Sport in Chile
Overview of sports traditions and activities in Chile / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sports in Chile are performed at both amateur and professional levels, practiced both at home and abroad to develop and improve, or simply represent the country. Football is the most popular sport in Chile, and is played for a range of reasons.[3] However, the country's most successful sport is tennis.[4] In rural areas, Chilean rodeo is the most practiced sport in Chile, which is the national sport.[5] Chile has achieved great international success in other sports, and there have been important figures, however, such exploits are not known to the general population because they are not sports that have been popular throughout the country.
The country has experience as host of major global sporting events such as the 1959 Basketball World Cup, 1962 FIFA World Cup, 1992 and 2015 World Polo Championships and multisport events: 1986 and 2014 South American Games and the 2023 Pan American Games.