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Water Polo, Men

Date25 July – 8 August 2021
StatusOlympic
LocationTokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center, Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan
Participants156 from 12 countries
FormatRound-robin pools advanced teams to classification matches.

There was no clear favorite in the men’s tournament. The 2019 world champion was Italy, while Hungary had won the 2020 European Championship, but only by a penalty shoot-out over Spain. The defending gold medallist was Serbia, winner of the 2019 World League, who was also highly considered.

Spain dominated the group stage with 5 wins, whereas the other group was more balanced as Greece secured the first place there. Serbia was only third with two losses against Spain and Croatia. The two group winners won their quarter-final matches by wide margins. However, Serbia took Spain by surprise in the semi-final and claimed the gold medal as well with a final victory over Greece, which secured its first ever Olympic men’s water polo medal. Hungary took the bronze medal, defeating Spain.

PosNumberTeamNOC
1SerbiaSRBGold
Goalkeeper1Gojko Pijetlović
Driver2Dušan Mandić
Driver3Nikola Dedović
Centre Back4Sava Ranđelović
Centre Forward5Đorđe Lazić
Centre Forward6Duško Pijetlović
Driver7Strahinja Rašović
Centre Back8Milan Aleksić
Centre Back9Nikola Jakšić
Driver10Filip Filipović
Driver11Andrija Prlainović
Driver12Stefan Mitrović
Goalkeeper13Branislav Mitrović
CoachDejan Savić
2GreeceGRESilver
Goalkeeper1Manos Zerdevas
Driver2Konstantinos Genidounias
Centre Back3Dimitris Skoumpakis
Driver4Marios Kapotsis
Driver5Giannis Fountoulis
Driver6Alexandros Papanastasiou
Centre Back7Georgios Dervisis
Centre Back8Stylianos Argyropoulos Kanakakis
Centre Forward9Kostas Mourikis
Centre Forward10Christodoulos Kolomvos
Driver11Konstantinos Gkiouvetsis
Driver12Angelos Vlachopoulos
Goalkeeper13Konstantinos Galanidis
CoachTheodoros Vlachos
3HungaryHUNBronze
Goalkeeper1Viktor Nagy
Centre Back2Dániel Angyal
Driver3Krisztián Manhercz
Driver4Gergő Zalánki
Driver5Márton Vámos
Centre Back6Norbert Hosnyánszky
Driver7Mátyás Pásztor
Centre Back8Szilárd Jansik
Driver9Balázs Erdélyi
Driver10Dénes Varga
Centre Forward11Tamás Mezei
Centre Forward12Balázs Hárai
Goalkeeper13Soma Vogel
CoachTamás Märcz
4SpainESP
Goalkeeper1Daniel López
Driver2Alberto Munárriz
Driver3Álvaro Granados
Driver4Bernat Sanahuja
Centre Forward5Miguel De Toro
Driver6Marc Larumbe
Centre Back7Martín Famera
Driver8Fran Fernández
Centre Forward9Roger Tahull
Driver10Felipe Perrone
Driver11Blai Mallarach
Centre Back12Alejandro Bustos
Goalkeeper13Unai Aguirre
CoachDavid Martín
5CroatiaCRO
Goalkeeper1Marko Bijač
Centre Back2Marko Macan
Driver3Loren Fatović
Centre Forward4Luka Lončar
Driver5Maro Joković
Driver6Luka Bukić
Driver7Ante Vukičević
Centre Back8Andro Bušlje
Driver9Lovre Miloš
Centre Forward10Josip Vrlić
Centre Back11Paulo Obradović
Driver12Xavier García
Goalkeeper13Ivan Marcelić
CoachIvica Tucak
6United StatesUSA
Goalkeeper1Alex Wolf
Driver2Johnny Hooper
Driver3Marko Vavic
Centre Forward4Alex Obert
Driver5Hannes Daube
Driver6Luca Cupido
Centre Forward7Ben Hallock
Centre Back8Dylan Woodhead
Driver9Alex Bowen
Driver10Ben Stevenson
Centre Back11Jesse Smith
Driver12Max Irving
Goalkeeper13Drew Holland
CoachDejan Udovičić
7ItalyITA
Goalkeeper1Marco Del Lungo
Driver2Francesco Di Fulvio
Driver3Stefano Luongo
Driver4Pietro Figlioli
Centre Back5Nicholas Presciutti
Driver6Alessandro Velotto
Driver7Vincenzo Renzuto
Driver8Gonzalo Echenique
Centre Back9Niccolò Figari
Centre Forward10Michaël Bodegas
Centre Forward11Matteo Aicardi
Driver12Vincenzo Dolce
Goalkeeper13Gianmarco Nicosia
CoachSandro Campagna
8MontenegroMNE
Goalkeeper1Slaven Kandić
Driver2Draško Brguljan
Centre Forward3Miroslav Perković
Driver4Marko Petković
Centre Back5Uroš Čučković
Centre Back6Vlado Popadić
Driver7Stefan Vidović
Driver8Aleksa Ukropina
Centre Back9Aleksandar Ivović
Centre Forward10Vladan Spaić
Driver11Dušan Matković
Centre Back12Dušan Banićević
Goalkeeper13Petar Tešanović
CoachVladimir Gojković
9AustraliaAUS
Goalkeeper1Anthony Hrysanthos
Centre Back2Richie Campbell
Centre Back3George Ford
Centre Forward4Goran Tomašević
Centre Back5Nathan Power
Driver6Lachlan Edwards
Driver7Aidan Roach
Driver8Aaron Younger
Driver9Andrew Ford
Centre Back10Tim Putt
Driver11Rhys Howden
Centre Forward12Blake Edwards
Goalkeeper13Joel Dennerley
CoachElvis Fatović
10JapanJPN
Goalkeeper1Katsuyuki Tanamura
Driver2Seiya Adachi
Centre Back3Harukiirario Koppu
Driver4Mitsuaki Shiga
Driver5Takuma Yoshida
Driver6Toi Suzuki
Centre Forward7Yusuke Shimizu
Driver8Mitsuru Takata
Driver9Atsushi Arai
Driver10Yusuke Inaba
Driver11Keigo Okawa
Centre Forward12Kenta Araki
Goalkeeper13Tomoyoshi Fukushima
CoachYoji Omoto
11KazakhstanKAZ
Goalkeeper1Madikhan Makhmetov
Driver2Yevgeny Medvedev
Driver3Miras Aubakirov
Centre Back4Dušan Marković
Driver5Aleksey Shmider
Centre Back6Danil Artyukh
Driver7Murat Shakenov
Driver8Srđan Vuksanović
Driver9Rustam Ukumanov
Centre Forward10Mikhail Ruday
Centre Forward11Altay Altayev
Centre Back12Stanislav Shvedov
Goalkeeper13Pavel Lipilin
CoachNemanja Knežević
12South AfricaRSA
Goalkeeper1Lwazi Madi
Centre Forward2Devon Card
Driver3Timothy Rezelman
Centre Forward4Nardus Badenhorst
Centre Back5Cameron Laurenson
Driver6Ross Stone
Driver7Jason Evezard
Driver8Nicholas Rodda
Driver9Yaseen Margro
Centre Back10Farouk Mayman
Centre Forward11Liam Neill
Centre Back12Donn Stewart
Goalkeeper13Gareth May
CoachPaul Martin

Preliminary Round

Date25 July – 2 August 2021

Group A

Date25 July – 2 August 2021
FormatRound-robin pool.
PosTeamNOCWinsTiesLossesPointsGoals
1GreeceGRE410968-34
2ItalyITA320860-32
3HungaryHUN311764-35
4United StatesUSA203459-53
5JapanJPN104265-66
6South AfricaRSA005020-116
MatchDate/TimeTeamNOCResultTeamNOC
Match #125 Jul 10:00ItalyITA21 – 2South Africa 1RSA
Match #225 Jul 11:30GreeceGRE10 – 9Hungary 2HUN
Match #325 Jul 14:00United States 3USA15 – 13Japan 4JPN
Match #427 Jul 10:00United StatesUSA20 – 3South Africa 5RSA
Match #527 Jul 15:30Italy 6ITA6 – 6Greece 7GRE
Match #627 Jul 18:20Hungary 8HUN16 – 11Japan 9JPN
Match #729 Jul 10:00HungaryHUN23 – 1South Africa 10RSA
Match #829 Jul 14:00Italy 11ITA12 – 11United States 12USA
Match #929 Jul 18:20Greece 13GRE10 – 9JapanJPN
Match #1031 Jul 14:00Hungary 14HUN11 – 8United States 15USA
Match #1131 Jul 18:20ItalyITA16 – 8JapanJPN
Match #1231 Jul 19:50GreeceGRE28 – 5South Africa 16RSA
Match #1302 Aug 10:00Hungary 17HUN5 – 5Italy 18ITA
Match #1402 Aug 11:30Greece 19GRE14 – 5United States 20USA
Match #1502 Aug 18:20JapanJPN24 – 9South Africa 21RSA

Group B

Date25 July – 2 August 2021
FormatRound-robin pool.
PosTeamNOCWinsTiesLossesPointsGoals
1SpainESP5001061-31
2CroatiaCRO302662-36
3SerbiaSRB302670-36
4MontenegroMNE203454-56
5AustraliaAUS203449-60
6KazakhstanKAZ005035-92
MatchDate/TimeTeamNOCResultTeamNOC
Match #125 Jul 15:30Montenegro 22MNE15 – 10AustraliaAUS
Match #225 Jul 18:20Spain 23ESP13 – 12Serbia 24SRB
Match #325 Jul 19:50Croatia 25CRO23 – 7Kazakhstan 26KAZ
Match #427 Jul 11:30Spain 27ESP8 – 6MontenegroMNE
Match #527 Jul 14:00SerbiaSRB19 – 5Kazakhstan 28KAZ
Match #627 Jul 19:50Australia 29AUS11 – 8CroatiaCRO
Match #729 Jul 11:30Spain 30ESP16 – 4Kazakhstan 31KAZ
Match #829 Jul 15:30CroatiaCRO13 – 8Montenegro 32MNE
Match #929 Jul 19:50SerbiaSRB14 – 8Australia 33AUS
Match #1031 Jul 10:00Montenegro 34MNE19 – 12Kazakhstan 35KAZ
Match #1131 Jul 11:30Spain 36ESP16 – 5Australia 37AUS
Match #1231 Jul 15:30CroatiaCRO14 – 12SerbiaSRB
Match #1302 Aug 14:00SerbiaSRB13 – 6Montenegro 38MNE
Match #1402 Aug 15:30Spain 39ESP8 – 4CroatiaCRO
Match #1502 Aug 19:50AustraliaAUS15 – 7Kazakhstan 40KAZ

Quarter-Finals

Date4 August 2021
FormatWinners of each match advanced to semi-finals.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #104 Aug 14:00SpainESP12 – 8United States 41USA
Match #204 Aug 15:30Greece 42GRE10 – 4Montenegro 43MNE
Match #304 Aug 18:20SerbiaSRB10 – 6ItalyITA
Match #404 Aug 19:50Hungary 44HUN15 – 11CroatiaCRO

Classification Round 5-8

Date6 – 8 August 2021
FormatClassification matches.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #106 Aug 18:20Croatia 45CRO12 – 10MontenegroMNE
Match #208 Aug 9:30United States 46USA7 – 6Italy 47ITA

Semi-Finals

Date6 August 2021
FormatWinners of each match advanced to finals.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #106 Aug 15:30Greece 48GRE9 – 6HungaryHUN
Match #206 Aug 19:50SerbiaSRB10 – 9Spain 49ESP

Final Round

Date6 – 8 August 2021
FormatClassification round.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match 1/208 Aug 16:30Serbia 50SRB13 – 10Greece 51GRE
Match 3/408 Aug 13:40Hungary 52HUN9 – 5SpainESP
Match 5/608 Aug 11:00Croatia 53CRO14 – 11United States 54USA
Match 7/806 Aug 14:00Italy 55ITA14 – 14MontenegroMNE