Water polo at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Water polo
at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Venue Piscina Municipal de Montjuïc
Piscines Bernat Picornell (final)
Dates 1–9 August 1992
Competitors 152 from 12 nations
Medalists
1st, gold medalist(s)  Italy
2nd, silver medalist(s)  Spain
3rd, bronze medalist(s)  Unified Team

The men's water polo tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics was held from August 1 to August 10, 1992, in Barcelona, Spain. Reigning world champion Yugoslavia had qualified for the tournament, but as it had formally dissolved in the interim, it didn't participate. The successor countries didn't participate for several reasons. Serbia and Montenegro couldn't participate due to the UN sanctions due to their aggression on Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Croatia, which was the strongest among them at the time (the Croatian club was champion of Yugoslavia and European Champions' Cup winner), also did not participate in the water polo tournament.

The position of Yugoslavia was replaced by Czechoslovakia.

Teams

Squads

Preliminary round

Group A

Team Points G W D L GF GA Diff
1.  Unified Team 1055005032+18
2.  United States 854014024+16
3.  Australia 552124441+3
4.  Germany 452033841–3
5.  France 351133842–4
6.  Czechoslovakia 050053363–30
  • August 1, 1992
Czechoslovakia  6 – 10  Unified Team
Australia  4 – 8  United States
Germany  7 – 7  France
  • August 2, 1992
Czechoslovakia  3 – 9  United States
France  5 – 9  Australia
Germany  7 – 11  Unified Team
  • August 3, 1992
United States  11 – 7  France
Germany  15 – 9  Czechoslovakia
Australia  9 – 12  Unified Team
  • August 5, 1992
Czechoslovakia  6 – 14  France
United States  5 – 8  Unified Team
Germany  7 – 7  Australia
  • August 6, 1992
Australia  15 – 9  Czechoslovakia
United States  7 – 2  Germany
France  5 – 9  Unified Team

Group B

Team Points G W D L GF GA Diff
1.  Spain 954105236+16
2.  Italy 853204134+7
3.  Hungary 652214946+3
4.  Cuba 452035053–3
5.  Netherlands 250233646–10
6.  Greece 150143245–13
  • August 1, 1992
Hungary  7 – 7  Italy
Greece  9 – 10  Cuba
Spain  12 – 6  Netherlands
  • August 2, 1992
Netherlands  4 – 6  Italy
Cuba  11 – 12  Hungary
Spain  11 – 6  Greece
  • August 3, 1992
Italy  11 – 8  Cuba
Greece  4 – 4  Netherlands
Hungary  5 – 8  Spain
  • August 5, 1992
Netherlands  9 – 11  Cuba
Greece  7 – 12  Hungary
Spain  9 – 9  Italy
  • August 6, 1992
Hungary  13 – 13  Netherlands
Italy  8 – 6  Greece
Spain  12 – 10  Cuba

Final round

Group D

Team Points G W D L GF GA Diff
5.  Australia 532102320+3
6.  Hungary 432012827+1
7.  Germany 331112421+3
8.  Cuba 030032229–7
  • August 8, 1992
Australia  7 – 5  Cuba
Germany  7 – 8  Hungary
  • August 9, 1992
Germany  10 – 6  Cuba
Australia  9 – 8  Hungary

Group E

Team Points G W D L GF GA Diff
9.  Netherlands 532102820+8
10.  Greece 532102418+6
11.  France 231022831–3
12.  Czechoslovakia 030032233–11
  • August 8, 1992
France  6 – 10  Greece
Czechoslovakia  8 – 9  Netherlands
  • August 9, 1992
Czechoslovakia  8 – 10  Greece
France  8 – 15  Netherlands

Semi finals

  • August 8, 1992
Italy  9 – 8  Unified Team
United States  4 – 6  Spain

Bronze medal match

  • August 9, 1992
United States  4 – 8  Unified Team

Gold medal match

  • August 9, 1992
Spain  8 – 9 [aet]  Italy

Final ranking

 Italy
 Spain
 Unified Team
4 United States
5 Australia
6 Hungary
7 Germany
8 Cuba
9 Netherlands
10 Greece
11 France
12 Czechoslovakia

Medallists

Gold Silver Bronze
 Italy
Francesco Attolico
Alessandro Bovo
Alessandro Campagna
Paolo Caldarella
Massimiliano Ferretti
Giuseppe Porzio
Marco D'Altrui
Mario Fiorillo
Ferdinando Gandolfi
Amedeo Pomilio
Francesco Porzio
Carlo Silipo
Gianni Averaimo

Head Coach:
Ratko Rudić

 Spain
Daniel Ballart
Jesús Rollán
Jordi Sans
Josep Picó
Manuel Estiarte
Manuel Silvestre
Marco Antonio González
Miguel Ángel Oca
Pedro Francisco García
Ricardo Sánchez
Rubén Michavila
Salvador Gómez
Sergi Pedrerol

Head Coach:
Dragan Matutinović

 Unified Team
Sergey Naumov
Alexandre Ogorodnikov
Aleksandr Chigir
Dmitri Apanassenko
Andrei Belofastov
Evgueni Charonov
Dmitry Gorshkov
Vladimir Karabutov
Aleksandr Kolotov
Andriy Kovalenko
Nikolay Kozlov
Serghei Marcoci
Alexei Vdovine

Head Coach:
Boris Popov

See also

References

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