1936 Summer Olympics / Water polo

Water polo at the 1936 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Berlin
Competition venue	Olympic swimming stadium
Teams	16
Nations	16
Athletes	142 (142 )
date	10-15 August 1936
decisions	8th
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Game scene

At the XI. A water polo tournament was held at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin . The venue was the Olympic swimming stadium .

Seven of the 16 national teams trained in the open-air swimming pool in Nauen , including silver medalists from Germany, Uruguay, Malta, Austria, Iceland, Holland and Switzerland. The Nauen and Spandau water polo players helped out as training opponents.

competition

The two best teams in each of the four preliminary round groups qualified for the intermediate round, while the third and fourth placed teams were eliminated. The two best teams of both groups in the intermediate round played for places 1 to 4, the others for places 5 to 8. Direct encounters in the preliminary and intermediate round counted for the following series.

Preliminary round

Group I.

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Belgium	2	1	0	6: 4	+ 2	5
2.	Netherlands	1	2	0	5: 4	+ 1	4th
3.	United States	1	0	2	7: 8	- 1	2
4th	Uruguay	0	1	2	2: 4	- 2nd	1

8th August	11:25	Belgium	Uruguay	1: 0 (0: 0)
	16:15	Netherlands	United States	3: 2 (3: 0)
August 9	11:30	United States	Uruguay	2: 1 (0: 1)
	17:50	Netherlands	Belgium	1: 1 (1: 1)
August 10	11:30	Netherlands	Uruguay	1: 1 (1: 0)
	12:10	Belgium	United States	4: 3 (3: 0)

Group II

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Hungary	3	0	0	26: 02	+ 24	6th
2.	Great Britain	2	0	1	13:15	- 2nd	4th
3.	Yugoslavia	1	0	2	11: 08	+ 3	2
4th	Malta	0	0	3	02:27	- 25	0

8th August	12:05	Great Britain	Malta	8: 2 (4: 0)
	16:55	Hungary	Yugoslavia	4: 1 (2: 0)
August 9	10:45	Hungary	Malta	12: 0 (8: 0)
	18:30	Great Britain	Yugoslavia	4: 3 (3: 3)
August 10	12:30	Yugoslavia	Malta	7: 0 (5: 0)
	17:00	Hungary	Great Britain	10: 1 (3: 0)

Group III

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	German Empire	3	0	0	27: 03	+ 24	6th
2.	France	2	0	1	12:10	+ 2	4th
3.	Czechoslovakia	1	0	2	07:12	- 5th	2
4th	Japan	0	0	3	04:25	- 21	0

8th August	17:35	German Empire	France	8: 1 (5: 0)
	18:15	Czechoslovakia	Japan	4: 3 (3: 0)
August 9	12:10	France	Japan	8: 0 (5: 0)
	15:50	German Empire	Czechoslovakia	6: 1 (4: 0)
August 10	13:30	German Empire	Japan	13: 1 (5: 1)
	17:40	France	Czechoslovakia	3: 2 (1: 1)

Group IV

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Austria	3	0	0	17: 01	+ 16	6th
2.	Sweden	2	0	1	18: 02	+ 16	4th
3.	Switzerland	1	0	2	07:16	- 9	2
4th	Iceland	0	0	3	1:24	- 23	0

8th August	12:45	Switzerland	Iceland	7: 1 (3: 1)
	13:30	Austria	Sweden	2: 1 (1: 1)
August 9	12:50	Austria	Switzerland	9: 0 (3: 0)
	17:10	Sweden	Iceland	11: 0 (7: 0)
August 10	18:20	Sweden	Switzerland	6: 0 (4: 0)
	19:00	Austria	Iceland	6: 0 (3: 0)

Intermediate round

Group I.

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Hungary	3	0	0	21: 01	+ 20	6th
2.	Belgium	1	1	1	07: 05	+ 2	3
3.	Netherlands	0	2	1	05:13	- 8th	2
4th	Great Britain	0	1	2	06:20	- 14	1

August 11th	11:15	Netherlands	Great Britain	4: 4 (3: 1)
	11:45	Hungary	Belgium	3: 0 (2: 0)
12. August	12:05	Belgium	Great Britain	6: 1 (3: 1)
	12:45	Hungary	Netherlands	8: 0 (3: 0)

Group II

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	German Empire	3	0	0	15: 03	+ 12	6th
2.	France	2	0	1	07:11	- 4th	4th
3.	Austria	1	0	2	05: 08	- 3	2
4th	Sweden	0	0	3	03: 08	- 5th	0

August 11th	16:25	German Empire	Austria	3: 1 (2: 0)
	17:05	France	Sweden	2: 1 (2: 0)
12. August	16:25	France	Austria	4: 2 (1: 2)
	17:05	German Empire	Sweden	4: 1 (2: 0)

Final round

1st to 4th place

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Hungary	2	1	0	10: 02	+ 8	5
2.	German Empire	2	1	0	14: 04	+ 10	5
3.	Belgium	1	0	2	04: 08	- 4th	2
4th	France	0	0	3	02:16	- 14	0

The goal difference (not the goal difference ) was decisive for the decision about first place .

August 14th	17:15	Belgium	France	3: 1 (1: 0)
	17:55	German Empire	Hungary	2: 2 (1: 1)
15th of August	17:15	Hungary	France	5: 0 (4: 0)
	17:55	German Empire	Belgium	4: 1 (3: 0)

5th to 8th place

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
5.	Netherlands	2	1	0	13:11	+ 2	5
6th	Austria	1	1	1	09: 09	0	3
7th	Sweden	1	0	2	08: 08	0	2
8th.	Great Britain	0	2	1	09:11	- 2nd	2

13 August	12:30	Netherlands	Austria	5: 4 (3: 2)
	13:10	Sweden	Great Britain	4: 2 (2: 1)
August 14th	11:45	Netherlands	Sweden	4: 3 (2: 2)
	12:25	Great Britain	Austria	3: 3 (2: 1)

Medalist

rank	Medalist
Gold Hungary	Mihály Bozsi , Jenő Brandi , György Bródy , Olivér Halassy , Kálmán Hazai , Márton Homonnay , György Kutasi , István Molnár , János Németh , Miklós Sárkány , Sándor Tarics
Silver German Empire	Bernhard Baier , Fritz Gunst , Josef Hauser , Alfred Kienzle , Paul Klingenburg , Heinrich Krug , Hans Schulze , Gustav Schürger , Helmuth Schwenn , Hans Schneider , Fritz Stolze
Bronze Belgium	Gérard Blitz , Albert Castelyns , Joseph de Combe , Pierre Coppieters , Henri Disy , Fernand Isselé , Edmond Michiels , Henri de Pauw , Henri Stoelen

source

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 , pp. 854-855.
• Historic Nauen Olympic Summer Games Nauen 1936