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Water Polo, Men

Date	21 September – 1 October 1988
Status	Olympic
Location	Su-yeong-jang, Ol-lim-pik Gong-won, Seoul / Jam-sil Su-yeong-jang, Seoul Sports Complex, Seoul
Participants	156 from 12 countries
Format	Round-robin pools advanced teams to classification matches.

Yugoslavia had won the gold medal in 1984, although it came down only to goal differential over the United States in the final round. Yugoslavia had also won the 1986 World Championship, but by 1988 the United States was at least their equal. The two teams had played eight times in the 2½ months before the Seoul Olympics, with the USA winning five times. The two teams met in group play in their opening match of the Olympics, with the United States winning 7-6. But Yugoslavia won the group, as the United States lost to Spain 9-7, and the Yugoslavs again had a better goal differential. Both teams advanced to the semi-finals, however, where they each won to meet again in the final.

Just as in Los Angeles, the United States led by 5-2 in the third quarter. Yugoslavia then scored four straight goals to lead 6-5, but the American tied the match 6-6. The match went to overtime and Yugoslavia scored the first three goals to lead 9-6, eventually winning 9-7 for the gold medal.

Hungary was eliminated in group play and would eventually place fifth in Seoul. Hungary had won medals in water polo at every Olympics from 1924-80, and then did not play in 1984 because of the Soviet-led boycott. Seoul marked the first time since Amsterdam in 1928 that Hungary did not win a water polo medal at an Olympics in which they competed.

Pos	Number	Team	NOC	GP	Goals	Natural Action Goals	Extraman Goals	Penalty Shot Goals	Offensive Faults	Exclusions (35 seconds)	Penalty Fouls	Exclusion (w/wo Sub)
1	–	Yugoslavia	YUG	7	83	50	32	1	2	68	7	0	Gold
	585	Dragan Andrić		7	11	6	5	0	0	9	0	0
	586	Mislav Bezmalinović		7	4	3	1	0	0	7	1	0
	587	Perica Bukić		7	10	5	5	0	1	3	1	0
	588	Veselin Đuho		7	9	6	2	1	0	4	0	0
	589	Igor Gočanin		7	5	1	4	0	0	3	0	0
	591	Deni Lušić		7	10	7	3	0	0	9	1	0
	593	Igor Milanović		7	16	12	4	0	0	3	1	0
	594	Tomislav Paškvalin		7	6	4	2	0	1	2	0	0
	596	Renco Posinković		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	597	Goran Rađenović		7	6	4	2	0	0	15	2	0
	598	Dubravko Šimenc		7	3	2	1	0	0	10	0	0
	599	Aleksandar Šoštar		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
	600	Mirko Vičević		7	3	0	3	0	0	3	0	0
Coach		Ratko Rudić
2	–	United States	USA	7	71	33	36	2	5	51	3	0	Silver
	545	James Bergeson		7	9	5	2	2	2	3	0	0
	549	Greg Boyer		7	4	2	2	0	0	4	0	0
	551	Peter Campbell		7	9	3	6	0	0	11	0	0
	552	Jeff Campbell		7	1	0	1	0	0	4	1	0
	553	Jody Campbell		7	12	6	6	0	2	7	0	0
	557	Chris Duplanty		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	558	Mike Evans		7	10	2	8	0	1	4	1	0
	566	Doug Kimbell		7	2	1	1	0	0	8	0	0
	567	Craig Klass		7	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
	572	Alan Mouchawar		7	4	3	1	0	0	1	0	0
	574	Kevin Robertson		7	8	3	5	0	0	4	0	0
	576	Terry Schroeder		7	10	6	4	0	0	5	0	0
	583	Craig Wilson		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Coach		Bill Barnett
3	–	Soviet Union	URS	7	84	59	22	3	2	54	5	0	Bronze
	507	Dmitry Apanasenko		7	14	9	4	1	0	2	0	0
	510	Viktor Berendyuga		7	1	0	1	0	0	8	1	0
	512	Yevgeny Sharonov		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	515	Mikheil Giorgadze		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	517	Yevgeny Grishin		7	4	1	3	0	0	7	1	0
	519	Mikhail Ivanov		7	5	5	0	0	0	6	1	0
	520	Aleksandr Kolotov		7	6	3	3	0	0	11	0	0
	521	Sergey Kotenko		7	12	8	3	1	0	3	0	0
	526	Sergey Markoch		7	9	8	0	1	0	3	0	0
	528	Giorgi Mshvenieradze		7	14	11	3	0	0	3	0	0
	529	Nurlan Mendygaliyev		7	5	4	1	0	0	6	1	0
	530	Sergey Naumov		7	5	3	2	0	2	2	1	0
	536	Nikolay Smirnov		7	9	7	2	0	0	3	0	0
Coach		Boris Popov
4	–	West Germany	FRG	7	83	43	33	7	1	54	7	0
	200	Ingo Borgmann		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	201	Andreas Ehrl		7	6	3	3	0	0	13	1	0
	203	Armando Fernández		7	4	1	3	0	0	2	0	0
	211	Thomas Huber		7	3	2	1	0	0	2	0	0
	212	Dirk Jacoby		7	3	3	0	0	0	2	0	0
	216	Werner Obschernikat		7	2	1	1	0	0	2	1	0
	217	Rainer Osselmann		7	8	4	3	1	0	9	2	0
	218	Frank Otto		7	16	6	6	4	0	10	2	0
	220	René Reimann		7	6	1	4	1	0	2	0	0
	221	Peter Röhle		7	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
	223	Hagen Stamm		7	15	11	3	1	1	3	0	0
	224	Uwe Sterzik		7	3	2	1	0	0	2	0	0
	225	Dirk Theismann		7	17	9	8	0	0	5	1	0
Coach		Nicolae Firoiu
5	–	Hungary	HUN	6	72	34	28	1	0	56	5	0
	304	Gábor Bujka		6	11	6	5	0	0	7	1	0
	309	András Gyöngyösi		6	19	8	8	0	0	3	2	0
	311	Tibor Keszthelyi		7	7	4	1	0	0	12	0	0
	312	Zoltán Kósz		6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	313	Péter Kuna		6	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
	314	Zoltán Mohi		7	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
	316	Tibor Pardi		6	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	317	Zsolt Petőváry		6	8	4	4	0	0	4	1	0
	318	István Pintér		6	1	0	0	0	0	3	0	0
	319	Gábor Schmiedt		6	4	2	1	0	0	12	0	0
	323	László Tóth		6	10	4	6	0	0	6	0	0
	324	Imre Tóth		6	9	5	2	1	0	3	1	0
	325	Balázs Vincze		6	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0
Coach		Zoltán Kásás
6	–	Spain	ESP	7	66	36	23	7	1	35	11	1
	143	Miguel Chillida		7	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
	144	Manuel Estiarte		7	27	16	4	7	0	1	0	0
	147	Pedro García		7	9	5	4	0	0	8	1	0
	149	Salvador Gómez		7	8	3	5	0	0	2	2	0
	150	Marco Antonio González		7	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0
	154	Mariano Moya		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	155	Jorge Neira		7	4	1	3	0	0	11	3	0
	156	Jordi Payá		7	3	2	1	0	0	0	1	0
	157	Miguel Pérez		7	1	1	0	0	0	2	1	0
	159	Pedro Robert		7	1	1	0	0	1	2	1	0
	160	José Antonio Rodríguez		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	161	Jesús Miguel Rollán		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	162	Jordi Sans		7	13	7	6	0	0	4	1	1
Coach		Antonio Esteller
7	–	Italy	ITA	6	66	31	21	5	2	36	3	0
	343	Gianni Averaimo		6	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
	346	Paolo Caldarella		6	3	2	1	0	0	1	0	0
	347	Sandro Campagna		6	12	6	2	2	0	3	0	0
	352	Marco D'Altrui		6	1	0	0	0	1	4	0	0
	354	Massimiliano Ferretti		6	12	7	4	0	1	4	0	0
	355	Mario Fiorillo		6	4	3	1	0	0	4	1	0
	363	Alfio Misaggi		6	4	1	2	0	0	4	0	0
	366	Andrea Pisano		6	10	4	5	0	0	6	0	0
	367	Franco Porzio		6	11	1	5	3	0	3	0	0
	368	Stefano Postiglione		6	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
	372	Antonello Steardo		6	5	4	1	0	0	10	1	0
	373	Riccardo Tempestini		6	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
	374	Paolo Trapanese		6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Coach		Fritz Dennerlein
8	–	Australia	AUS	7	53	33	19	1	3	43	4	0
	6	Simon Asher		7	3	1	2	0	0	5	2	0
	12	Don Cameron		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	13	Geoff Clark		7	14	9	5	0	0	5	0	0
	14	John Fox		7	5	5	0	0	0	3	0	0
	15	Chris Harrison		7	1	0	1	0	1	2	0	0
	16	Andrew Kerr		7	4	2	2	0	1	3	0	0
	17	Ray Mayers		7	5	2	3	0	0	4	2	0
	20	Richard Pengelley		7	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0
	26	Troy Stockwell		7	5	3	2	0	0	6	0	0
	27	Andrew Taylor		7	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	0
	28	Glenn Townsend		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	30	Andrew Wightman		7	2	1	1	0	0	5	0	0
	34	Chris Wybrow		7	10	7	2	1	1	8	0	0
Coach		Tom Hoad
9	–	Greece	GRE	7	72	39	24	9	0	54	3	0
	266	Antonis Aronis		7	16	10	6	0	0	15	0	0
	267	Nikos Christoforidis		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	269	Kyriakos Giannopoulos		7	18	8	4	6	0	8	0	0
	271	Filippos Kaiafas		7	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
	272	Aristidis Kefalogiannis		7	6	2	4	0	0	4	0	0
	274	Georgios Mavrotas		7	2	2	0	0	0	2	1	0
	275	Tasos Papanastasiou		7	2	1	1	0	0	2	0	0
	277	Evangelos Pateros		7	2	2	0	0	0	1	1	0
	278	Vangelis Patras		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	279	Epameinondas Samartzidis		7	10	5	4	1	0	8	0	0
	280	Dimitrios Seletopoulos		7	4	3	0	1	0	6	0	0
	281	Anastasios Tsikaris		7	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
	282	Nikolaos Venetopoulos		7	9	5	3	1	0	7	1	0
Coach		Kyriakos Iosifidis
10	–	France	FRA	7	61	33	22	6	4	38	2	0
	167	Thierry Alimondo		7	2	2	0	0	0	2	0	0
	170	Arnaud Bouet		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
	171	Bruno Boyadjian		7	2	0	2	0	0	2	0	0
	172	Marc Brisfer		7	3	3	0	0	1	5	0	0
	174	Marc Crousillat		7	3	2	1	0	0	2	0	0
	175	Michel Crousillat		7	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0
	178	Pierre Garsau		7	20	10	6	4	0	6	0	0
	180	Philippe Hervé		7	11	5	4	2	0	1	0	0
	183	Michel Idoux		7	7	2	5	0	1	7	0	0
	184	Nicolas Jeleff		7	9	6	3	0	1	4	1	0
	189	Nicolas Marischael		7	2	1	1	0	0	2	0	0
	193	Pascal Pérot		7	2	2	0	0	0	5	0	0
	197	Christian Volpi		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Coach		Jean-Paul Clemençon
11	–	People's Republic of China	CHN	7	52	31	20	1	5	51	5	0
	92	Cai Shengliu		7	4	4	0	0	0	8	0	0
	95	Cui Shiping		7	2	0	2	0	1	7	0	0
	97	Ge Jianqing		7	5	3	2	0	1	7	2	0
	99	Huang Long		7	6	5	1	0	0	6	1	0
	100	Huang Qijiang		7	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
	103	Li Jianxiong		7	6	1	5	0	0	1	0	0
	107	Ni Shiwei		7	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
	111	Wang Minhui		7	5	1	4	0	0	11	1	0
	112	Wen Fan		7	3	2	1	0	0	2	0	0
	115	Yang Yong		7	16	10	5	1	1	3	1	0
	116	Yu Xiang		7	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
	118	Zhao Bilong		7	5	5	0	0	1	4	0	0
	120	Zheng Qing		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Coach		Peng Shaorong
12	–	Republic of Korea	KOR	7	28	14	13	1	2	47	4	1
	390	Jang Si-Yeong		7	1	1	0	0	1	3	0	0
	391	Choi Seon-Yong		7	5	4	1	0	0	3	1	1
	392	Hong Sun-Bo		7	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
	393	Kim Jae-Yeon		7	6	1	4	1	0	9	1	0
	394	Kim Jin-Tae		7	0	0	0	0	0	7	0	0
	395	Kim Gi-Chun		7	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0
	396	Kim Gil-Hwan		7	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0
	397	Kim Seong-Eun		7	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
	401	Lee Jeong-Seok		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	403	Lee Taek-Won		7	4	2	2	0	0	6	0	0
	405	Park Sang-Won		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	408	Song Seung-Ho		7	7	5	2	0	1	3	1	0
	410	Yu Seung-Hun		7	3	0	3	0	0	8	1	0
Coach		Kim Jong-Ku

Preliminary Round

Date	21 – 27 September 1988

Group A

Date	21 – 27 September 1988
Format	Round-robin pool.

Pos	Competitors	NOC	Wins	Ties	Losses	Points	Goals
1	West Germany	FRG	5	0	0	10	60-37

2	Soviet Union	URS	3	1	1	7	63-30

3	Italy	ITA	3	1	1	7	48-33

4	Australia	AUS	2	0	3	4	40-39

5	France	FRA	1	0	4	2	43-54

6	Republic of Korea	KOR	0	0	5	0	14-75

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	21 Sep 14:00	Italy	ITA	9 – 9	Soviet Union	URS
Match #2	21 Sep 15:15	France	FRA	16 – 5	Republic of Korea	KOR
Match #3	21 Sep 16:30	West Germany	FRG	13 – 11	Australia	AUS
Match #4	22 Sep 14:00	Italy	ITA	11 – 1	Republic of Korea	KOR
Match #5	22 Sep 15:15	West Germany	FRG	10 – 9	France	FRA
Match #6	22 Sep 16:30	Soviet Union	URS	11 – 4	Australia	AUS
Match #7	23 Sep 14:00	West Germany	FRG	18 – 2	Republic of Korea	KOR
Match #8	23 Sep 15:15	Italy	ITA	7 – 5	Australia	AUS
Match #9	23 Sep 16:30	Soviet Union	URS	18 – 4	France	FRA
Match #10	26 Sep 9:00	West Germany	FRG	10 – 7	Italy	ITA
Match #11	26 Sep 10:15	Soviet Union	URS	17 – 4	Republic of Korea	KOR
Match #12	26 Sep 11:30	Australia	AUS	7 – 6	France	FRA
Match #13	27 Sep 9:00	Italy	ITA	14 – 8	France	FRA
Match #14	27 Sep 10:15	Australia	AUS	13 – 2	Republic of Korea	KOR
Match #15	27 Sep 11:30	West Germany	FRG	9 – 8	Soviet Union	URS

Group B

Date	21 – 27 September 1988
Format	Round-robin pool.

Pos	Competitors	NOC	Wins	Ties	Losses	Points	Goals
1	Yugoslavia	YUG	4	0	1	8	60-38

2	United States	USA	4	0	1	8	56-40

3	Spain	ESP	3	1	1	7	48-38

4	Hungary	HUN	2	1	2	5	50-43

5	Greece	GRE	1	0	4	2	45-66

6	People's Republic of China	CHN	0	0	5	0	34-68

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	21 Sep 9:00	Hungary	HUN	12 – 10	Greece	GRE
Match #2	21 Sep 10:15	United States	USA	7 – 6	Yugoslavia	YUG
Match #3	21 Sep 11:30	Spain	ESP	13 – 6	People's Republic of China	CHN
Match #4	22 Sep 9:00	Greece	GRE	10 – 7	People's Republic of China	CHN
Match #5	22 Sep 10:15	Spain	ESP	9 – 7	United States	USA
Match #6	22 Sep 11:30	Yugoslavia	YUG	10 – 9	Hungary	HUN
Match #7	23 Sep 9:00	United States	USA	14 – 7	People's Republic of China	CHN
Match #8	23 Sep 10:15	Yugoslavia	YUG	17 – 7	Greece	GRE
Match #9	23 Sep 11:30	Hungary	HUN	6 – 6	Spain	ESP
Match #10	26 Sep 14:00	United States	USA	18 – 9	Greece	GRE
Match #11	26 Sep 15:15	Hungary	HUN	14 – 7	People's Republic of China	CHN
Match #12	26 Sep 16:30	Yugoslavia	YUG	10 – 8	Spain	ESP
Match #13	27 Sep 14:00	Spain	ESP	12 – 9	Greece	GRE
Match #14	27 Sep 15:15	United States	USA	10 – 9	Hungary	HUN
Match #15	27 Sep 16:30	Yugoslavia	YUG	17 – 7	People's Republic of China	CHN

Semi-Finals

Date	30 September 1988
Format	Single-elimination.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	30 Sep 20:15	Yugoslavia	YUG	14 – 10	West Germany	FRG
Match #2	30 Sep 21:30	United States	USA	8 – 7	Soviet Union	URS

Classification Round 5-8

Date	30 September – 1 October 1988
Format	Classification matches.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	30 Sep 16:00	Hungary	HUN	9 – 9	Italy	ITA
Match #2	30 Sep 19:00	Australia	AUS	8 – 7	Spain	ESP
Match #3	01 Oct 19:00	Hungary	HUN	13 – 5	Australia	AUS
Match #4	01 Oct 20:15	Spain	ESP	11 – 9	Italy	ITA

Classification Round 9-12

Date	30 September – 1 October 1988
Format	Classification matches.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	30 Sep 13:30	France	FRA	11 – 4	People's Republic of China	CHN
Match #2	30 Sep 14:45	Greece	GRE	17 – 7	Republic of Korea	KOR
Match #3	01 Oct 13:30	People's Republic of China	CHN	14 – 7	Republic of Korea	KOR
Match #4	01 Oct 14:45	Greece	GRE	10 – 7	France	FRA

Final Round

Date	1 October 1988
Format	Medal round.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match 1/2	01 Oct 21:30	Yugoslavia	YUG	9 – 7	United States	USA	AET
Match 3/4	01 Oct 16:00	Soviet Union	URS	14 – 13	West Germany	FRG