1924 Summer Olympics / Water polo

Water polo at the 1924 Olympics
information
venue	Paris
Competition venue	Piscine des Tourelles
Teams	13
Nations	13
Athletes	101 (101 )
date	July 13-20, 1924
decisions	1
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A water polo competition was held at the 8th Olympic Games in Paris in 1924 . The venue was the Piscine des Tourelles .

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	France	1	-	-	1
2	Belgium	-	1	-	1
3	United States	-	-	1	1
total		1	1	1	3

Medalist

rank	Medalist
Gold france	Albert Deborgies , Noël Delberghe , Robert Desmettre , Paul Dujardin , Albert Mayaud , Henri Padou , Georges Rigal
Silver Belgium	Gérard Blitz , Maurice Blitz , Joseph Cludts , Joseph De Combe , Pierre Dewin , Albert Durant , Georges Fleurix , Paul Gailly , Joseph Pletinckx , Jules Thiry , Jean-Pierre Vermetten
Bronze United States	Arthur Austin , Oliver Horn , Fred Lauer , George Mitchell , John Norton , Wally O'Connor , George Schroth , Herb Vollmer , Johnny Weissmuller

competition

The 13 teams involved played a tournament in the Bergvall system , with Belgium, Ireland and Spain 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

July 13th	11:45	Sweden	Italy	7-0
	16:30	Hungary	United Kingdom	7: 6
	17:00	France	United States	3: 1
July 14th	11:15	Netherlands	Switzerland	7-0
	17:00	Czechoslovakia	Greece	6: 1

Quarter finals

15th of July	10:30	Sweden	Spain	9-0
	11:15	Czechoslovakia	Irish Free State	4: 2
	16:15	Belgium	Hungary	7: 2
	17:00	France	Netherlands	6: 3

Semifinals

16th of July	16:30	Belgium	Czechoslovakia	5: 1
	17:30	France	Sweden	4: 2

final

17th July

16:30

France

Belgium

3-0

Play for second place

July 18th	16:30	Belgium	Sweden	4: 3
	17:00	United States	Netherlands	4: 2
July 19	16:15	Belgium	United States	2: 1
July 20th 1	17:30	Belgium	United States	2: 1

¹ replay after a protest by the American team.

Play for third place

July 18th	10:30	Hungary	Czechoslovakia	7-0
July 19	10:30	Sweden	Hungary	4: 1
20th of July	17:00	United States	Sweden	3: 2

source

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 , pp. 552-553.