1920 Summer Olympics / Water polo

A water polo competition was held at the VII Olympic Games in Antwerp in 1920 . The venue was the Olympic water sports stadium.

Medalist

space	country	player
1	GBR	Charles Bugbee , William Dean , Christopher Jones , William Peacock , Noel Purcell , Paul Radmilovic , Charles Sydney Smith
2	BEL	René Bauwens , Gérard Blitz , Maurice Blitz , Pierre Dewin , Albert Durant , Paul Gailly , Pierre Nijs , Joseph Pletincx
3	SWE	Erik Andersson , Robert Andersson , Vilhelm Andersson , Nils Backlund , Harald Julin , Erik Bergqvist , Max Gumpel , Pontus Hanson , Theodor Naumann

competition

The twelve teams involved played a tournament in the Bergvall system , with the USA, Greece, Great Britain and the Netherlands having a bye in the first round. After the quarter-finals and the semi-finals, the Olympic champion was determined in the final. In another knockout round, the teams that had lost to the Olympic champion played for the silver medal. The loser of this round then stepped in the bronze medal match on the teams that had lost to the losing finalist.

Preliminary round

22./23. August	Spain	Italy	1: 1
	Sweden	Czechoslovakia	12: 0
	France	Brazil	1: 1
	Belgium	Switzerland	11: 0
	Spain	Italy	forfait 1
	Brazil	France	5: 1 2

¹ replay, Italy did not play
² replay

Quarter finals

August 24th	United States	Greece	7-0
	United Kingdom	Spain	9-0
	Sweden	Brazil	7: 3
	Belgium	Netherlands	2: 1

Semifinals

26th of August	United Kingdom	United States	7: 2
	Belgium	Sweden	5: 3

final

August 27

United Kingdom

Belgium

3: 2

Play for 2nd place

28/29 August	United States	Spain	5-0
	Belgium	United States	7: 2

Play for 3rd place

28/29 August	Sweden	Netherlands	9: 1
	Sweden	United States	5: 2

source

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 , pp. 454–455.