2012 Summer Olympics / Water polo

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in the British capital London , two water polo competitions were held from July 29 to August 12 .

In the fourth draw, eight teams took part in the women's tournament for the third time in a row, and twelve as usual in the men's tournament.

The venue was the temporarily built Water Polo Arena in the Olympic Park .

Men's Olympic Tournament

There were two preliminary round groups with six teams each; each team played once against the other five. The four best placed in both groups played against each other in the quarterfinals. The quarter-final winners advanced to the semifinals, while the quarter-final losers played placement games. After all, the semi-final winners played for the gold medal, the semi-final losers for the bronze medal.

Medalist

space	country	athlete
1	CRO	Samir Barač , Miho Bošković , Ivan Buljubašić , Damir Burić , Andro Bušlje , Nikša Dobud , Maro Joković , Frano Karač , Petar Muslim , Paulo Obradović , Fran Paškvalin , Josip Pavić , Sandro Sukno Trainer: Ratko Rudić
2	ITA	Matteo Aicardi , Massimo Giacoppo , Maurizio Felugo , Danijel Premuš , Pietro Figlioli , Deni Fiorentini , Valentino Gallo , Alex Giorgetti , Niccolò Gitto , Giacomo Pastorino , Amaurys Perez , Christian Presciutti , Stefano Tempesti Trainer: Alessandro Campagna
3	SRB	Milan Aleksić , Filip Filipović , Živko Gočić , Dušan Mandić , Stefan Mitrović , Slobodan Nikić , Duško Pijetlović , Gojko Pijetlović , Andrija Prlainović , Nikola Rađen , Aleksa Šaponjić , Slobodan Soro , Vanja Udovičić Trainer: De .janovičić

Preliminary round

Group A

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Croatia	5	0	0	50:29	+21	10
2.	Italy	3	1	1	40:36	+ 04	7th
3.	Spain	3	0	2	52:42	+10	6th
4th	Australia	2	0	3	40:44	- 04th	4th
5.	Greece	1	1	3	41:43	- 02nd	3
6th	Kazakhstan	0	0	5	24:53	−29	0

Day	time	encounter	Result
29th of July	10:00	Greece - Croatia	6: 8 (2: 1, 1: 2, 1: 2, 2: 3)
	11:20	Kazakhstan - Spain	6:14 (2: 4, 1: 5, 1: 3, 2: 2)
	14:10	Italy - Australia	8: 5 (3: 0, 2: 2, 0: 1, 3: 2)
July 31	11:20	Croatia - Spain	8: 7 (2: 1, 3: 2, 2: 4, 1: 0)
	14:10	Australia - Kazakhstan	7: 4 (2: 1, 2: 0, 2: 2, 1: 1)
	3:30 p.m.	Greece - Italy	7: 7 (2: 1, 1: 2, 2: 3, 2: 1)
August 2nd	10:00	Spain - Australia	13: 9 (2: 1, 3: 3, 4: 1, 4: 4)
	11:20	Kazakhstan - Greece	4:11 (1: 2, 0: 4, 1: 3, 2: 2)
	19:40	Italy - Croatia	6:11 (3: 4, 1: 1, 1: 3, 1: 3)
4th of August	11:20	Croatia - Australia	11: 6 (2: 1, 3: 1, 3: 2, 3: 2)
	14:10	Greece - Spain	9:11 (3: 4, 2: 4, 2: 1, 2: 2)
	3:30 p.m.	Italy - Kazakhstan	9: 6 (4: 2, 4: 2, 1: 1, 0: 1)
6th of August	10:00	Kazakhstan - Croatia	4:12 (0: 4, 1: 1, 2: 4, 1: 3)
	11:20	Greece - Australia	8:13 (2: 3, 3: 5, 1: 3, 2: 2)
	19:40	Spain - Italy	7:10 (0: 2, 3: 4, 1: 2, 3: 2)

Group B

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Serbia	4th	1	0	69:38	+31	9
2.	Montenegro	3	1	1	54:41	+13	7th
3.	Hungary	3	0	2	65:52	+13	6th
4th	United States	3	0	2	43:44	- 01	6th
5.	Romania	1	0	4th	40:47	- 07th	2
6th	Great Britain	0	0	5	28:77	−49	0

Day	time	encounter	Result
29th of July	3:30 p.m.	Hungary - Serbia	10:14 (2: 2, 1: 3, 3: 5, 4: 4)
	18:20	Romania - Great Britain	13: 4 (2: 1, 4: 0, 3: 2, 4: 1)
	19:40	Montenegro - USA	7: 8 (1: 1, 1: 3, 2: 2, 3: 2)
July 31	10:00	Hungary - Montenegro	10:11 (2: 2, 3: 4, 3: 3, 2: 2)
	18:20	Serbia - Great Britain	21: 7 (3: 3, 7: 2, 6: 1, 5: 1)
	19:40	USA - Romania	10: 8 (3: 3, 1: 2, 3: 0, 3: 3)
August 2nd	14:10	Montenegro - Serbia	11:11 (1: 3, 2: 1, 5: 4, 3: 3)
	3:30 p.m.	Romania - Hungary	15:17 (4: 5, 5: 4, 2: 5, 4: 3)
	18:20	Great Britain - USA	7:13 (0: 5, 3: 3, 3: 2, 1: 3)
4th of August	10:00	Montenegro - Romania	12: 8 (3: 1, 2: 1, 3: 2, 4: 4)
	18:20	Hungary - Great Britain	17: 6 (6: 1, 5: 4, 4: 0, 2: 1)
	19:40	Serbia - USA	11: 6 (4: 1, 1: 2, 3: 1, 3: 2)
6th of August	14:10	Romania - Serbia	4:12 (0: 3, 1: 3, 0: 4, 3: 2)
	3:30 p.m.	Hungary - USA	11: 6 (1: 0, 5: 2, 4: 1, 1: 3)
	18:20	Great Britain - Montenegro	4:13 (1: 4, 2: 4, 1: 2, 0: 3)

Final round

	Quarter finals				Semifinals				final
	8th August
	Croatia	8th
					August 10
	United States	2
					Croatia	7th
	8th August
					Montenegro	5
	Spain	9
									12. August
	Montenegro	11
									Croatia	8th
	8th August
									Italy	6th
	Italy	11
					August 10
	Hungary	9
					Italy	9			Game for third place
	8th August
					Serbia	7th
	Australia	8th							Montenegro	11
	Serbia	11							Serbia	12
									12. August

Quarter finals

Day	time	encounter	Result
8th August	14:30	Spain - Montenegro	9:11 (4: 4, 1: 3, 1: 3, 3: 1)
	15:50	Australia - Serbia	8:11 (3: 2, 4: 2, 1: 2, 0: 5)
	18:40	Italy - Hungary	11: 9 (2: 2, 3: 2, 3: 1, 3: 4)
	20:00	Croatia - USA	8: 2 (2: 0, 3: 0, 2: 2, 1: 0)

Semifinals

Day	time	encounter	Result
August 10	15:40	Croatia - Montenegro	7: 5 (3: 1, 2: 0, 2: 2, 0: 2)
	19:50	Italy - Serbia	9: 7 (4: 2, 2: 2, 2: 1, 1: 2)

Placement games 5–8

Day	time	encounter	Result
August 10	14:20	USA - Spain	7: 8 (1: 3, 1: 2, 2: 1, 3: 2)
	18:30	Hungary - Australia	10: 9 (4: 2, 2: 4, 1: 0, 3: 3)

Game for 7th place

Day	time	encounter	Result
12. August	10:20	USA - Australia	9:10 (1: 3, 2: 2, 1: 3, 5: 2)

Play for 5th place

Day	time	encounter	Result
12. August	11:40	Spain - Hungary	8:14 (1: 4, 2: 3, 1: 5, 4: 2)

3rd place match

Day	time	encounter	Result
12. August	14:30	Montenegro - Serbia	11:12 (2: 3, 3: 1, 5: 4, 1: 4)

final

Day	time	encounter	Result
12. August	15:50	Croatia - Italy	8: 6 (1: 2, 2: 0, 2: 1, 3: 3)

Olympic tournament of women

There were two preliminary round groups of four teams each, with each team playing once against the other three. The preliminary round only served to determine the quarter-final pairings. The winners of the quarter-finals advanced to the semi-finals, the losers played placement games. After all, the semi-final winners played for the gold medal, the semi-final losers for the bronze medal.

Medalists

space	country	Sportswomen
1	United States	Tumua Anae , Betsey Armstrong , Kami Craig , Annika Dries , Courtney Mathewson , Heather Petri , Kelly Rulon , Melissa Seidemann , Jessica Steffens , Maggie Steffens , Brenda Villa , Lauren Wenger , Elsie Windes
2	ESP	Marta Bach , Andrea Blas , Ana Copado , Anna Espar , Laura Ester , Maica García , Laura López , Ona Meseguer , Lorena Miranda , Matilde Ortiz , Jennifer Pareja , Maria Peña , Roser Tarragó
3	OUT	Gemma Beadsworth , Victoria Brown , Kate Gynther , Bronwen Knox , Holly Lincoln-Smith , Alicia McCormack , Jane Moran , Glencora Ralph , Mel Rippon , Sophie Smith , Ash Southern , Rowie Webster , Nicola Zagame

Preliminary round

Group A

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Spain	2	1	0	33:26	+7	5
2.	United States	2	1	0	30:28	+2	5
3.	Hungary	1	0	2	35:37	−2	2
4th	People's Republic of China	0	0	3	22:29	−7	0

Day	time	encounter	Result
30th July	14:10	Spain - China	11: 6 (2: 2, 4: 2, 4: 2, 1: 0)
	19:40	Hungary - USA	13:14 (3: 4, 4: 4, 2: 3, 4: 3)
August 1st	14:10	Hungary - China	11:10 (1: 3, 4: 4, 4: 3, 2: 0)
	18:20	Spain - USA	9: 9 (3: 1, 2: 2, 1: 4, 3: 2)
3rd August	14:10	Spain - Hungary	13:11 (4: 3, 3: 2, 3: 2, 3: 4)
	19:40	China - USA	6: 7 (1: 0, 2: 2, 0: 3, 3: 2)

Group B

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Australia	3	0	0	37:18	+18	6th
2.	Russia	2	0	1	22:21	+ 01	4th
3.	Italy	1	0	2	22:22	± 00	2
4th	Great Britain	0	0	3	14:33	−19	0

Day	time	encounter	Result
30th July	3:30 p.m.	Italy - Australia	8:10 (1: 2, 3: 2, 0: 4, 4: 2)
	18:20	Great Britain - Russia	6: 7 (2: 3, 3: 2, 0: 1, 1: 1)
August 1st	3:30 p.m.	Italy - Russia	4: 7 (0: 1, 1: 1, 1: 4, 2: 1)
	19:40	Great Britain - Australia	3:16 (1: 3, 1: 3, 1: 5, 0: 5)
3rd August	3:30 p.m.	Russia - Australia	8:11 (4: 6, 1: 2, 1: 0, 2: 3)
	18:20	Great Britain - Italy	5:10 (2: 4, 1: 2, 1: 2, 1: 2)

Final round

	Quarter finals				Semifinals				final
	5th of August
	Hungary	11
					August 7th
	Russia	10
					Hungary	09
	5th of August
					Spain	10
	Spain	9
									August 9
	Great Britain	7th
									Spain	5
	5th of August
									United States	8th
	United States	9
					August 7th
	Italy	6th
					United States	11			Game for third place
	5th of August
					Australia	09
	People's Republic of China	18th							Hungary	11
	Australia	20th							Australia	13
									August 9

Quarter finals

Day	time	encounter	Result
5th of August	14:50	Hungary - Russia	11:10 (3: 3, 4: 2, 1: 3, 3: 2)
	16:10	China - Australia	18:20 after throwing a penalty (5: 5, 3: 3, 4: 2, 2: 4, 1: 2, 1: 0, 2: 4)
	19:00	USA - Italy	9: 6 (3: 3, 3: 0, 0: 1, 3: 2)
	20:20	Spain - Great Britain	9: 7 (3: 2, 3: 0, 2: 3, 1: 2)

Semifinals

Day	time	encounter	Result
August 7th	3:30 p.m.	USA - Australia	11: 9 a.d. (3: 3, 3: 2, 1: 1, 2: 3, 2: 0, 0: 0)
	19:40	Hungary - Spain	9:10 (1: 2, 4: 5, 2: 2, 2: 1)

Placement games 5–8

Day	time	encounter	Result
August 7th	14:10	Italy - China	10:14 (2: 5, 2: 5, 2: 2, 4: 2)
	18:20	Russia - Great Britain	11: 9 (3: 3, 1: 2, 4: 2, 3: 2)

Game for 7th place

Day	time	encounter	Result
August 9	14:30	Italy - Great Britain	11: 7 (2: 3, 4: 0, 3: 2, 2: 2)

Play for 5th place

Day	time	encounter	Result
August 9	15:50	China - Russia	16:15 a.d. (3: 3, 5: 6, 3: 2, 3: 3, 2: 1)

3rd place match

Day	time	encounter	Result
August 9	18:40	Australia - Hungary	13:11 a.d. (2: 1, 5: 3, 3: 4, 1: 3, 2: 0)

final

Day	time	encounter	Result
August 9	20:00	USA - Spain	8: 5 (1: 1, 4: 1, 2: 0, 1: 3)

Medal table

Medal table
space	country	G	S.	B.	total
1	Croatia	1	0	0	1
	United States	1	0	0	1
3	Italy	0	1	0	1
	Spain	0	1	0	1
5	Australia	0	0	1	1
	Serbia	0	0	1	1
Total		2	2	2	6th

qualification

Qualification criteria

260 athletes will take part in the competitions, 104 women (eight teams with 13 players each) and 156 men (twelve teams with 13 players each). In the men's category, the medal winners of the world championships from July 16 to 31, 2011 in Shanghai as well as the winners of the FINA World League 2011 qualified. The winners of the five continental championships or qualifying tournaments each qualified for women and men. Great Britain was automatically qualified to host and is considered a European qualifier. In April 2012 there was also an international qualification tournament for women and men, in which the three best teams qualified for the Olympic tournament. If a country had already qualified for the Olympic tournament and subsequently achieved another placement that allowed participation, the next team that had not yet qualified moved up.

Overview of all qualification competitions:

Men:

• FINA World League 2011 in Florence , June 21-26, 2011 
• World Championship 2011 in Shanghai , July 16 to 31, 2011 
• Pan American Games in Guadalajara , October 23-29, 2011 
• Asian qualifying tournament in Chiba , January 23-29, 2012 
• Edmonton International Qualifier , April 1-8, 2012 

Women:

• Pan American Games in Guadalajara , October 23-28, 2011 
• Asian qualifying tournament in Chiba , January 23-29, 2012 
• International qualification tournament in Trieste , April 15-22, 2012 

In the men's field, Serbia was the first qualified team to win the World League. Italy, Croatia and Hungary secured their participation in the world championships. The US team qualified for the Pan American Games for women and men, Kazakhstan for the men for the Asian qualifying tournament and China for the women. The African associations have decided not to host a qualifying tournament. The quota space that became free was then allocated at the final qualifying tournaments, so that four teams could qualify here.

Qualifying tournaments

Men

Group A
rank	team	Tordiff.	Points
1.	Montenegro	59:34	10
2.	Romania	43:44	6th
3.	Greece	53:34	6th
4th	North Macedonia	29:45	4th
5.	Germany	41:43	4th
6th	Netherlands	28:53	0

1st of May	Montenegro	Netherlands	12: 6
	Greece	Macedonia	12: 2
	Germany	Romania	10: 9
2.May	Netherlands	Macedonia	6: 9
	Romania	Greece	10: 9
	Montenegro	Germany	11: 7
May 3rd	Macedonia	Romania	6: 9
	Germany	Netherlands	11: 6
	Greece	Montenegro	7: 8
May 4th	Netherlands	Romania	5: 7
	Montenegro	Macedonia	14: 6
	Germany	Greece	9:11
5th of May	Greece	Netherlands	14: 5
	Macedonia	Germany	6: 4
	Montenegro	Romania	14: 8

Group B
rank	team	Tordiff.	Points
1.	Spain	61:21	8th
2.	Canada	45:28	6th
3.	Brazil	43:47	3
4th	Turkey	27:55	2
5.	Argentina	27:52	1

1st of May	Spain	Brazil	17: 7
	Turkey	Argentina	9: 9
2.May	Argentina	Spain	6:14
	Canada	Brazil	12: 9
May 3rd	Brazil	Argentina	16: 7
	Turkey	Canada	5:14
May 4th	Turkey	Spain	2:21
	Canada	Argentina	13: 5
5th of May	Brazil	Turkey	11:11
	Spain	Canada	9: 6

Quarterfinals May 6th

Semi-finals May 7th

Final May 8th

Montenegro

19th

Turkey

6th

Montenegro

13

Greece

12

Greece

10

Canada

6th

Montenegro

12

Spain

9

Romania

19th

Brazil

8th

Romania

6th

3rd place match

Spain

11

Macedonia

7th

Greece

14th

Spain

11

Romania

10

Women

Group A
rank	team	Tordiff.	Points
1.	Hungary	32:32	4th
2.	Russia	39:37	4th
3.	Spain	30:31	2
4th	Italy	33:34	2

17th April	Russia	Hungary	12:13
	Italy	Spain	9:10
April 18	Russia	Spain	12:11
	Italy	Hungary	11: 9
April 19th	Hungary	Spain	10: 9
	Russia	Italy	15:13

Group B
rank	team	Tordiff.	Points
1.	Netherlands	62:28	7th
2.	Greece	55:27	6th
3.	Canada	39:29	5
4th	Kazakhstan	26:53	1
5.	Brazil	19:64	1

April 15th	Canada	Kazakhstan	15: 4
	Brazil	Netherlands	4:23
April 16	Netherlands	Canada	11:11
	Greece	Brazil	23: 4
17th April	Kazakhstan	Netherlands	7:15
	Canada	Greece	2:10
April 18	Greece	Kazakhstan	16: 8
	Brazil	Canada	4:11
April 19th	Kazakhstan	Brazil	7: 7
	Greece	Netherlands	6:13

Quarterfinals April 20th

Semi-finals April 21

Final April 22nd

Hungary

18th

Kazakhstan

5

Hungary

8th

Spain

10

Spain

9

Greece

7th

Spain

9

Italy

5

Russia

7th

Canada

6th

Russia

13

3rd place match

Italy

14th

Italy

7th

Hungary

13

Netherlands

6th

Russia

18th

Qualified teams

Qualified teams
Men		Women
World league	Serbia	-
World Cup 2011	Italy	-
World Cup 2011	Croatia	-
World Cup 2011	Hungary	-
Host / Europe	Great Britain	Host / Europe	Great Britain
Africa	-	Africa	-
America	United States	America	United States
Asia	Kazakhstan	Asia	People's Republic of China
Oceania	Australia	Oceania	Australia
Qualifying tournament	Montenegro	Qualifying tournament	Spain
Qualifying tournament	Spain	Qualifying tournament	Italy
Qualifying tournament	Greece	Qualifying tournament	Russia
Qualifying tournament	Romania	Qualifying tournament	Hungary

Web links

Commons : 2012 Summer Olympics / Water polo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Results: Men , Women (English)
• Schedule: Men , Women (English)
• Group division (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ QUALIFICATION SYSTEM - GAMES OF THE XXX OLYMPIAD FINA. (PDF; 253 kB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 3, 2012 ; accessed on July 7, 2011 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ London 2012 - Water Polo Team. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 10, 2012 ; accessed on May 9, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.