1984 Summer Olympics / Water polo

At the XXIII. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles , a men's water polo tournament was held. The venue was the Raleigh Runnels Memorial Pool on the grounds of Pepperdine University in Malibu .

competition

In addition to the hosts (USA), the first five teams of the 1982 World Cup (Soviet Union, Hungary, Federal Republic of Germany, the Netherlands, Cuba) qualified directly for the Olympic tournament. The Soviet Union was also the 1980 Olympic champion and reigning world champion, which is why Yugoslavia came seventh in the World Cup. The remaining five starting places were determined from April 13 to 22, 1984 at a tournament in Rome ; Italy, Spain, Australia, Greece and China prevailed. After the Soviet Union, Hungary and Cuba decided to boycott the 1984 Olympic Games, the runners-up moved up to the qualifying tournaments (Canada, Brazil, Japan).

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 (direct encounters in the preliminary round also counted for the final result).

Medalist

space	country	player
1	YUG	Dragan Andrić , Milivoj Bebić , Perica Bukić , Veselin Ðuho , Milorad Krivokapić, Deni Lušić , Igor Milanović , Tomislav Paškvalin , Zoran Petrović , Andrija Popović , Zoran Roje , Goran Sukno , Božo Vuletić Trainer: Ratko Rudić
2	United States	Douglas Burke , Jody Campbell , Peter Campbell , Christopher Dorst , Gary Figueroa , Andrew McDonald , Kevin Robertson , Terry Schroeder , Timothy Shaw , John Siman , Jon Svendsen , Joseph Vargas , Craig Wilson
3	FRG	Armando Fernández , Roland Freund , Rainer Hoppe , Thomas Huber , Thomas Loebb , Werner Obschernikat , Rainer Osselmann , Frank Otto , Peter Röhle , Jürgen Schröder , Hagen Stamm , Dirk Theismann Trainer: Nico Firoiu

Preliminary round

Group A

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Yugoslavia	3	0	0	34:16	+ 18	6th
2.	Netherlands	2	0	1	25:26	- 1	4th
3.	People's Republic of China	1	0	2	21:27	- 6	2
4th	Canada	0	0	3	18:29	- 11	0

August 1st	08:30	Canada	Yugoslavia	4:13 (1: 3, 3: 3, 0: 2, 0: 5)
	08:30	China	Netherlands	8:10 (3: 2, 2: 2, 1: 2, 2: 4)
August 2nd	7:30 p.m.	China	Yugoslavia	7:12 (0: 3, 2: 3, 4: 3, 1: 3)
	7:30 p.m.	Netherlands	Canada	10: 9 (3: 5, 3: 1, 1: 2, 3: 1)
3rd August	13:30	China	Canada	6: 5 (2: 0, 1: 2, 1: 2, 2: 1)
	13:30	Netherlands	Yugoslavia	5: 9 (1: 4, 1: 2, 2: 1, 1: 2)

Group B

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	United States	3	0	0	32:17	+ 15	6th
2.	Spain	2	0	1	39:31	+ 8	4th
3.	Greece	0	1	2	23:33	- 10	1
4th	Brazil	0	1	2	25:38	- 13	1

August 1st	13:30	Brazil	Spain	12:19 (3: 7, 3: 3, 3: 4, 3: 5)
	13:30	United States	Greece	12: 5 (2: 0, 2: 1, 5: 2, 3: 2)
August 2nd	08:30	Greece	Spain	9:12 (1: 1, 2: 4, 4: 3, 2: 4)
	08:30	United States	Brazil	10: 4 (1: 1, 1: 1, 4: 2, 4: 0)
3rd August	7:30 p.m.	Greece	Brazil	9: 9 (4: 2, 2: 3, 0: 1, 3: 3)
	7:30 p.m.	United States	Spain	10: 8 (1: 1, 3: 2, 4: 2, 2: 3)

Group C

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	BR Germany	3	0	0	35:18	+ 17	6th
2.	Australia	1	1	1	27:20	+ 7	3
3.	Italy	1	1	1	27:23	+ 4	3
4th	Japan	0	0	3	15:43	- 28	1

August 1st	7:30 p.m.	Japan	Italy	5:15 (1: 4, 0: 5, 3: 2, 1: 4)
	7:30 p.m.	Australia	BR Germany	6:10 (0: 3, 1: 2, 3: 2, 2: 3)
August 2nd	13:30	Australia	Italy	8: 8 (2: 3, 2: 2, 2: 3, 2: 0)
	13:30	Japan	BR Germany	8:15 (2: 7, 2: 4, 2: 1, 2: 3)
3rd August	08:30	Japan	Australia	2:15 (0: 3, 0: 4, 2: 3, 0: 5)
	08:30	Italy	BR Germany	4:10 (0: 3, 2: 2, 1: 2, 1: 3)

Final round

Group D

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Yugoslavia	4th	1	0	47:33	+ 14	9
2.	United States	4th	1	0	43:34	+ 9	9
3.	BR Germany	2	1	2	49:34	+ 15	5
4th	Spain	1	2	2	42:46	- 4th	4th
5.	Australia	1	1	3	37:48	- 11	3
6th	Netherlands	0	0	5	25:48	- 23	0

6th of August	08:30	Yugoslavia	Australia	9: 6 (3: 1, 0: 2, 3: 2, 3: 1)
	13:30	United States	Netherlands	8: 7 (2: 2, 3: 2, 3: 2, 0: 1)
	7:30 p.m.	Spain	BR Germany	8: 8 (2: 1, 2: 2, 1: 4, 3: 1)
August 7th	08:30	Australia	United States	7:12 (2: 3, 1: 4, 1: 1, 3: 4)
	13:30	Yugoslavia	BR Germany	10: 9 (3: 4, 3: 1, 3: 1, 1: 3)
	7:30 p.m.	Spain	Netherlands	8: 4 (2: 1, 2: 1, 2: 2, 2: 0)
August 9	08:30	United States	BR Germany	8: 7 (1: 1, 1: 2, 4: 2, 2: 2)
	08:30	Australia	Netherlands	8: 7 (2: 1, 2: 3, 1: 1, 3: 2)
	7:30 p.m.	Spain	Yugoslavia	8:14 (4: 3, 0: 3, 4: 5, 0: 3)
August 10	08:30	BR Germany	Netherlands	15: 2 (5: 1, 4: 0, 2: 1, 4: 0)
	13:30	Australia	Spain	10:10 (3: 3, 3: 2, 1: 2, 3: 3)
	7:30 p.m.	United States	Yugoslavia	5: 5 (1: 1, 2: 1, 2: 1, 0: 2)

Group E

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
07th	Italy	4th	1	0	63:14	+ 49	9
08th.	Greece	3	2	0	52:41	+ 11	8th
09.	People's Republic of China	3	0	2	44:39	+ 5	6th
10.	Canada	1	1	3	40:48	- 8th	3
11.	Japan	1	0	4th	30:55	- 25	2
12.	Brazil	0	2	3	40:52	- 12	2

6th of August	08:30	China	Japan	10: 4 (3: 1, 3: 2, 3: 0, 1: 1)
	13:30	Canada	Greece	8:11 (2: 3, 2: 3, 1: 2, 3: 3)
	7:30 p.m.	Brazil	Italy	4:13 (1: 2, 2: 4, 0: 2, 1: 5)
August 7th	08:30	Japan	Greece	7:14 (1: 4, 2: 4, 1: 2, 3: 4)
	13:30	China	Italy	8:11 (3: 3, 2: 5, 1: 1, 2: 2)
	7:30 p.m.	Canada	Brazil	10:10 (2: 1, 2: 2, 4: 5, 2: 2)
August 9	08:30	China	Brazil	11: 9 (2: 1, 4: 3, 3: 2, 2: 3)
	08:30	Japan	Canada	5: 8 (1: 3, 1: 1, 2: 1, 1: 3)
	7:30 p.m.	Greece	Italy	8: 8 (1: 2, 3: 2, 3: 2, 1: 2)
August 10	08:30	Japan	Brazil	9: 8 (1: 1, 4: 0, 3: 2, 1: 5)
	13:30	Italy	Canada	16: 9 (4: 0, 3: 1, 3: 3, 6: 5)
	7:30 p.m.	Greece	China	10: 9 (2: 3, 4: 3, 1: 2, 3: 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. 1011-1013.