Gimnasia y Esgrima de Ituzaingó

Club Gimnasia y Esgrima de Ituzaingó, shortnamed GEI, is an Argentine sports club, located in the Ituzaingó district of Ituzaingó Partido in Greater Buenos Aires. Although other sports are also practised at the club, GEI is mostly known for its basketball and rugby union team, which currently plays in Segunda Superior, the fifth division of the URBA league system.

Not to be confused with Gimnasia y Esgrima de Buenos Aires.
Gimnasia y Esgrima (Ituzaingó)
Full nameClub Gimnasia y Esgrima de Ituzaingó
UnionURBA
Founded20 June 1925 (1925-06-20) [1]
LocationItuzaingo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ground(s)Ituzaingó
ChairmanLuis María Canosa [1]
League(s)URBA Superior
2018?
1st kit
2nd kit
Official website
www.clubgei.com.ar

The club has also a women's rugby team competing in "Torneo Femenino", organised by the same body.

Besides rugby union, GEI hosts the practice of many sports such as volleyball, fence, field hockey, swimming, tennis and basque pelota.

History

The club was founded on June 25, 1925 by a group of people met at the Aquiles Longoni's house. Jorge Passo was named as its first president. In 1936 three members donated a ticket for the Christmas Lottery (a traditional game of luck in Argentina) which finally won the prize. The money obtained was destinated to acquire the land where Gimnasia build its installations and facilities.

The GEI rugby team take part, by the first time, in 1960, in the 3rd. Division of the UBA championship. That time was composed by some senior people that migrates from the "Los Matreros Rugby" team and completed with young players promoted from the GEI junior divisions.

At the end of the 1970s a tennis championship was held at the club, where then famous Argentine players as Ivanna Madruga and Carlos Gattiker took part of the event.[2]

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References
  1. GEI on URBA website
  2. "History of the club on official website". Archived from the original on 2012-04-15. Retrieved 2012-01-05.
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