India men's national water polo team

The India men's national water polo team is the representative for India in International Men's water polo. Water Polo in India is administered by the Swimming Federation of India (SFI). India's Men's best performance was when they won gold at the 1951 Asian Games. The India men's national water polo team also won a silver medal at the 1970 Asian Games, losing to Japan, 4 goals to 3 in the finals.[1] The next time India won a medal was a bronze at the 1982 Asian Games.

India
FINA codeIND
ConfederationAASF (Asia)
Olympic Games
Appearances2 (first in 1948)
Best result12th place (1948)

India's Men's Team at the Olympics

Olympic Games

India's Men's Team at the Asian Games

India has participated 5 times at the Asian Games.

Year Rank Venue
1951 1 New Delhi, India
1970 2 Bangkok, Thailand
1974 6 Tehran, Iran
1982 3 New Delhi, India
1986 6 Seoul, South Korea

India's Men's National Team

As of July, 2018, as per the Swimming Federation of India (SFI)'s announcement of team[3] for the Asian Games, the team stood as follows:

Aneesh Babu (GK), Akshay Kumar Kunde, Ashwini Kumar Kunde, Adarsh VS, Uday Uttekar, Prithish Das, Sarang Vaidya, Aneesh Kumar, Karthik Ch Das, Shibin Lal, Manimaran D, S Ratheesh Kumar, Monjith Hasan, Lal Krishna and J Shreejith.

However, later the Indian Olympic Association decided against sending the Men's National Water polo team to the 2018 Asian Games.

References
  1. "When Indian won a silver in Asiad water polo - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
  2. "HistoFINA – Water polo medalists and statistics – Download" (PDF). fina.org. FINA. September 2017. p. 5. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 May 2019. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
  3. "SFI announces Indian swimming squad for Asian Games - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 30 June 2018.


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