1928 Summer Olympics / Water polo

With the IX. At the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam , a water polo competition was held. The venue was the Olympic Sports Park.

Medalist

space	country	player
1	GER	Max Amann , Karl Behre , Emil Benecke , Johannes Blank , Otto Cordes , Fritz Gunst , Erich Rademacher , Joachim Rademacher
2	HUN	István Barta , Olivér Halassy , Márton Homonnai , Sándor Ivády , Alajos Keserű , Ferenc Keserű , József Vértesy
3	FRA	Henri Cuvelier , Paul Dujardin , Henri Padou , Jules Keignaert , Émile Bulteel , Achille Tribouillet , Ernest Roget , Albert Thévenon , Albert Vandeplancke

competition

The twelve teams involved played a knockout tournament , with the USA and Germany having a bye in the first round. After the quarter-finals and the semi-finals, the Olympic champion was determined in the final. At the end there were three more games to determine the winner of the bronze medal. The semi-final losers had to assert themselves in another knockout round against the teams that had lost to the eventual Olympic champion.

Preliminary round

4th of August	Hungary	Argentina	14: 0 (9: 0)
	Czechoslovakia	United Kingdom	2: 4 (0: 1)
	France	Spain	4: 0 (2: 0)
5th of August	Netherlands	Switzerland	11: 0 (3: 0)
	Belgium	Irish Free State	11: 1 (6: 0)
	Malta	Luxembourg	3: 1 (1: 1)

Quarter finals

6th of August	France	Malta	16: 0 (8: 0)
	United Kingdom	Netherlands	5: 3 n.V. (2: 2)
	Belgium	German Empire	3: 5 a.d. (2: 0)
	Hungary	United States	4: 0 (2: 0)

Semifinals

August 7th	United Kingdom	German Empire	5: 8 (1: 5)
	Hungary	France	5: 3 (1: 1)

final

August 10

German Empire

Hungary

5: 2 n.V. (0: 2, 2: 2)

Play for 3rd place

August 11th	France	United Kingdom	8: 1 (4: 1)
	France	United States	2: 1 (1: 1)
	France	Argentina	8: 0 (4: 0)

source

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 , pp. 655-656.