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Claire Janet Tomlinson (born 1944) has become one of the most successful women polo players and most influential polo coaches today. She was the highest-rated female polo player, and coached the English national team she once captained.〔cite book|title=Born to be king|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Vsg2pwhmP8gC&pg=PT62&lpg=PT62&dq=claire+tomlinson+polo&source=bl&ots=EjmhW5Ai3A&sig=R2__frxwIoGOt6h3zR-dxUWnzcg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=J4P9UZ-qL83z0gWX-4GgDQ&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAzgU#v=onepage&q=claire%20tomlinson%20polo&f=false|accessdate=3 August 2013}}〕 ==Biography== Claire Tomlinson is the daughter of Ethel and Arthur Lucas, founder of Wolmers Park Polo Club who was instrumental in the revival of polo in England after the Second World War.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.willowfoundation.org.uk/News/LatestNews?newsid=225 )〕 She went from Wycombe Abbey to take A levels at Millfield, and while there she was selected for the British junior fencing team. Going on to study agricultural economis at Somerville College, Oxford, it was not long before she was awarded a squash blue and a fencing half-blue and got short-listed for the Olympic fencing team. When she was told that the Oxford University Polo team was short of players, her father's approval was obtained, and she took up polo seriously.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.horseytalk.net/HorseyInterviews/Claire_LukeTomlinson.html )〕 Her participation in the Varsity Match 1964 as the very first female player was a milestone in the history of the match. Cautiously the club had entered her as Mr Lucas. In 1966, she became the very first female captain of OUPC.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.oxforduniversitypoloclub.com/index.php/history )〕 In her final year at university, she was rated at nought-goals. Her first job for a British company brought her to Buenos Aires, Argentina. There she accompanied her brother John, who was a 6-goal player who won the Queen’s Cup and Gold Cup in 1967 to buy horses and got to know Jorge Marín Moreno with whom she started playing. Her standard of polo improved to such an extent that on her return to England she formed the Los Locos (the Mad Ones) polo team with a cavalry officer (Simon Tomlinson, whom she later married). She became one of polo’s few true masters of the number one position and the first woman in the world to rise to five goals in 1986.〔Terry Allen: The Pimm's Book of Polo. London: Stanley Paul 1989, p.90.〕 She swept away the rule forbidding women in British high-goal and became the first to compete on equal terms with men at the top tier.〔Horace A. Laffaye: The Evolution of Polo. McFarland & Company: London 2012, p. 207.〕 She was the first woman to win the County Cup (1972) and the Queen's Cup (1979) having fought for her participation after the Hurlingham Polo Association repeatedly denied her entering the high-goal tournaments. And all this despite the fact that her handicap was higher than of many other male participants in the Queen's and Gold Cup.〔Horace A. Laffaye: The Evolution of Polo. McFarland & Company: London 2012, pp. 238, 239.〕 She still holds the women’s high goal handicap record today.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.horsehero.com/20987 )〕 Claire is the Chairman of the Beaufort Polo Club which she and Simon Tomlinson reestablished in 1989.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/s-matriarch-Britain-s-famous-polo-dynasty-Claire/story-12753078-detail/story.html#axzz2auIGZt2d )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.hpa-polo.co.uk/club_regions/club_details_default.asp?club=beaufort )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.hurlinghammedia.com/club_details.php?id=4 )〕 In 1993 with Hugh Dawnay she instigated and set up a coaching system for the H.P.A. from scratch, which has had a profound effect on how players are taught. She also taught the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry at Beaufort.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://polo.epubxp.com/i/31965/65 )〕 Claire has also been successfully breeding polo ponies since the 1970s and is pro-active with the modern breeding programme presently in operation, which includes Beaufort Embryo Transfer.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.polostudbook.org/pony-breeding/breeding-articles )〕 She is one of six official H.P.A. team coaches, and regularly coaches British squads at F.I.P. championships as well as holding sessions for the H.P.A. Junior Development Squad at Down Farm.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.beaufortembryotransfer.com/the-team.html )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Claire Tomlinson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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