondent reports.

Sputnik - The sporting game was included into the UNESCO list as Iran's intangible cultural heritage on December 7, 2017. A spokesman of the Equestrian Federation of Iran, Yashar Bigham, told Sputnik about the history of the game. Chovgan, an Iranian version ofmodern sport polo, was invented inancient Persia asa team game, Yashar Bigham,...

MNA UNESCO has recognized the team sport of polo, played on horseback, as Irans intangible cultural heritage during a session held in South Korea on December 7. After three years of extensive efforts, international negotiations, and close cooperation between Irans sports ministry and Cultural Heritage Organization, the team sport of polo (known ...

Tehran, April 3, IRNA Iran has sent a letter to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization for international registration of polo. Deputy for Irans Organization of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Mohammad Hassan Talebian said the organization has sent the file containing the feature and history of polo to UNESCO ...

KARAJ, Jan. 07 (MNA) The head of Alborz provincial Sports and Youth office has said a track of land with an area of 15 hectares would provide space for polo and equestrian sports. Reza Golmohammadi told Mehr News local correspondent that the Sports and Youth office had plans to promote these highly refreshing equine sports; with the abundance of ...

TEHRAN, Sep. 04 (MNA) Iran Polo Federation head has said Chogan (polo) is an Iranian sport and other countries claims on it has no basis in fact. Hamzeh Ilkhanizadeh said Irans history and culture is a solid evidence to confirm Chogan (polo) as a Persian sport, and other countries attempts to register it as their own will not alter the facts. In ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of the International Polo Federation Richard Thomas Khalil voiced regret over a recent decision by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to register Iran's traditional polo sport game in the name of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and called on UNESCO to reconsider its decision. "UNESCO committed a big mistake in ...

Many of us know of the sport polo, but very few of us know of its origins and its history, and how it has affected other sports. According to historians Polo originated in Persia. However many countries in Asia claim to be the origins of this sport, recently Azerbaijan requested to register polo with the United Nations as a purely indigenous sport ...

TEHRAN (AFP) It is probably the last thing you would expect to come across in the capital of the Islamic republic of Iran: a polo club, more commonly associated with the aristocracy. Nestling in the foothills of the Alborz mountains on the southeastern edge of heavily polluted Tehran, the Qasr-e Firouze Chowgan Club is surrounded by greenery and ...

Polo, an ancient Persian sport thats been pretty much forgotten until very lately, is getting some new life. Known as Chogan in Persian, the game was played in ancient Persia more than two thousand years ago. Sometimes called the Game of kings, Polo is a sport thats being revived in its birthplace Iran and not for kings this time around but for ordinary ...