1976 Summer Olympics / Water polo

At the XXI. At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal , a water polo competition was held. The venue was the swimming pool at the Center Claude-Robillard .

competition

In addition to host Canada, the first six teams of the 1975 World Cup (USSR, Hungary, Italy, Cuba, Romania, Federal Republic of Germany) were directly qualified for the Olympic tournament. Since the Soviet team was automatically entitled to participate as defending champions, the seventh-placed Netherlands was allowed to move up. There was also a continental representative from Asia, North America and Australia (Iran, Mexico, Australia). The last starting place went to Yugoslavia, which won a qualifying tournament in West Berlin from April 21 to 24, 1976 .

The two best teams of the three groups of four in the preliminary round then played in the final round for places 1 to 6, the third and fourth teams for places 7 to 12.

Medalist

space	country	player
1	HUN	Gábor Csapó , Tibor Cservenyák , Tamás Faragó , György Gerendás , György Horkai , György Kenéz , Ferenc Konrád , Endre Molnár , László Sárosi , Attila Sudár , István Szívós
2	ITA	Alberto Alberani , Silvio Baracchini , Luigi Castagnola , Vincenzo D'Angelo , Marcello Del Duca , Gianni De Magistris , Riccardo De Magistris , Alessandro Ghibellini , Sante Marsili , Umberto Panerai , Roldano Simeoni
3	NED	Alex Boegschoten , Ton Buunk , Andy Hoepleman , Nico Landeweerd , Evert Kroon , Hans Smits , Gijze Stroboer , Rik Toonen , Jan Evert Veer , Hans van Zeeland , Piet de Zwarte

Preliminary round

Group A

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Italy	2	1	0	26:13	+ 13	5
2.	Yugoslavia	1	2	0	25:10	+ 15	4th
3.	Cuba	1	1	1	22:15	+ 7	3
4th	Iran	0	0	3	04:39	- 35	0

July 18th	Italy	Iran	12: 1 (4: 0, 2: 0, 2: 0, 4: 1)
	Yugoslavia	Cuba	4: 4 (1: 0, 0: 2, 2: 1, 1: 1)
July 19	Italy	Cuba	8: 6 (1: 1, 2: 1, 2: 1, 3: 3)
	Yugoslavia	Iran	15: 0 (3: 0, 4: 0, 4: 0, 4: 0)
20th of July	Cuba	Iran	12: 3 (2: 1, 4: 0, 3: 1, 3: 1)
	Yugoslavia	Italy	6: 6 (2: 0, 2: 3, 2: 2, 0: 1)

Group B

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Netherlands	3	0	0	14:10	+ 4	6th
2.	Romania	1	1	1	18:14	+ 4	3
3.	Soviet Union	1	1	1	14:12	+ 2	3
4th	Mexico	0	0	3	10:20	- 10	0

July 18th	Romania	USSR	5: 5 (1: 1, 2: 2, 2: 2, 0: 0)
	Netherlands	Mexico	5: 3 (1: 1, 1: 1, 2: 0, 1: 1)
July 19	Romania	Mexico	8: 3 (4: 1, 1: 1, 2: 1, 1: 0)
	Netherlands	USSR	3: 2 (1: 0, 1: 0, 1: 1, 0: 1)
20th of July	Mexico	USSR	4: 7 (1: 2, 1: 1, 1: 1, 1: 3)
	Netherlands	Romania	6: 5 (1: 2, 1: 2, 2: 0, 2: 1)

Group C

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Hungary	3	0	0	15: 08	+ 7	6th
2.	BR Germany	2	0	1	09: 07	+ 2	4th
3.	Canada	1	0	2	08:14	- 6	2
4th	Australia	0	0	3	14:17	- 3	0

July 18th	Hungary	Australia	7: 6 (2: 1, 2: 3, 3: 1, 1: 0)
	BR Germany	Canada	5: 0 (0: 0, 2: 0, 1: 0, 2: 0)
July 19	Hungary	Canada	4: 2 2: 0, 1: 0, 1: 1, 0: 1)
	BR Germany	Australia	4: 3 (2: 0, 1: 1, 1: 1, 0: 1)
20th of July	Canada	Australia	6: 5 (2: 1, 3: 0, 0: 1, 1: 3)
	BR Germany	Hungary	0: 4 (0: 2, 0: 1, 0: 1, 0: 0)

Final round

Group D

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Hungary	4th	1	0	30:24	+ 6	9
2.	Italy	2	2	1	21:20	+ 1	6th
3.	Netherlands	2	2	1	18:17	+ 1	6th
4th	Romania	1	3	1	26:25	+ 1	5
5.	Yugoslavia	0	3	2	21:24	- 3	3
6th	BR Germany	0	1	4th	15:21	- 6	1

22nd of July	Italy	Hungary	5: 6 (1: 1, 2: 1, 1: 3, 1: 1)
	Romania	Yugoslavia	5: 5 (1: 1, 1: 2, 2: 1, 1: 1)
	Netherlands	BR Germany	3: 2 (0: 0, 2: 1, 1: 0, 0: 1)
July 23	Italy	Yugoslavia	5: 4 (1: 1, 1: 2, 1: 0, 2: 1)
	Netherlands	Romania	4: 4 (1: 1, 2: 1, 1: 1, 0: 1)
	Hungary	BR Germany	5: 3 (2: 1, 0: 1, 2: 0, 1: 1)
24th July	BR Germany	Yugoslavia	4: 4 (1: 1, 1: 1, 0: 1, 2: 1)
	Netherlands	Hungary	3: 5 (0: 2, 0: 1, 1: 2, 2: 0)
	Italy	Romania	4: 4 (1: 0, 3: 1, 0: 2, 0: 1)
July 26th	Romania	Hungary	8: 9 (1: 3, 2: 2, 3: 2, 2: 2)
	Italy	BR Germany	4: 3 (0: 1, 1: 1, 1: 1, 2: 0)
	Netherlands	Yugoslavia	5: 3 (1: 1, 1: 1, 2: 0, 1: 1)
July 27th	Yugoslavia	Hungary	5: 5 (0: 1, 1: 0, 2: 2, 2: 2)
	BR Germany	Romania	3: 5 (0: 1, 0: 2, 3: 1, 0: 1)
	Netherlands	Italy	3: 3 (1: 1, 0: 1, 0: 0, 2: 1)

Group E

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
07th	Cuba	4th	1	0	34:16	+ 18	9
08th.	Soviet Union	3	1	1	33:16	+ 17	7th
09.	Canada	2	2	1	27:21	+ 6	6th
10.	Mexico	1	3	1	26:19	+ 7	5
11.	Australia	1	1	3	22:25	- 3	3
12.	Iran	0	0	5	08:53	- 45	0

22nd of July	Cuba	USSR	5: 0 (forfait)
	Canada	Australia	4: 3 (2: 0, 0: 0, 1: 2, 1: 1)
	Mexico	Iran	11: 3 (3: 0, 2: 1, 1: 1, 5: 1)
July 23	Canada	Cuba	5: 7 (2: 2, 1: 1, 1: 3, 1: 1)
	Mexico	USSR	3: 4 (0: 2, 1: 1, 1: 1, 1: 0)
	Australia	Iran	8: 2 (4: 0, 3: 0, 1: 1, 0: 1)
24th July	Canada	Iran	8: 1 (4: 0, 1: 1, 2: 0, 1: 0)
	Mexico	Cuba	4: 4 (3: 2, 1: 0, 0: 0, 0: 2)
	Australia	USSR	2: 7 (0: 2, 0: 2, 0: 1, 2: 2)
July 26th	Canada	USSR	6: 6 (2: 0, 2: 2, 0: 2, 2: 2)
	Cuba	Iran	10: 2 (2: 0, 3: 0, 5: 1, 0: 1)
	Mexico	Australia	4: 4 (0: 2, 2: 1, 2: 1, 0: 0)
July 27th	USSR	Iran	16: 0 (4: 0, 3: 0, 4: 0, 5: 0)
	Cuba	Australia	5: 8 (1: 3, 0: 2, 2: 1, 2: 2)
	Canada	Mexico	4: 4 (0: 0, 2: 0, 0: 3, 2: 1)

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. 554-555.