Gabriel Donoso

{{short description|Chilean polo player}} {{More citations needed|date=March 2020}} thumb|150px|Gabriel Donoso celebrating'''Gabriel Donoso Rosselot''' (28 June 1960 – 10 November 2006) was a Chilean polo player, considered one of Chile's best polo players of all time.<ref name="yahoo">[https://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ap--obit-donoso&prov=ap&type=lgns Gabriel Donoso, Chile's top polo player, dies in Argentina after fall from horse], yahoo.com {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110804224711/http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ap--obit-donoso |date=2011-08-04 }}</ref> He was born in Santiago, Chile.

Donoso led the Chilean side that won the Coronation Cup in 2004 defeating British. He won the player of the tournament award presented by Queen Elizabeth II.<ref name="yahoo"/>

Donoso suffered multiple injuries when he fell from a horse during a match in Pilar, Buenos Aires, Argentina.<ref name="yahoo"/> He died a few days later in a hospital in Buenos Aires of injuries related to the fall.<ref name="yahoo"/>

Donoso was previously married to and had two children (singer Amber Donoso and model Olivia Donoso<ref>{{cite web |title=Lady Garden x Topshop - Collection Launch |url=https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/lisa-butcher-poses-with-daughters-amber-donoso-and-olivia-news-photo/600650856?adppopup=true |website=Getty Images | date=8 September 2016 |access-date=8 September 2016 |quote=Lisa Butcher (C) poses with daughters Amber Donoso (L) and Olivia Donoso t the launch of the Lady Garden x Topshop collection in support of the Gynaecological Cancer Fund at Topshop Oxford Circus on September 8, 2016 in London, England.}}</ref>) with UK model Lisa Butcher.

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