Editing Chile (section)

===Sports===
{{main|Sport in Chile}}
[[File:Inicio del partido Chile - Uruguay, Copa América Chile 2015.jpg|left|thumb|[[Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos]]]]

Chile's most popular sport is [[association football]]. Chile has appeared in nine FIFA World Cups which includes hosting the [[1962 FIFA World Cup]] where the [[Chile national football team|national football team]] finished third. Other results achieved by the national football team include two [[Copa América]] titles (2015 and [[Copa América Centenario|2016]]), two runners-up positions, one silver and two bronze medals at the [[Pan American Games]], a bronze medal at the [[2000 Summer Olympics]] and two third places finishes in the FIFA under-17 and under-20 youth tournaments. The top league in the [[Chilean football league system]] is the [[Chilean Primera División]], which is named by the [[International Federation of Football History & Statistics|IFFHS]] as the ninth strongest national football league in the world.<ref name=iffhs>{{cite web |url=http://www.iffhs.de/?b6e28fa3002f71504e52d17f7370eff3702bb1c2bb11 |title=The strongest National League in the World 2011 |work=IFFHS |access-date=18 April 2012 |archive-date=5 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105214658/https://iffhs.de/?b6e28fa3002f71504e52d17f7370eff3702bb1c2bb11 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The main football clubs are [[Colo-Colo]], [[Club Universidad de Chile|Universidad de Chile]] and [[Club Deportivo Universidad Católica|Universidad Católica]]. Colo-Colo is the country's most successful football club, having both the most national and international championships, including the coveted [[Copa Libertadores]] South American club tournament. Universidad de Chile was the last international champion ([[Copa Sudamericana]] 2011).

Tennis is Chile's most successful sport. Its [[Chile Davis Cup team|national team]] won the [[World Team Cup]] clay tournament twice (2003 & 2004), and played the [[Davis Cup]] final against Italy in 1976. At the [[2004 Summer Olympics]] the country captured gold and bronze in men's singles and gold in men's doubles ([[Nicolás Massú]] obtained two gold medals). [[Marcelo Ríos]] became the first Latin American man to reach the number one spot in the [[List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players|ATP singles rankings]] in 1998. [[Anita Lizana]] won the [[US Open (tennis)|US Open]] in 1937, becoming the first woman from Latin America to win a [[Grand Slam (tennis)|Grand Slam]] tournament. [[Luis Ayala (tennis)|Luis Ayala]] was twice a runner-up at the French Open and both Ríos and [[Fernando González]] reached the Australian Open men's singles finals. González also won a silver medal in singles at the [[2008 Summer Olympics]] in Beijing.

At the Summer Olympic Games Chile boasts a total of two gold medals (tennis), seven silver medals (athletics, [[Equestrian at the Summer Olympics|equestrian]], [[boxing]], shooting and tennis) and four bronze medals (tennis, boxing and football). In 2012, Chile won its first Paralympic Games medal (gold in Athletics).

[[File:15 Abril 2015, Ministro Álvaro Elizalde junto a la Presidenta Michelle Bachelet reciben al Equipo Campeón Mundial de Polo en La Moneda. (17160926755).jpg|thumb|The Chilean national polo team with President [[Michelle Bachelet]] and the trophy of the [[2015 World Polo Championship]]]]

[[Chilean rodeo|Rodeo]] is the country's [[national sport]] and is practiced in the more rural areas of the nation. A sport similar to [[hockey]] called ''[[Palin (game)|chueca]]'' was played by the Mapuche people during the Spanish conquest. [[Skiing]] and [[snowboarding]] are practiced at ski centers located in the Central Andes, and in southern ski centers near to cities as Osorno, Puerto Varas, Temuco and Punta Arenas. [[Surfing in Chile|Surfing]] is popular at some coastal towns. [[Polo]] is professionally practiced within Chile, with the country achieving top prize in the 2008 and 2015 [[World Polo Championship]].

[[Basketball]] is a popular sport in which Chile earned a bronze medal in the first men's [[FIBA World Championship]] held in 1950 and won a second bronze medal when Chile hosted the [[1959 FIBA World Championship]]. Chile hosted the first [[FIBA World Championship for Women]] in 1953 finishing the tournament with the silver medal. [[San Pedro de Atacama]] is host to the annual "Atacama Crossing", a six-stage, {{convert|250|km|adj=on|sp=us}} footrace which annually attracts about 150 competitors from 35 countries. The [[Dakar Rally]] [[Off-road racing|off-road automobile race]] has been held in both Chile and [[Argentina]] since 2009.