Gimnasia y Esgrima de Ituzaingó
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| Full name | Club Gimnasia y Esgrima de Ituzaingó | ||
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| Union | URBA | ||
| Founded | 20 June 1925 [1] | ||
| Location | Ituzaingo, Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||
| Ground(s) | Ituzaingó | ||
| Chairman | Luis María Canosa [1] | ||
| League(s) | Torneo de la URBA Grupo II | ||
| 2016 | 7° of Reubicación G2 [2] | ||
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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 rugby union team, which currently plays in the Torneo de la URBA Grupo II, the second division of the Unión de Rugby de Buenos Aires league system.
Besides rugby union, GEI hosts the practice of many sports such as basketball, basque pelota, fence, field hockey, swimming, tennis and volleyball.
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.[3]