Water polo at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads

The following is the list of squads that took part in the men's water polo tournament at the 1952 Summer Olympics.[1]

CF=Centre Forward
CB=Centre Back
D=Defender
GK=Goalkeeper

Argentina

Argentina entered a squad of ten players. They scored six goals but only three scorers are known.[2]

Head coach:

Pos.	Player	DoB	Age	Caps	Tournament games	Tournament goals
	Osvaldo Codaro	9 December 1930	21	?	3	?
GK	Luis Díez	2 November 1923	28	?	3	?
	Luis González			?	0	0
	Rubén Maidana			?	0	0
	Roberto Marino			?	0	0
	Luis Normandín	19 September 1932	19	?	3	?
	Mario Sebastián	7 May 1926	26	?	3	3
	Ladislao Szabo	11 April 1923	29	?	3	?
	Carlos Visentín	28 November 1918	33	?	3	?
	Marcelo Visentín	30 May 1914	38	?	3	?

Australia

Australia entered a squad of ten players. They scored two goals but all scorers are unknown.[3]

Head coach:

Pos.	Player	DoB	Age	Caps	Club	Tournament games	Tournament goals
	Peter Bennett	11 July 1926	26	?	Dolfish Swimming Team Paramaribo	2	?
	Anthony Fenech			?		0	0
	John Foster	11 May 1931	21	?		2	?
	Malcolm Hastie	29 February 1929	23	?	Victoria	2	?
	Frank Jordan	19 August 1932	19	?		2	?
GK	Doug Laing	19 March 1931	21	?		2	?
	James O'Doherty			?		0	0
	William Orchard	31 October 1929	22	?		2	?
	Raymond Smee	25 October 1930	21	?		2	?
	Keith Whitehead	9 September 1931	20	?		0	0

Austria

Austria entered a squad of eleven players. They scored fourteen goals but all scorers are unknown.[4]

Head coach:

Pos.	Player	DoB	Age	Caps	Club	Tournament games	Tournament goals
	Erich Bohuslav	28 April 1927	25	?	Schwimm-Union Wien	5	?
	Julius Depaoli	29 March 1923	29	?	Schwimm-Union Wien	5	?
	Ernst Endl	25 December 1929	22	?		3	?
	Anton Kunz	9 January 1915	37	?		1	?
	Heinrich Krumpfholz	19 March 1925	27	?	Schwimm-Union Wien	3	?
	Johann Liebenberger	27 October 1930	21	?		5	?
GK	Johann Reichel	20 July 1922	30	?		5	?
	Peter Steinwender	2 November 1928	23	?	Schwimm-Union Wien	0	0
	Rudolf Stiskalik	18 May 1929	23	?	Schwimm-Union Wien	4	?
	Hellmut Theimer	15 February 1928	22	?		2	?
	Franz Zigon	9 March 1924	28	?		2	?

Belgium

Belgium entered an unknown number of players ten of them are known. They scored 27 goals but only two scorers are known.[5]

Head coach:

Pos.	Player	DoB	Age	Caps	Tournament games	Tournament goals
GK	Théo-Léo de Smet	9 November 1917	34	?	7	?
	Marcel Heyninck	9 March 1931	21	?	8	1
	André Laurent	14 February 1931	21	?	8	?
	Georges Leenheere	21 November 1919	32	?	2	?
GK	François Maesschalck	19 October 1921	30	?	1	?
	Alphonse Martin	18 April 1930	22	?	8	?
	Joseph Reynders	16 December 1929	22	?	1	?
	Roland Sierens	15 July 1925	27	?	6	?
	Jozef Smits	28 March 1930	22	?	7	?
	Johan Van Den Steen	8 January 1929	23	?	8	1

Brazil

The following players represented Brazil.[6]

Egypt

The following players represented Egypt.[7]

Germany

The following players represented Germany.[8]

Great Britain

The following players represented Great Britain.[9]

Hungary

Hungary entered a squad of 13 players. They scored 53 goals.[10]

Head coach:

Pos.	Player	DoB	Age	Caps	Club	Tournament games	Tournament goals
GK	Róbert Antal	21 July 1921	31	?	Budapesti Bástya	2	0
	Antal Bolvári	6 May 1932	20	?	Budapesti Honvéd Sportegyesület	6	1
	Dezső Fábián	17 December 1918	33	?	Budapesti Kinizsi	1	0
	Dezső Gyarmati	23 October 1927	24	?	Budapesti Dózsa	8	7
	István Hasznos	8 December 1924	27	?	Szolnoki Dózsa	2	7
GK	László Jeney	30 May 1923	29	?	Budapesti Vasas Sport Club	6	0
	György Kárpáti	23 June 1935	17	?	Budapesti Kinizsi	5	4
	Dezső Lemhényi	9 December 1917	34	?	Budapesti Dózsa	2	5
	Kálmán Markovits	26 August 1931	20	?	Budapesti Vasas Sport Club	6	3
	Miklós Martin	29 June 1931	21	?	Újpesti Dózsa Sportegyesület	2	5
	Károly Szittya	18 June 1918	34	?	Ferencvárosi Torna Club	3	5
	István Szivós	20 August 1920	31	?	Budapesti Vasas Sport Club	6	16
	György Vizvári	18 December 1928	23	?	Budapesti Dózsa	7	0

India

The following players represented India.[11]

Italy

Italy entered a squad of eleven players. They scored 43 goals but all scorers are unknown.[12]

Head coach: Giulio De Filippis and Mario Majoni

Pos.	Player	DoB	Age	Caps	Club	Tournament games	Tournament goals
	Gildo Arena	25 February 1921	31	?	Canottieri Napoli	8	?
	Lucio Ceccarini	13 December 1930	21	?	S.S. Lazio Nuoto	1	?
	Renato De Sanzuane	5 March 1925	27	?	Rari Nantes Camogli	7	?
GK	Raffaello Gambino	28 April 1928	24	?	S.S. Lazio Nuoto	7	?
	Salvatore Gionta	22 December 1930	21	?	S.S. Lazio Nuoto	2	?
	Maurizio Mannelli	1 January 1930	22	?	Circolo Canottieri Napoli	8	?
	Geminio Ognio	13 December 1917	34	?	S.S. Lazio Nuoto	4	?
	Carlo Peretti	5 March 1930	22	?	Rari Nantes Florentia	5	?
	Enzo Polito	29 October 1926	25	?	Circolo Canottieri Napoli	6	?
	Cesare Rubini	2 November 1923	28	?	Rari Nantes Camogli	7	?
GK	Renato Traiola	19 December 1924	27	?	Circolo Canottieri Napoli	1	?

Mexico

The following players represented Mexico.[13]

Netherlands

The Netherlands entered an unknown number of players only seven of them are known. They scored 43 goals only 38 scorers are unknown.[14]

Head coach: Frans Kuyper

Pos.	Player	DoB	Age	Caps	Club	Tournament games	Tournament goals
	Gerrit Bijlsma	17 November 1929	22	?	't IJ Amsterdam	9	3
	Cor Braasem	15 May 1923	29	?	Neptunus Arnhem	9	5
	Joop Cabout	28 October 1927	24	?	HZC De Robben	9	1
	Rudy van Feggelen	14 April 1924	28	?	Haagse Zwem- en Polo Club	9	18
GK	Max van Gelder	20 October 1924	27	?	Haagse Zwem- en Polo Club	9	?
	Nijs Korevaar	31 December 1927	24	?	Zwemvereniging De Maas Rotterdam	9	3
	Frits Smol	6 July 1924	28	?	Haagse Zwem- en Polo Club	9	8

Portugal

Portugal entered a squad of ten players. They scored two goals but both are unknown.[15]

Head coach:

Pos.	Player	DoB	Age	Caps	Club	Tournament games	Tournament goals
	Francisco Alves	24 May 1923	29	?	Sport Algés e Dafundo	2	?
	Eduardo Barbeiro	11 January 1932	20	?	Sport Algés e Dafundo	2	?
	Óscar Cabral	18 November 1921	30	?	Sport Algés e Dafundo	1	?
	José Manuel Correia	26 July 1925	26	?	Sport Algés e Dafundo	1	?
GK	Máximo Couto	14 September 1923	28	?	Sport Algés e Dafundo	2	?
	João Franco do Vale	13 July 1930	22	?	Sport Algés e Dafundo	2	?
	Rodrigo Basto Junior	29 March 1919	33	?	Sport Algés e Dafundo	1	?
	Fernando Madeira	12 May 1932	20	?	Sport Algés e Dafundo	1	?
	Armando Moutinho	4 January 1915	37	?	Sport Algés e Dafundo	2	?

Romania

The following players represented Romania.[16]

South Africa

The following players represented South Africa.[17]

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union entered a squad of 13 players. They scored 38 goals but only four scorers are known.[18]

Head coach: Vadim Kuznetsov and Ivan Dmitriev

Pos.	Player	DoB	Age	Caps	Club	Tournament games	Tournament goals
	Vadim Bubok	1926		?	? Leningrad	0	0
GK	Boris Goykhman	28 April 1919	33	?	VVS MVO Moscow	9	?
	Lev Kokorin	1918		?	VMS Leningrad	5	?
GK	Igor Libel	1914		?	VMS Leningrad	0	0
	Aleksandr Liferenko	1930		?	CDSA Moscow	8	?
	P'et're Mshveniyeradze	24 March 1929	23	?	VVS MVO Moscow	9	1
	Valentin Prokopov	10 June 1929	23	?	CDSA Moscow	9	2
	Nikolay Prostyakov			?	VVS MVO Moscow	0	0
	Yevgeny Semyonov	1920		?	VVS MVO Moscow	9	?
	Yury Shlyapin	11 February 1932	20	?	Dinamo Moscow	5	?
	Yury Teplov	1931		?	Torpedo Moscow	6	?
	Vitaly Ushakov	1920		?	Torpedo Moscow	1	?
	Anatoly Yegorov	1922		?	VVS MVO Moscow	2	1

Spain

The following players represented Spain.[19]

Sweden

The following players represented Sweden.[20]

United States

The United States entered a squad of eleven players. They scored 35 goals but only 19 scorers are known.[21]

Head coach: Urho Saari (coach); John Curran (manager)

Pos.	Player	DoB	Age	Caps	Club	Tournament games	Tournament goals
GK	Harry Bisbey	10 May 1931	21	?	U.S. Coast Guard	9	?
	Marvin Burns	6 July 1928	24	?	Lynwood Swim Club	5	1
	Norman Dornblaser	4 November 1933	18	?	El Segundo Swim Club	7	1
	Robert Hughes	15 December 1930	21	?	University of Southern California	9	6
	Edward Jaworski	11 March 1926	26	?	New York Athletic Club	8	?
	Robert Koehler			?		0	0
	William Kooistra	26 August 1926	25	?	Illinois Athletic Club	7	7
	Norman Lake	8 December 1932	19	?	El Segundo Swim Club	2	?
	James Norris	7 July 1930	22	?	El Segundo Swim Club	8	?
	John Spargo	3 June 1931	21	?	U.S. Air Force	5	4
	Peter Stange	28 February 1931	21	?	El Segundo Swim Club	3	?

Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia entered a squad of eleven players. They scored 44 goals but only four scorers are known.[22]

Head coach:

Pos.	Player	DoB	Age	Caps	Club	Tournament games	Tournament goals
	Juraj Amšel	1924		?	HAVK Mladost	0	0
	Veljko Bakašun	14 June 1920	32	?	Jadran Split	6	?
	Marko Brainović	17 July 1920	32	?	Jadran Split	3	?
	Vladimir Ivković	25 July 1929	23	?	VK Jug Dubrovnik	9	?
	Zdravko Ježić	17 August 1931	20	?	HAVK Mladost	2	?
GK	Zdravko-Ćiro Kovačić	6 July 1925	27	?	Primorj Rijeka	9	?
	Ivo Kurtini	23 June 1922	30	?	Primorj Rijeka	9	4
	Lovro Radonjić	26 November 1925	26	?	Mornar Split	9	?
	Dragoslav D. Šiljak	1933	19	?		0	0
	Ivo Štakula	25 February 1923	29	?	VK Jug Dubrovnik	9	?
	Boško Vuksanović	4 January 1928	24	?	VK Partizan	6	?

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External links

Olympic Report
Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 3 November 2008.

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