1988 Summer Olympics / Water polo

At the XXVII. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul , a water polo competition was held. The venue was the Jamsil swimming pool.

competition

The 1984 Olympic champions (Yugoslavia) and the hosts (South Korea) were directly qualified for the Olympic tournament, as were the first five teams of the 1986 World Cup (Italy, USSR, USA, Spain, FR Germany). Yugoslavia was also the reigning world champion, which is why the Germans came sixth in the World Cup. The remaining five starting places were determined from May 13 to 21, 1988 at a tournament in Perth ; Hungary, Australia, China, France and Greece prevailed.

The two best teams from both preliminary round groups advanced to the semi-finals. The third and fourth ranked teams played a round for places 5 to 8, the fifth and sixth ranked teams a round for places 9 to 12 (direct encounters in the preliminary round also counted for the final result).

Medalist

space	country	player
1	YUG	Dragan Andric , Mislav Bezmalinović , Perica Bukić , Veselin Duho , Igor Gočanin , Deni Lušić , Igor Milanovic , Tomislav Paškvalin , Renco Posinković , Goran Rađenović , Dubravko Šimenc , Aleksandar Šoštar , Mirko Vičević Coach: Ratko Rudić
2	United States	James Bergeson , Gregory Boyer , Jeff Campbell , Jody Campbell , Peter Campbell , Christopher Duplanty , Michael Evans , Douglas Kimbell , Craig Klass , Alan Mouchawar , Kevin Robertson , Terry Schroeder , Craig Wilson
3	URS	Dmitri Apanasenko , Viktor Berendjuga , Mikhail Giorgadze , Yevgeny Grishin , Mikhail Ivanov , Alexander Kolotow , Sergei Kotenko , Sergei Markotsch , Nurlan Mendygaliev , Georgi Mzhweniyeradze , Sergei Naumow , Yevgeny Sharanov , Nikolai Smirnov

Preliminary round

Group A

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	BR Germany	5	0	0	60:37	+ 23	10
2.	Soviet Union	3	1	1	63:30	+ 33	7th
3.	Italy	3	1	1	48:33	+ 15	7th
4th	Australia	2	0	3	40:39	+ 1	4th
5.	France	1	0	4th	43:54	- 11	2
6th	South Korea	0	0	5	14:75	- 61	0

21st September	14:00	Italy	USSR	9: 9 (2: 3, 1: 2, 3: 2, 3: 2)
	15:15	France	South Korea	16: 5 (3: 0, 4: 1, 3: 1, 6: 3)
	16:30	Australia	BR Germany	11:13 (4: 4, 1: 2, 3: 3, 3: 4)
September 22	14:00	South Korea	Italy	1:11 (0: 5, 1: 2, 0: 1, 0: 3)
	15:15	France	BR Germany	9:10 (2: 2, 3: 3, 1: 2, 3: 3)
	16:30	Australia	USSR	4:11 (3: 3, 0: 1, 0: 2, 1: 5)
September 23rd	14:00	Korea	BR Germany	2:18 (0: 5, 1: 3, 0: 6, 1: 4)
	15:15	Australia	Italy	5: 7 (1: 1, 0: 3, 2: 2, 2: 1)
	16:30	France	USSR	4:18 (2: 5, 0: 4, 1: 5, 1: 4)
September 26th	09:00	Italy	BR Germany	7:10 (2: 4, 3: 2, 1: 2, 1: 2)
	10:15	South Korea	USSR	4:17 (1: 6, 1: 3, 1: 2, 1: 6)
	11:30	Australia	France	7: 6 (3: 1, 1: 1, 2: 0, 1: 4)
September 27th	09:00	France	Italy	8:14 (3: 3, 2: 3, 1: 3, 2: 5)
	10:15	Australia	South Korea	13: 2 (3: 0, 2: 0, 3: 1, 5: 1)
	11:30	USSR	BR Germany	8: 9 (4: 2, 0: 3, 1: 4, 3: 0)

Group B

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	United States	4th	0	1	56:40	+ 14	8th
2.	Yugoslavia	4th	0	1	60:38	+ 22	8th
3.	Spain	3	1	1	48:38	+ 10	7th
4th	Hungary	2	1	2	50:43	+ 7	5
5.	Greece	1	0	4th	45:66	- 21	2
6th	People's Republic of China	0	0	5	34:68	- 34	0

21st September	09:00	Hungary	Greece	12:10 (5: 1, 2: 3, 3: 2, 2: 4)
	10:15	United States	Yugoslavia	7: 6 (1: 1, 1: 1, 2: 2, 3: 2)
	11:30	China	Spain	6:13 (1: 4, 1: 3, 2: 2, 2: 4)
September 22	09:00	Greece	China	10: 7 (3: 1, 1: 2, 4: 3, 2: 1)
	10:15	United States	Spain	7: 9 (1: 3, 1: 0, 2: 3, 3: 3)
	11:30	Hungary	Yugoslavia	9:10 (1: 3, 3: 1, 1: 4, 4: 2)
September 23rd	09:00	United States	China	14: 7 (4: 3, 4: 3, 3: 1, 3: 0)
	10:15	Greece	Yugoslavia	7:17 (1: 6, 0: 3, 3: 5, 3: 3)
	11:30	Hungary	Spain	6: 6 (0: 3, 3: 1, 2: 1, 1: 1)
September 26th	14:00	United States	Greece	18: 9 (5: 3, 5: 1, 4: 4, 4: 1)
	15:15	Hungary	China	14: 7 (4: 2, 3: 0, 4: 2, 3: 3)
	16:30	Spain	Yugoslavia	8:10 (0: 4, 3: 2, 2: 2, 3: 2)
September 27th	14:00	Greece	Spain	9:12 (1: 3, 3: 3, 4: 2, 1: 4)
	15:15	United States	Hungary	10: 9 (2: 1, 1: 2, 2: 3, 5: 3)
	16:30	China	Yugoslavia	7:17 (1: 5, 3: 1, 1: 6, 2: 5)

Placement round

Group D

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
5.	Hungary	1	2	0	28:20	+ 8	4th
6th	Spain	1	1	1	24:23	+ 1	3
7th	Italy	1	1	1	25:25	0	3
8th.	Australia	1	0	2	18:27	- 9	2

30. September	11:30	Italy	Hungary	9: 9 (2: 1, 1: 2, 2: 4, 4: 2)
	14:00	Australia	Spain	8: 7 (2: 0, 1: 3, 3: 0, 2: 4)
October 1	11:30	Australia	Hungary	5:13 (2: 2, 1: 3, 1: 3, 1: 5)
	14:00	Italy	Spain	9:11 (3: 2, 4: 2, 1: 4, 1: 3)

Group E

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
09.	Greece	3	0	0	37:21	+ 16	6th
10.	France	2	0	1	34:19	+ 15	4th
11.	People's Republic of China	1	0	2	25:28	- 3	2
12.	South Korea	0	0	3	19:47	- 28	0

30. September	09:00	France	China	11: 4 (4: 0, 3: 2, 1: 2, 3: 0)
	10:15	South Korea	Greece	7:17 (1: 5, 1: 3, 2: 5, 3: 4)
October 1	09:00	South Korea	China	7:14 (2: 2, 2: 4, 1: 2, 2: 6)
	10:15	France	Greece	7:10 (3: 4, 2: 4, 0: 1, 2: 1)

Final round

	Semifinals				final
	BR Germany	10
	Yugoslavia	14th
					Yugoslavia	9
					United States	7th
					3rd place match
	Soviet Union	7th			BR Germany	13
	United States	8th			Soviet Union	14th

Semifinals

30. September	15:15	BR Germany	Yugoslavia	10:14 (2: 3, 3: 3, 2: 3, 3: 5)
	16:30	USSR	United States	7: 8 (1: 1, 2: 3, 2: 3, 2: 1)

3rd place match

October 1

20:15

BR Germany

USSR

13:14 (1: 5, 6: 2, 4: 4, 2: 3)

final

October 1

21:30

Yugoslavia

United States

9: 7 n.V. (1: 2, 1: 2, 3: 1, 1: 1, 3: 1)

source

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. Die Chronik IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 , pp. 176-178.