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Korculanski Plivacki Klub - KPK Korcula - Korcula's Swimming and Water polo ClubTown of Korcula has long water polo tradition which dates back from late 1920's. That was the time when Korcula's students, reading their degrees at universities in larger places ( Split, Zagreb, Dubrovnik...) discovered water polo as fashionable new game and brought it with them to Korcula to play during their home stay at summer vacations. Quickly, water polo become popular in Korcula and become prestige sport of privileged Korcula's middle classes.
Soon, this new game was accepte very soon by kids from all Korcula's backgrounds. At the time, there was no swimming pool in Korcula, so water polo was played at locations that were most suitable for players as well as spectators. One of these locations were Korcula's West Pier where provisional water polo pool would be formed by means of row of boats full of spectators from one side and piers' edges with stools and seats at the other side of the piers. That was how perfect structure of water polo pool would be created for every of these special occasions. Another location that was used for matches, especially a the days of strong western winds Maestral or Tremuntana, was Korcula's East Pier (see bellow right photo ) which was suitable as that pier is sheltered from western winds.
Read more about Korcula's Water polo and Swimming tradition on following pages (pages will come in next few days):
See how Korcula's youngsters are still playing waterpolo in near vicinity of Old Town walls - click ! + Link to KPK Waterpolo Blog
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