1912 Summer Olympics / Water polo

Water polo at the 5th Summer Olympics
information
Attendees:	45 athletes
Date:	July 7th - July 16th
Venue:	Djurgårdsbrunnsviken
Competition location:	Stockholm
Decisions:	1
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1912 Summer Olympics (water polo medal table)
space	team				Total
01	Great Britain	1	-	-	1
02	Sweden	-	1	-	1
03	Belgium	-	-	1	1

A water polo competition was held at the V Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912 .

Men

space	country	athlete
1	GBR	Charles Sydney Smith , George Cornet , George Wilkinson , Charles Bugbee , Arthur Edwin Hill , Paul Radmilovic , Isaac Bentham
2	SWE	Thorsten Kumfeldt , Harald Julin , Max Gumpel , Robert Andersson , Pontus Hansson , Vilhelm Andersson , Erik Bergqvist
3	BEL	Albert Durant , Herman Donners , Victor Boin , Herman Meyboom , Joseph Pletincx , Oscar Grégoire , Félicien Courbet , Jean Hoffman , Pierre Nijs

Games played

Main tournament

1 round	7th of July	Great Britain - Belgium	7: 5 a.d.
	8th of July	Sweden - France	7: 2
	July 9	Austria - Hungary	5: 4
2nd round	July 11th	Great Britain - Sweden	6: 3
3rd round	July 11th	Great Britain - Austria	8-0

The British had thus prevailed against the other two first round winners and were determined as Olympic champions. Another tournament for all other teams was scheduled for second place.

Tournament for 2nd place

1 round	10th of July	Belgium - Hungary	6: 5
	July 11th	Belgium - France	4: 1
2nd round	July 14th	Sweden - Austria	8: 1
	15th of July	Belgium - Austria	5: 4
3rd round	16th of July	Sweden - Belgium	4: 2

With the result of the last game, silver and bronze were awarded to Sweden and Belgium respectively.