1992 Summer Olympics / Water polo

At the XXV. At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona , a water polo competition was held. The venue was the Montjuïc swimming pool in the south of the Olympic Park on Montjuïc .

competition

The six best-placed teams in the 1991 World Cup were directly qualified for the Olympic tournament (Yugoslavia, Spain, Hungary, USA, Italy, Germany). Spain was the host, which is why the seventh-placed Soviet Union moved up (represented by the United Team the following year). The remaining five starting places were awarded from May 2 to May 10, 1992 at a qualifying tournament in Calgary ; Cuba, Australia, Greece, France and the Netherlands qualified.

After the UN Security Council decided on sanctions against Yugoslavia on May 30, 1992 due to its involvement in the Bosnian War , the Yugoslav world championship team was expelled two days before the start of the tournament and replaced by Czechoslovakia (sixth place in the qualifying tournament).

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	ITA	Francesco Attolico , Alessandro Bovo , Paolo Caldarella , Alessandro Campagna , Marco D'Altrui , Massimiliano Ferretti , Mario Fiorillo , Ferdinando Gandolfi , Amedeo Pomilio , Francesco Porzio , Giuseppe Porzio , Carlo Silipo
2	ESP	Daniel Ballart , Manuel Estiarte , Pedro Francisco García , Salvador Gómez , Marco Antonio González , Rubén Michavila , Miguel Ángel Oca , Sergi Pedrerol , Josep Picó , Jesús Miguel Rollán , Ricardo Sánchez , Jordi Sans , Manuel Silvestre
3	EUN	Dmitri Apanasenko , Andrei Belofastow , Dmitri Gorshkov , Vladimir Karabutov , Alexander Kolotow , Nikolai Koslow , Andriy Kovalenko , Sergei Markotsch , Sergei Naumow , Alexander Ogorodnikow , Yevgeny Sharanov , Alexander Tchigir , Alexei Vdovin

Preliminary round

Group A

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	United team	5	0	0	50:32	+ 18	10
2.	United States	4th	0	1	40:24	+ 16	8th
3.	Australia	2	1	2	44:41	+ 3	5
4th	Germany	2	0	3	38:41	- 3	4th
5.	France	1	1	3	38:42	- 4th	3
6th	Czechoslovakia	0	0	5	33:63	- 30	0

August 1st	09:30	United team	Czechoslovakia	10: 6 (2: 1, 1: 1, 4: 3, 3: 1)
	10:45	Australia	United States	4: 8 (1: 1, 1: 2, 1: 3, 1: 2)
	18:30	Germany	France	7: 7 (2: 2, 2: 2, 3: 2, 0: 1)
August 2nd	09:30	Czechoslovakia	United States	3: 9 (2: 2, 0: 2, 0: 3, 1: 2)
	12:00	France	Australia	5: 9 (1: 2, 0: 2, 2: 2, 2: 3)
	19:45	United team	Germany	11: 7 (4: 3, 3: 2, 2: 0, 2: 2)
3rd August	09:30	United States	France	11: 7 (2: 0, 3: 3, 3: 1, 3: 3)
	12:00	Germany	Czechoslovakia	15: 9 (2: 2, 4: 1, 6: 3, 3: 3)
	19:45	Australia	United team	9:12 (2: 3, 3: 4, 2: 1, 2: 4)
5th of August	09:30	Czechoslovakia	France	6:14 (1: 4, 1: 5, 2: 2, 2: 3)
	12:00	United team	United States	8: 5 (0: 2, 3: 2, 2: 0, 3: 1)
	17:30	Germany	Australia	7: 7 (1: 2, 3: 2, 1: 0, 2: 3)
6th of August	09:30	Australia	Czechoslovakia	15: 9 (5: 2, 2: 2, 3: 1, 5: 4)
	12:00	United States	Germany	7: 2 (1: 0, 2: 0, 3: 2, 1: 0)
	18:45	United team	France	9: 5 (3: 2, 1: 0, 2: 1, 3: 2)

Group B

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Spain	4th	1	0	52:36	+ 16	9
2.	Italy	3	2	0	41:34	+ 7	8th
3.	Hungary	2	2	1	49:46	+ 3	6th
4th	Cuba	2	0	3	50:53	- 3	4th
5.	Netherlands	0	2	3	36:46	- 10	2
6th	Greece	0	1	4th	32:45	- 13	1

August 1st	12:00	Hungary	Italy	7: 7 (1: 2, 2: 1, 2: 2, 2: 2)
	19:45	Greece	Cuba	9:10 (2: 4, 3: 0, 3: 3, 1: 3)
	21:00	Spain	Netherlands	12: 6 (5: 3, 3: 2, 1: 1, 3: 0)
August 2nd	10:45	Netherlands	Italy	4: 6 (0: 2, 2: 1, 0: 1, 2: 2)
	18:30	Cuba	Hungary	11:12 (3: 4, 3: 3, 4: 4, 1: 1)
	21:00	Spain	Greece	11: 6 (1: 3, 2: 1, 4: 1, 4: 1)
3rd August	10:45	Italy	Cuba	11: 8 (2: 3, 2: 2, 4: 2, 3: 1)
	18:30	Greece	Netherlands	4: 4 (0: 0, 1: 0, 2: 2, 1: 2)
	21:00	Hungary	Spain	5: 8 (0: 2, 1: 1, 3: 4, 1: 1)
5th of August	10:45	Netherlands	Cuba	9:11 (5: 3, 1: 4, 0: 2, 3: 2)
	18:45	Greece	Hungary	7:12 (3: 5, 1: 2, 1: 1, 2: 4)
	21:00	Spain	Italy	9: 9 (3: 2, 1: 2, 2: 2, 3: 3)
6th of August	10:45	Hungary	Netherlands	13:13 (5: 3, 3: 4, 1: 3, 4: 3)
	17:30	Italy	Greece	8: 6 (2: 2, 1: 1, 3: 2, 2: 1)
	21:00	Spain	Cuba	12:10 (2: 3, 4: 3, 4: 2, 2: 2)

Placement round

Group D

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
5.	Australia	2	1	0	23:20	+ 3	5
6th	Hungary	2	0	1	28:27	+ 1	4th
7th	Germany	1	1	1	24:21	+ 3	3
8th.	Cuba	0	0	3	22:29	- 7th	0

8th August	09:30	Australia	Cuba	7: 5 (2: 0, 3: 1, 2: 2, 0: 2)
	12:00	Germany	Hungary	7: 8 (3: 2, 0: 1, 2: 3, 2: 2)
August 9	10:15	Germany	Cuba	10: 6 (2: 2, 4: 1, 1: 1, 3: 2)
	14:00	Australia	Hungary	9: 8 (2: 2, 3: 4, 3: 2, 1: 0)

Group E

space	team	Victories	Unent.	Ndlg.	Gates	Diff.	Points
09.	Netherlands	2	1	0	28:20	+ 8	5
10.	Greece	2	1	0	24:18	+ 6	5
11.	France	1	0	2	28:31	- 3	2
12.	Czechoslovakia	0	0	3	22:33	- 11	0

8th August	10:45	France	Greece	6:10 (0: 2, 2: 4, 2: 1, 2: 3)
	17:30	Czechoslovakia	Netherlands	8: 9 (2: 0, 3: 2, 2: 3, 1: 4)
August 9	09:00	Czechoslovakia	Greece	8:10 (2: 2, 2: 3, 3: 2, 1: 3)
	11:30	France	Netherlands	8:15 (0: 8, 1: 2, 4: 4, 3: 1)

Final round

	Semifinals				final
	Italy	9
	United team	8th
					Spain	8th
					Italy	9 a.d.
					3rd place match
	United States	4th			United States	4th
	Spain	6th			United team	8th

Semifinals

8th August	18:45	Italy	United team	9: 8 (2: 3, 3: 2, 2: 2, 2: 1)
	20:00	United States	Spain	4: 6 (1: 1, 1: 3, 1: 0, 1: 2)

3rd place match

August 9

15:15

United States

United team

4: 8 (2: 1, 0: 2, 1: 4, 1: 1)

final

August 9

16:45

Spain

Italy

8: 9 n.V. (0: 1, 2: 3, 3: 2, 2: 1, 0: 0, 1: 1, 0: 1)

source

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 , pp. 498-500.