1972 Summer Olympics / Water polo

At the XX. A water polo tournament took place at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich . The venues were the Olympic swimming pool and the Dante pool .

competition

The first six teams from the 1970 European Championship (Soviet Union, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Italy, Netherlands, Romania), the first four teams from the 1971 Pan-American Games (USA, Cuba, Mexico, Canada) and the 1970 Asian Games were qualified for the Olympic tournament (Japan) and Australia. Since the last Olympic champion, Yugoslavia, and the European Championship Seventh Federal Republic of Germany were automatically eligible to participate, Greece, Spain and Bulgaria moved up.

There were three preliminary groups; the three medal winners from 1968 (Yugoslavia, Soviet Union, Hungary) were seeded and their opponents were drawn by lot. The two best teams in each group advanced into the final round for places 1 to 6, the third and fourth teams played for places 7 to 12 (direct encounters in the preliminary round were included).

Medalist

space	country	player
1	URS	Anatoly Akimow , Alexei Barkalow , Alexander Dolguschin , Alexander Drewal , Vadim Guljajew , Alexander Kabanow , Nikolai Melnikow , Leonid Osipow , Alexander Schidlowski , Vladimir Schmudski , Vyacheslav Sobchenko
2	HUN	András Bodnár , Tibor Cservenyák , Tamás Faragó , István Görgényi , Zoltán Kásás , Ferenc Konrád , István Magas , Endre Molnár , Dénes Pócsik , László Sárosi , István Szívós
3	United States	Peter Asch , Steven Barnett , Bruce Bradley , Stanley Cole , James Ferguson , Eric Lindroth , John Parker , Gary Sheerer , James Sletton , Russell Webb , Barry Weitzenberg

Preliminary round

Group A

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	United States	5	0	0	31:18	+ 13	10
2.	Yugoslavia	4th	0	1	35:24	+ 11	8th
3.	Cuba	3	0	2	28:23	+ 5	6th
4th	Romania	2	0	3	38:26	+ 12	4th
5.	Mexico	1	0	4th	25:30	- 5th	2
6th	Canada	0	0	5	14:50	- 36	0

August 27	10:00	Yugoslavia	Canada	12: 4 (3: 1, 4: 1, 3: 1, 2: 1)
	16:00	Mexico	Cuba	4: 6 (1: 2, 0: 1, 1: 1, 2: 2)
	18:00	Romania	United States	3: 4 (0: 1, 1: 2, 1: 0, 1: 1)
August 28th	12:00	United States	Cuba	7: 6 (1: 1, 1: 0, 2: 1, 3: 4)
	15:00	Mexico	Canada	7: 3 (2: 1, 0: 1, 1: 0, 4: 1)
	20:00	Romania	Yugoslavia	7: 8 (3: 2, 2: 1, 2: 2, 0: 3)
29th August	11:00	United States	Canada	8: 1 (2: 0, 3: 0, 1: 0, 2: 1)
	13:00	Mexico	Yugoslavia	3: 5 (0: 1, 1: 1, 1: 3, 1: 0)
	16:00	Romania	Cuba	3: 4 (0: 2, 2: 1, 0: 1, 1: 0)
August 30th	10:00	Yugoslavia	Cuba	7: 5 (0: 2, 3: 1, 2: 1, 2: 1)
	12:00	Romania	Canada	16: 4 (1: 1, 6: 1, 5: 1, 4: 1)
	15:00	Mexico	United States	5: 7 (1: 1, 1: 4, 1: 1, 2: 1)
August 31	11:00	Cuba	Canada	7: 2 (2: 0, 2: 0, 1: 2, 2: 0)
	13:00	Yugoslavia	United States	3: 5 (0: 1, 1: 1, 1: 2, 1: 1)
	20:00	Romania	Mexico	9: 6 (2: 2, 3: 1, 2: 0, 2: 3)

Group B

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Hungary	3	1	0	22: 06	+ 16	7th
2.	BR Germany	2	2	0	21:13	+ 8	6th
3.	Netherlands	2	1	1	14:11	+ 3	5
4th	Australia	0	1	3	14:27	- 13	1
5.	Greece	0	0	3	13:27	- 14	1

August 27	10:00	Hungary	Netherlands	3: 0 (0: 0, 2: 0, 0: 0, 1: 0)
	16:00	Greece	Australia	7: 7 (3: 3, 2: 1, 1: 2, 1: 1)
August 28th	10:00	Australia	Netherlands	2: 4 (1: 0, 0: 0, 0: 1, 1: 3)
	17:00	BR Germany	Hungary	3: 3 (1: 0, 0: 1, 0: 2, 2: 0)
29th August	10:00	BR Germany	Netherlands	4: 4 (2: 1, 1: 0, 0: 1, 1: 2)
	14:00	Greece	Hungary	1: 6 (0: 3, 0: 0, 0: 2, 1: 1)
August 30th	14:00	Australia	Hungary	2:10 (0: 3, 1: 2, 0: 3, 1: 2)
	18:00	BR Germany	Greece	8: 3 (3: 1, 3: 1, 1: 1, 1: 0)
August 31	14:00	BR Germany	Australia	6: 3 (1: 1, 2: 0, 1: 0, 2: 2)
	14:00	Greece	Netherlands	2: 6 (1: 0, 0: 2, 1: 3, 0: 1)

Group C

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Soviet Union	4th	0	0	30: 09	+ 21	8th
2.	Italy	3	0	1	27:16	+ 11	6th
3.	Spain	2	0	2	19:22	- 3	4th
4th	Bulgaria	1	0	3	18:25	- 7th	2
5.	Japan	0	0	4th	14:36	- 22	0

August 27	10:00	Spain	Japan	6: 4 (2: 1, 1: 2, 1: 1, 2: 0)
	17:00	Italy	Soviet Union	1: 4 (1: 0, 0: 2, 0: 2, 0: 0)
August 28th	11:00	Soviet Union	Japan	11: 1 (1: 0, 4: 1, 3: 0, 3: 0)
	14:00	Italy	Bulgaria	8: 5 (3: 1, 3: 2, 2: 1, 0: 1)
29th August	12:00	Soviet Union	Bulgaria	7: 2 (2: 0, 2: 1, 2: 0, 1: 1)
	19:00	Italy	Spain	6: 2 (1: 0, 0: 1, 2: 1, 3: 0)
August 30th	11:00	Netherlands	Japan	7: 4 (3: 1, 0: 1, 2: 1, 2: 1)
	14:00	Spain	Soviet Union	5: 8 (0: 1, 1: 2, 2: 2, 2: 3)
August 31	10:00	Italy	Spain	12: 5 (4: 1, 3: 0, 1: 1, 4: 3)
	19:00	Spain	Bulgaria	6: 4 (0: 0, 2: 1, 2: 1, 2: 2)

Final round

Group I.

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Soviet Union	3	2	0	22:16	+ 6	8th
2.	Hungary	3	2	0	23:18	+ 5	8th
3.	United States	2	2	1	24:23	+ 1	6th
4th	BR Germany	0	3	2	15:18	- 3	3
5.	Yugoslavia	1	1	3	20:24	- 4th	3
6th	Italy	0	2	3	21:26	- 5th	2

September 1	14:00	Hungary	Italy	8: 7 (1: 0, 2: 1, 3: 4, 2: 2)
	3:30 p.m.	United States	BR Germany	4: 4 (3: 1, 1: 1, 0: 0, 0: 2)
	7:30 p.m.	Yugoslavia	Soviet Union	4: 5 (1: 2, 0: 2, 2: 0, 1: 1)
September 2nd	14:00	Yugoslavia	Italy	6: 6 (2: 2, 2: 1, 1: 1, 1: 2)
	3:30 p.m.	BR Germany	Soviet Union	2: 4 (1: 1, 1: 3, 0: 0, 0: 0)
	7:30 p.m.	United States	Hungary	3: 5 (0: 0, 1: 2, 2: 2, 0: 1)
September 3	14:00	BR Germany	Italy	2: 2 (1: 2, 0: 0, 0: 0, 1: 0)
	3:30 p.m.	Yugoslavia	Hungary	2: 4 (0: 1, 1: 1, 0: 1, 1: 1)
	7:30 p.m.	United States	Soviet Union	6: 6 (0: 1, 3: 1, 2: 2, 1: 2)
September 4th	14:00	Yugoslavia	BR Germany	5: 4 (3: 0, 0: 1, 1: 1, 1: 2)
	3:30 p.m.	United States	Italy	6: 5 (2: 1, 1: 1, 2: 1, 1: 2)
	7:30 p.m.	Hungary	Soviet Union	3: 3 (2: 1, 1: 1, 0: 1, 0: 0)

Group II

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
07th	Netherlands	4th	1	0	29:20	+ 9	9
08th.	Romania	3	1	1	24:19	+ 5	7th
09.	Cuba	3	1	1	24:23	+ 1	7th
10.	Spain	2	0	3	26:26	0	4th
11.	Bulgaria	0	2	3	17:23	- 6	2
12.	Australia	0	1	4th	18:27	- 9	1

September 1	14:00	Romania	Spain	7: 4 (1: 2, 2: 0, 0: 0, 4: 2)
	3:30 p.m.	Netherlands	Bulgaria	5: 2 (1: 0, 0: 1, 2: 1, 2: 0)
	7:30 p.m.	Cuba	Australia	6: 5 (1: 1, 3: 2, 1: 1, 1: 1)
September 2nd	14:00	Romania	Bulgaria	4: 3 (2: 2, 1: 0, 1: 0, 0: 1)
	3:30 p.m.	Australia	Spain	4: 8 (0: 1, 2: 1, 1: 3, 1: 3)
	7:30 p.m.	Cuba	Netherlands	6: 8 (2: 1, 2: 5, 0: 2, 2: 0)
September 3	14:00	Australia	Bulgaria	4: 4 (2: 2, 1: 0, 1: 1, 0: 1)
	3:30 p.m.	Romania	Netherlands	5: 5 (2: 2, 1: 2, 0: 1, 2-0)
	7:30 p.m.	Cuba	Spain	4: 3 (2: 1, 1: 2, 0: 0, 1: 0)
September 4th	14:00	Cuba	Bulgaria	4: 4 (0: 0, 2: 3, 1: 0, 1: 1)
	3:30 p.m.	Romania	Australia	5: 3 (1: 1, 2: 1, 1: 0, 1: 1)
	7:30 p.m.	Netherlands	Spain	7: 5 (0: 1, 3: 0, 2: 2, 2: 2)

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. 335–337.