Water polo at the 1968 Summer Olympics
The Water Polo Tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics was held from 14 to 25 October 1968, in Mexico City, Mexico.[1]
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| Venues | Francisco Márquez Olympic Pool | |||||||||
| Date | 14–26 October 1968 | |||||||||
| Competitors | 162 from 15 nations | |||||||||
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Teams
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While Australia had been accepted as one of the 16 teams, the Australian Olympic Committee, considering it a waste of money to send a team, did not endorse them. The players responded by paying their own way to travel to Mexico City, but after the AOC informed the organisers, the team were barred from competing.[2]
Squads
Preliminary round
Group A
| Team | Points | G | W | D | L | GF | GA | Diff | |
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| 1. |  |
12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 14 | +25 |
| 2. |  |
10 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 43 | 18 | +25 |
| 3. |  |
7 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 37 | 36 | +1 |
| 4. |  |
7 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 31 | 35 | –4 |
| 5. |  |
4 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 33 | 34 | –1 |
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1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 20 | 37 | –17 |
| 7. |  |
1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 22 | 51 | –29 |
- 14 October 1968
| United States |
10 – 5 | |
| Soviet Union |
11 – 4 | |
| West Germany |
5 – 3 | |
- 15 October 1968
| Cuba |
9 – 2 | |
- 16 October 1968
| Hungary |
6 – 4 | |
| United States |
10 – 7 |  |
- 17 October 1968
| Soviet Union |
6 – 3 | |
| Cuba |
6 – 6 | |
| Hungary |
7 – 1 | |
- 19 October 1968
| Soviet Union |
5 – 0 | |
| Hungary |
5 – 1 | |
| West Germany |
10 – 5 | |
- 20 October 1968
| Cuba |
7 – 6 | |
| Spain |
6 – 6 | |
| Hungary |
6 – 5 | |
- 21 October 1968
| Cuba |
4 – 3 | |
| Soviet Union |
8 – 3 | |
| Hungary |
8 – 2 | |
- 22 October 1968
| Soviet Union |
8 – 2 | |
| United States |
7 – 5 | |
| Hungary |
7 – 1 | |
Group B
| Team | Points | G | W | D | L | GF | GA | Diff | |
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| 1. |  |
13 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 48 | 21 | +27 |
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11 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 65 | 18 | +47 |
| 3. |  |
11 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 66 | 22 | +44 |
| 4. |  |
9 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 42 | 28 | +14 |
| 5. |  |
6 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 26 | 57 | –31 |
| 6. |  |
3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 27 | 56 | –29 |
| 7. |  |
2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 34 | 62 | –28 |
| 8. |  |
1 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 21 | 65 | –44 |
- 14 October 1968
| Netherlands |
9 – 5 | |
| Yugoslavia |
13 – 2 | |
| Italy |
9 – 2 | |
| Mexico |
4 – 12 | |
- 15 October 1968
| Japan |
8 – 7 | |
| Italy |
10 – 1 | |
| East Germany |
4 – 4 | |
- 16 October 1968
| Mexico |
1 – 8 | |
| Greece |
7 – 6 | |
| Italy |
5 – 4 | |
- 17 October 1968
| Mexico |
0 – 9 | |
| Netherlands |
9 – 1 | |
- 19 October 1968
| East Germany |
11 – 4 | |
| Japan |
7 – 4 | |
| Mexico |
5 – 10 | |
| Yugoslavia |
7 – 4 | |
- 20 October 1968
| Italy |
5 – 4 | |
| East Germany |
8 – 0 | |
| Mexico |
11 – 8 | |
| Netherlands |
6 – 3 | |
- 21 October 1968
| Mexico |
3 – 6 | |
| Yugoslavia |
11 – 1 | |
| Netherlands |
3 – 3 | |
| East Germany |
19 – 2 | |
- 22 October 1968
| Mexico |
3 – 3 | |
| Italy |
6 – 2 | |
| East Germany |
8 – 3 | |
| Yugoslavia |
17 – 2 | |
Classification round
- 24 October 1968 — 13th/15th place
| Brazil |
5 – 3 | |
- 24 October 1968 — 9th/12th place
| Mexico |
3 – 6 | |
| Spain |
5 – 0 | |
- 24 October 1968 — 5th/8th place
| East Germany |
8 – 2 | |
| United States |
6 – 3 | |
- 24 October 1968 — Semi Finals
| Yugoslavia |
8 – 6 | |
| Soviet Union |
8 – 5 | |
Final round
- 25 October 1968 — 13th place
| Brazil |
5 – 2 | |
- 25 October 1968 — 11th place
| Mexico |
5 – 4 | |
- 25 October 1968 — 9th place
| Spain |
7 – 5 | |
- 25 October 1968 — 7th place
| Netherlands |
8 – 5 | |
- 25 October 1968 — 5th place
| United States |
6 – 4 | |
- 25 October 1968 — Bronze Medal Match
| Hungary |
9 – 4 | |
- 25 October 1968 — Gold Medal Match
| Yugoslavia |
13 – 11 [aet] | |
Final ranking
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Medallists
| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
Ozren Bonačić Dejan Dabović Zdravko Hebel Zoran Janković Ronald Lopatni Uroš Marović Đorđe Perišić Miroslav Poljak Mirko Sandić Karlo Stipanić Ivo Trumbić Head Coach: Aleksandar Seifert |
Vadim Gulyaev Givi Chikvanaya Boris Grishin Aleksandr Dolgushin Aleksei Barkalov Yuri Grigorovsky Vladimir Semyonov Aleksandr Shidlovsky Vyacheslav Skok Leonid Osipov Oleg Bovin Head Coach: — |
András Bodnár Zoltán Dömötör László Felkai Ferenc Konrád János Konrád Mihály Mayer László Sárosi János Steinmetz Endre Molnár Dénes Pócsik István Szívós, Jr. Head Coach: Kálmán Markovits |
References
- "Water Polo at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
- Wallechinsky, David (1984). The Complete Book To The Olympics. England: Penguin Books. p. 425. ISBN 0140066322.
Sources
- PDF documents in the LA84 Foundation Digital Library:
- Official Report of the 1968 Olympic Games, v.3 (download, archive) (pp. 449–466, 811–826)
- Water polo on the Olympedia website
- Water polo on the Sports Reference website
- Water polo at the 1968 Summer Games (men's tournament) (archived)
External links
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