1968 Summer Olympics / Water polo

At the XIX. At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City , a water polo tournament was held. The venues were the Ciudad Universitaria swimming pool and the Alberca Olímpica Francisco Márquez swimming pool.

competition

The first six teams from the European Championship in 1966 (Soviet Union, GDR, Yugoslavia, Italy, Romania, Hungary) qualified for the Olympic tournament. Three other European teams qualified at a tournament from June 3 to 9, 1968 in Milan (Federal Republic of Germany, the Netherlands, Spain). Because of Romania's rejection, Greece moved up. The first three teams of the Pan American Games in 1967 (USA, Brazil, Mexico) were also qualified, with Mexico taking over Cuba for hosts. Also eligible to participate were Japan, winning the 1966 Asian Games, and the United Arab Republic, winning the 1965 Pan-African Games.

The first and second placed in both preliminary round groups advanced to the semi-finals, the third and fourth placed played for places 5 to 8, the fifth and sixth placed for places 9 to 12, all others for places 13 to 15.

Medalist

space	country	player
1	YUG	Ozren Bonačić , Dejan Dabović , Zdravko Hebel , Zoran Janković , Ronald Lopatni , Uroš Marović , Đorđe Perišić , Miroslav Poljak , Mirko Sandić , Karlo Stipanić , Ivo Trumbić
2	URS	Alexei Barkalow , Oleg Bowin , Alexander Dolguschin , Yuri Grigorowski , Boris Grischin , Vadim Guljajew , Leonid Ossipow , Alexander Schidlowski , Vladimir Semyonov , Vyacheslav Skok , Giwi Tschikwanaja
3	HUN	András Bodnár , Zoltán Dömötör , László Felkai , Ferenc Konrád , János Konrád , Mihály Mayer , Endre Molnár , Dénes Pócsik , László Sárosi , János Steinmetz , István Szívós

Preliminary round

Group A

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Hungary	6th	0	0	39:14	+ 25	12
2.	Soviet Union	5	0	1	43:18	+ 25	10
3.	United States	3	1	2	37:36	+ 1	7th
4th	Cuba	3	1	2	31:35	- 4th	7th
5.	BR Germany	2	0	4th	33:34	- 1	4th
6th	Spain	0	1	5	20:37	- 17th	1
7th	Brazil	0	1	5	22:51	- 29	1

October 14th	10:00	United States	Brazil	10: 5 (3: 1, 2: 1, 0: 1, 5: 2)
	15:00	Soviet Union	Cuba	11: 4 (0: 1, 4: 1, 3: 1, 4: 1)
15th October	10:00	BR Germany	Spain	5: 3 (3: 0, 1: 1, 0: 1, 1: 1)
	15:00	Cuba	Brazil	9: 2 (2: 0, 3: 1, 1: 0, 3: 1)
October, 16th	10:00	Hungary	BR Germany	6: 4 (1: 1, 3: 2, 0: 0, 2: 1)
	15:00	United States	Spain	10: 7 (2: 1, 3: 2, 3: 2, 2: 2)
October 17th	10:00	Soviet Union	BR Germany	6: 3 (0: 1, 2: 1, 3: 1, 1: 0)
	10:00	Cuba	United States	6: 6 (2: 3, 1: 1, 1: 0, 2: 2)
	3:30 p.m.	Hungary	Spain	7: 1 (1: 0, 3: 0, 2: 0, 1: 1)
October 19th	10:00	Soviet Union	Spain	5: 0 (2: 0, 1: 0, 0: 0, 2: 0)
	3:30 p.m.	Hungary	United States	5: 1 (2: 1, 0: 0, 1: 0, 2: 0)
	3:30 p.m.	BR Germany	Brazil	10: 5 (1: 2, 0: 1, 5: 1, 4: 1)
the 20th of October	09:00	Cuba	BR Germany	7: 6 (1: 0, 1: 1, 2: 2, 3: 3)
	3:30 p.m.	Spain	Brazil	6: 6 (1: 0, 1: 2, 3: 2, 1: 2)
	3:30 p.m.	Hungary	Soviet Union	6: 5 (2: 2, 2: 1, 1: 2, 1: 0)
October 21	10:00	Cuba	Spain	4: 3 (1: 1, 1: 1, 1: 1, 1: 0)
	10:00	Soviet Union	United States	8: 3 (1: 1, 2: 1, 2: 1, 3: 0)
	3:30 p.m.	Hungary	Brazil	8: 2 (0: 0, 3: 0, 3: 1, 2: 1)
October 22nd	09:00	Soviet Union	Brazil	8: 2 (1: 0, 3: 1, 3: 1, 1: 0)
	3:30 p.m.	United States	BR Germany	7: 5 (1: 1, 2: 2, 2: 1, 2: 1)
23rd October	09:00	Hungary	Cuba	7: 1 (1: 0, 1: 1, 2: 0, 3: 0)

Group B

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Italy	6th	1	0	48:21	+ 27	13
2.	Yugoslavia	5	1	1	65:18	+ 47	11
3.	GDR	5	1	1	66:22	+ 44	11
4th	Netherlands	4th	1	2	42:28	+ 14	9
5.	Japan	3	0	4th	26:57	- 31	6th
6th	Mexico	1	1	5	27:56	- 29	3
7th	Greece	1	0	6th	34:62	- 28	2
8th.	United Arab Republic	0	1	6th	21:65	- 44	1

October 14th	10:00	Netherlands	Greece	9: 5 (2: 0, 3: 2, 0: 1, 4: 2)
	15:00	Yugoslavia	VAR	13: 2 (2: 1, 1: 0, 5: 1, 5: 0)
	15:00	Italy	Japan	9: 2 (2: 0, 2: 2, 2: 0, 3: 0)
15th October	10:00	GDR	Mexico	12: 4 (3: 0, 2: 0, 3: 2, 4: 2)
	15:00	Japan	Greece	8: 7 (3: 1, 2: 1, 2: 3, 1: 2)
	15:00	Italy	VAR	10: 1 (2: 0, 1: 0, 4: 1, 3: 0)
October, 16th	10:00	GDR	Yugoslavia	4: 4 (0: 0, 1: 0, 1: 3, 2: 1)
	15:00	Netherlands	Mexico	8: 1 (1: 0, 3: 1, 3: 0, 1: 0)
	15:00	Greece	VAR	7: 6 (0: 2, 2: 3, 2: 1, 3: 0)
October 17th	10:00	Italy	GDR	5: 4 (1: 1, 1: 0, 1: 2, 2: 1)
	3:30 p.m.	Yugoslavia	Mexico	9: 0 (2: 0, 3: 0, 1: 0, 3: 0)
	3:30 p.m.	Netherlands	Japan	9: 1 (1: 0, 3: 0, 1: 1, 4: 0)
October 19th	10:00	GDR	Greece	11: 4 (3: 1, 0: 0, 5: 1, 3: 2)
	10:00	Japan	VAR	7: 4 (1: 1, 2: 1, 3: 0, 1: 2)
	3:30 p.m.	Italy	Mexico	10: 5 (3: 1, 2: 2, 4: 1, 1: 1)
	3:30 p.m.	Yugoslavia	Netherlands	7: 4 (1: 1, 2: 1, 3: 1, 1: 1)
the 20th of October	09:00	GDR	Japan	8: 0 (2: 0, 2: 0, 3: 0, 1: 0)
	09:00	Mexico	Greece	11: 8 (4: 3, 4: 1, 1: 2, 2: 2)
	3:30 p.m.	Italy	Yugoslavia	5: 4 (1: 1, 2: 2, 2: 0, 0: 1)
	3:30 p.m.	Netherlands	VAR	6: 3 (1: 1, 2: 0, 2: 1, 1: 1)
October 21	10:00	Japan	Mexico	6: 3 (1: 0, 3: 1, 0: 1, 2: 1)
	10:00	Yugoslavia	Greece	11: 1 (3: 0, 4: 0, 1: 1, 3: 0)
	3:30 p.m.	Italy	Netherlands	3: 3 (0: 1, 1: 1, 2: 1, 0: 0)
	3:30 p.m.	GDR	VAR	19: 2 (2: 0, 7: 0, 7: 1, 3: 1)
October 22nd	09:00	Mexico	VAR	3: 3 (1: 0, 1: 1, 0: 0, 1: 2)
	09:00	Italy	Greece	6: 2 (2: 1, 1: 0, 2: 0, 1: 1)
	3:30 p.m.	GDR	Netherlands	8: 3 (2: 0, 1: 0, 2: 2, 3: 1)
	3:30 p.m.	Yugoslavia	Japan	17: 2 (6: 1, 2: 1, 5: 0, 4: 0)

Placement round

13th to 15th place

October 24th

09:00

Brazil

VAR

5: 3 (0: 0, 1: 0, 1: 2, 3: 1)

9th to 12th place

October 24th	09:00	Spain	Japan	5: 0 (0: 0, 0: 0, 2: 0, 3: 0)
	09:00	BR Germany	Mexico	6: 3 (0: 0, 2: 1, 2: 2, 2: 0)

5th to 8th place

October 24th	09:00	GDR	Cuba	8: 2 (1: 0, 3: 1, 2: 0, 2: 1)
	15:00	United States	Netherlands	6: 3 (1: 0, 4: 2, 1: 0, 0: 1)

Game place 13

October 25

10:00

Brazil

Greece

5: 2 (0: 1, 1: 1, 3: 0, 1: 0)

Play 11th place

October 25

10:00

Mexico

Japan

5: 4 (1: 2, 2: 1, 1: 0, 1: 1)

Game place 9

October 25

10:00

Spain

BR Germany

7: 5 (1: 1, 2: 2, 3: 1, 1: 1)

Game place 7

October 25

3:30 p.m.

Netherlands

Cuba

8: 5 (4: 0, 2: 2, 2: 1, 0: 2)

Play 5th place

October 25

3:30 p.m.

United States

GDR

6: 4 (1: 1, 3: 2, 1: 1, 1: 0)

Final round

	Semifinals				final
	Soviet Union	8th
	Italy	5
					Yugoslavia	13
					Soviet Union	11 a.d.
					3rd place match
	Yugoslavia	8th			Hungary	9
	Hungary	6th			Italy	4th

Semifinals

October 24th	15:00	Soviet Union	Italy	8: 5 (3: 1, 1: 2, 4: 1, 0: 1)
	15:00	Yugoslavia	Hungary	8: 6 (1: 0, 1: 3, 2: 2, 4: 1)

3rd place

October 26th

10:00

Hungary

Italy

9: 4 (1: 1, 4: 1, 4: 1, 0: 1)

final

October 26th

17:00

Yugoslavia

Soviet Union

13:11 a.d. (2: 3, 3: 2, 3: 1, 3: 5, 2: 0, 0: 0)

source

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 , pp. 121–123.