Water polo at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

Men's water polo
at the XXXI Olympiad
Tournament details
Host country  Brazil
Dates 6–20 August 2016
Teams 12 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s) 2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions  Serbia (1st title)
Runner-up  Croatia
Third place  Italy
Fourth place  Montenegro
Tournament statistics
Matches 42
Goals scored 704 (16.76 per match)
Top scorer(s) Serbia Filip Filipović
Spain Guillermo Molina
(19 goals)
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The men's tournament of Water polo at the 2016 Summer Olympics at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, began on 6 August and ended on 20 August 2016. Games were held at the Maria Lenk Aquatic Center and the Olympic Aquatics Stadium.

Serbia won the gold medal by defeating Croatia in the final. Bronze was won by Italy after beating Montenegro.[1]


Competition schedule

GGroup stage ¼Quarter-finals ½Semi-finals BBronze medal match FFinal
Sat 6 Sun 7 Mon 8 Tue 9 Wed 10 Thu 11 Fri 12 Sat 13 Sun 14 Mon 15 Tue 16 Wed 17 Thu 18 Fri 19 Sat 20
G G G G G ¼ ½ B F

Qualification

QualificationDateHostBerthsQualified
Host nation 2 October 2009 Denmark Copenhagen 1 Brazil
2015 FINA World League 23–28 June 2015 Italy Bergamo 1  Serbia
2015 Pan American Games 7–15 July 2015 Canada Toronto 1  United States
2015 FINA World Championships 27 July – 8 August 2015 Russia Kazan 2  Croatia
 Greece
Oceanian Continental Selection[2] 19 October 2015 Australia Perth 1  Australia
2015 Asian Championships 16–20 December 2015 China Foshan 1  Japan
2016 European Championships 10–23 January 2016 Serbia Belgrade 1  Montenegro
World Qualification Tournament 3–10 April 2016 Italy Trieste 4  Hungary
 Italy
 Spain
 France
Total 12

Draw

The draw was held on 10 April 2016.[3]

Teams from twelve nations compete in the tournament and were seeded into two groups for the preliminary round. The top four teams advance to the quarterfinals.

Seeding

The seeding was announced on 10 April 2016.[4]

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4 Pot 5 Pot 6
 Serbia
 Croatia
 Greece
 Montenegro
 United States
 Australia
 France
 Japan
 Hungary
 Italy
 Spain
 Brazil

Referees

The following referees were selected for the tournament.[5]

  • Argentina German Moller
  • Australia Daniel Flahive
  • Azerbaijan Mark Koganov
  • Brazil Fabio Toffoli
  • Canada Marie-Claude Deslières
  • China Ni Shi Wei
  • Croatia Nenad Peris
  • Egypt Hatem Gaber
  • France Benjamin Mercier
  • Greece Georgios Stavridis
  • Hungary Péter Molnár
  • Iran Masoud Rezvani
  • Italy Filippo Gomez
  • Japan Tadao Tahara
  • Montenegro Stanko Ivanovski
  • Netherlands Diana Dutilh-Dumas
  • Poland Radosław Koryzna
  • Romania Adrian Alexandrescu
  • Russia Sergey Naumov
  • Serbia Vojin Putniković
  • Slovenia Boris Margeta
  • South Africa Dion Willis
  • Spain Francesc Buch
  • United States Joseph Peila

Group stage

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Hungary 5 2 3 0 57 43 +14 7 Quarter-finals
2  Greece 5 2 2 1 41 40 +1 6
3  Brazil (H) 5 3 0 2 40 39 +1 6
4  Serbia 5 2 2 1 49 44 +5 6
5  Australia 5 2 1 2 44 40 +4 5
6  Japan 5 0 0 5 36 61 25 0
Source: Rio2016
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference.
(H) Host.
6 August 2016
09:00
Report Serbia  1313  Hungary Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU), Radosław Koryzna (POL)
Score by quarters: 3–5, 3–4, 3–2, 4–2
Filipović 3 Goals Hosnyánszky 3
6 August 2016
13:00
Report Greece  87  Japan Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Sergey Naumov (RUS), Stanko Ivanovski (MNE)
Score by quarters: 2–2, 2–1, 0–4, 4–0
Vlachopoulos 3 Goals three players 2
6 August 2016
20:50
Report Brazil  87  Australia Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Filippo Gomez (ITA), Francesc Buch (ESP)
Score by quarters: 3–2, 2–1, 2–2, 1–2
Delgado 3 Goals Campbell, Cotterill 2

8 August 2016
09:00
Report Serbia  99  Greece Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Mark Koganov (AZE), Joseph Peila (USA)
Score by quarters: 1–2, 0–2, 4–3, 4–2
Filipović 2 Goals Fountoulis 4
8 August 2016
13:00
Report Hungary  99  Australia Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Boris Margeta (SLO), Filippo Gomez (ITA))
Score by quarters: 4–3, 2–2, 1–3, 2–1
three players 2 Goals Campbell 4
8 August 2016
19:30
Report Japan  816  Brazil Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Nenad Peris (CRO), Francesc Buch (ESP)
Score by quarters: 2–5, 1–3, 4–4, 1–4
three players 2 Goals Vrlić 5

10 August 2016
09:00
Report Australia  86  Japan Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Francesc Buch (ESP), Joseph Peila (USA)
Score by quarters: 1–2, 2–1, 3–2, 2–1
Kayes 4 Goals Okawa, Takei 2
10 August 2016
10:20
Report Greece  88  Hungary Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Nenad Peris (CRO), Mark Koganov (AZE)
Score by quarters: 1–2, 1–1, 4–2, 2–3
Vlachopoulos 3 Goals Hárai 3
10 August 2016
19:30
Report Brazil  65  Serbia Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Benjamin Mercier (FRA), Ni Shi Wei (CHN)
Score by quarters: 0–2, 3–1, 2–0, 1–2
Vrlić 2 Goals five players 1

12 August 2016
09:00
Report Hungary  177  Japan Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Stanko Ivanovski (MKD), Masoud Rezvani (IRI)
Score by quarters: 5–1, 6–2, 2–2, 4–2
Kis 5 Goals Takei 3
12 August 2016
19:30
Report Greece  94  Brazil Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Boris Margate (SLO), Sergey Naumov (RUS)
Score by quarters: 3–1, 1–1, 3–2, 2–0
three players 2 Goals Silva 2
12 August 2016
22:10
Report Serbia  108  Australia Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU), Francesc Buch (ESP)
Score by quarters: 2–2, 2–3, 2–1, 4–2
three players 2 Goals Cotterill 2

14 August 2016
14:10
Report Australia  127  Greece Olympic Aquatics Stadium, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Filippo Gomez (ITA), Joseph Peila (USA)
Score by quarters: 5–3, 5–1, 0–1, 2–2
Cotterill, Howden 3 Goals Fountoulis 3
14 August 2016
19:30
Report Serbia  128  Japan Olympic Aquatics Stadium, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Nenad Peris (CRO), Benjamin Mercier (FRA)
Score by quarters: 2–5, 3–0, 4–2, 3–1
Filipović 6 Goals Takei 5
14 August 2016
20:50
Report Brazil  610  Hungary Olympic Aquatics Stadium, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Francesc Buch (ESP), Stanko Ivanovski (MNE)
Score by quarters: 0–3, 1–2, 3–3, 2–2
Gomes, Perrone 2 Goals three players 2

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Spain 5 3 1 1 46 35 +11 7 Quarter-finals
2  Croatia 5 3 0 2 37 37 0 6
3  Italy 5 3 0 2 40 41 1 6
4  Montenegro 5 2 1 2 36 32 +4 5
5  United States 5 2 0 3 35 35 0 4
6  France 5 1 0 4 28 42 14 2
Source: Rio2016
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference.
6 August 2016
10:20
Report United States  57  Croatia Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Boris Margeta (SLO), Daniel Flahive (AUS)
Score by quarters: 2–2, 1–1, 1–2, 1–2
Azevedo 2 Goals Joković, Šetka 2
6 August 2016
11:40
Report Spain  89  Italy Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Vojin Putniković (SRB), Georgios Stavridis (GRE)
Score by quarters: 3–2, 2–1, 1–2, 2–4
Molina 4 Goals Figlioli, Presciutti 3
6 August 2016
19:30
Report France  47  Montenegro Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Mark Koganov (AZE), Péter Molnár (HUN)
Score by quarters: 0–2, 0–3, 1–0, 3–2
four players 1 Goals Radović 3

8 August 2016
10:20
Report Italy  118  France Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Radosław Koryzna (POL), Sergey Naumov (RUS)
Score by quarters: 4–3, 4–1, 1–2, 2–2
Aicardi 4 Goals three players 2
8 August 2016
11:40
Report United States  910  Spain Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU), Péter Molnár (HUN)
Score by quarters: 2–4, 3–1, 2–3, 2–2
Bonanni 4 Goals Echenique 3
8 August 2016
20:50
Report Croatia  87  Montenegro Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Georgios Stavridis (GRE), Daniel Flahive (AUS)
Score by quarters: 2–2, 2–1, 1–2, 3–2
three players 2 Goals Brguljan, Janović 2

10 August 2016
11:40
Report France  36  United States Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
German Moller (ARG), Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU)
Score by quarters: 1–1, 0–4, 0–0, 2–1
three players 1 Goals Samuels 3
10 August 2016
13:00
Report Montenegro  56  Italy Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Péter Molnár (HUN), Georgios Stavridis (GRE)
Score by quarters: 1–2, 1–1, 0–1, 3–2
Brguljan 2 Goals Di Fulvio 3
10 August 2016
20:50
Report Spain  94  Croatia Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Boris Margeta (SLO), Radosław Koryzna (POL)
Score by quarters: 2–0, 2–1, 1–2, 4–1
Echenique 4 Goals four players 1

12 August 2016
10:20
Report Croatia  107  Italy Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Mark Koganov (AZE), Daniel Flahive (AUS)
Score by quarters: 1–1, 4–3, 3–2, 2–1
Sukno 5 Goals Gallo 2
12 August 2016
11:40
Report United States  58  Montenegro Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Radosław Koryzna (POL), Georgios Stavridis (GRE)
Score by quarters: 1–2, 0–0, 2–2, 2–4
Samuels 2 Goals Da. Brguljan 2
12 August 2016
20:50
Report Spain  104  France Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Fabio Toffoli (BRA), Péter Molnár (HUN)
Score by quarters: 3–1, 3–0, 1–1, 3-2
Echenique 3 Goals Crousillat 2

14 August 2016
12:50
Report Montenegro  99  Spain Olympic Aquatics Stadium, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Sergey Naumov (RUS), Radosław Koryzna (POL)
Score by quarters: 2–2, 3–2, 2–4, 2–1
three players 2 Goals Molina 2
14 August 2016
15:30
Report United States  107  Italy Olympic Aquatics Stadium, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Boris Margeta (SLO), Vojin Putniković (SRB)
Score by quarters: 2–4, 3–2, 3–1, 2–0
four players 2 Goals Di Fulvio, Figlioli 2
14 August 2016
16:50
Report France  98  Croatia Olympic Aquatics Stadium, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Ni Shi Wei (CHN), Hatem Gaber (EGY)
Score by quarters: 3–2, 3–3, 2–1, 1–2
Marzouki 3 Goals Sukno 3

Knockout stage

Bracket

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsGold medal
 
          
 
16 August
 
 
 Hungary9 (2)
 
18 August
 
 Montenegro (pen.)9 (4)
 
 Montenegro8
 
16 August
 
 Croatia12
 
 Brazil6
 
20 August
 
 Croatia10
 
 Croatia7
 
16 August
 
 Serbia11
 
 Greece5
 
18 August
 
 Italy9
 
 Italy8
 
16 August
 
 Serbia10 Bronze medal
 
 Serbia10
 
20 August
 
 Spain7
 
 Montenegro10
 
 
 Italy12
 
5th place bracket
 
5–8th place semifinalsFifth place
 
      
 
18 August
 
 
 Hungary13
 
20 August
 
 Brazil4
 
 Hungary12
 
18 August
 
 Greece10
 
 Greece9
 
 
 Spain7
 
Seventh place
 
 
20 August
 
 
 Brazil8
 
 
 Spain9

Quarter-finals

16 August 2016
11:00
Report Hungary  99  Montenegro Olympic Aquatics Stadium, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Mark Koganov (AZE), Joseph Peila (USA)
Score by quarters: 1–2, 2–3, 3–3, 3–1  PSO: 2–4
Erdélyi, Vámos 3 Goals Ivović 3

16 August 2016
12:20
Report Serbia  107  Spain Olympic Aquatics Stadium, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Radosław Koryzna (POL), Daniel Flahive (AUS)
Score by quarters: 3–1, 4–2, 0–2, 3–2
Mandić 4 Goals Molina 3

16 August 2016
15:10
Report Brazil  610  Croatia Olympic Aquatics Stadium, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU), Benjamin Mercier (FRA)
Score by quarters: 2–3, 1–4, 3–1, 0–2
Gomes 3 Goals García, Joković 3

16 August 2016
16:30
Report Greece  59  Italy Olympic Aquatics Stadium, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Sergey Naumov (RUS), Boris Margeta (SLO)
Score by quarters: 0–2, 2–2, 1–2, 2–3
Fountoulis, Mourikis 2 Goals Figlioli 3

5–8th place semifinals

18 August 2016
11:00
Report Hungary  134  Brazil Olympic Aquatics Stadium, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Filippo Gomez (ITA), Masoud Rezvani (IRI)
Score by quarters: 4–1, 3–0, 4–3, 2–0
Erdélyi 4 Goals Baches 2

18 August 2016
15:10
Report Greece  97  Spain Olympic Aquatics Stadium, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Boris Margeta (SLO), Nenad Peris (CRO)
Score by quarters: 1–0, 2–1, 4–3, 2–3
Afroudakis, Mourikis 2 Goals Molina 4

Semi-finals

18 August 2016
12:20
Report Montenegro  812  Croatia Olympic Aquatics Stadium, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU), Joseph Peila (USA)
Score by quarters: 3–4, 2–3, 1–1, 2–4
Brguljan, Ivović 3 Goals Bušlje 4

18 August 2016
16:30
Report Italy  810  Serbia Olympic Aquatics Stadium, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Georgios Stavridis (GRE), Daniel Flahive (AUS)
Score by quarters: 0–3, 2–3, 0–1, 6–3
three players 2 Goals three players 2

Seventh place game

20 August 2016
11:40
Report Brazil  89  Spain Olympic Aquatics Stadium, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Vojin Putniković (SRB), Stanko Ivanovski (MNE)
Score by quarters: 1–3, 2–1, 1–2, 4–3
three players 2 Goals three players 2

Fifth place game

20 August 2016
16:30
Report Hungary  1210  Greece Olympic Aquatics Stadium, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Mark Koganov (AZE), Joseph Peila (USA)
Score by quarters: 2–1, 4–4, 3–3, 3–2
Kis, Zalánki 3 Goals four players 2

Bronze medal game

20 August 2016
13:00
Report Montenegro  1012  Italy Olympic Aquatics Stadium, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Boris Margeta (SLO), Sergey Naumov (RUS)
Score by quarters: 1–2, 3–3, 2–4, 4–3
Janović 3 Goals C. Presciutti 4

Gold medal game

20 August 2016
17:50
Report Croatia  711  Serbia Olympic Aquatics Stadium, Rio de Janeiro
Referees:
Georgios Stavridis (GRE), Péter Molnár (HUN)
Score by quarters: 2–3, 1–3, 2–3, 2–2
Sukno 3 Goals Mandić 4

Ranking and statistics

Top goalscorers

Rank Name Goals Shots %
1 Serbia Filip Filipović 19 44 43
Spain Guillermo Molina 50 38
3 Croatia Sandro Sukno 17 45 38
4 Montenegro Darko Brguljan 15 32 47
5 Greece Ioannis Fountoulis 14 40 35
Hungary Márton Vámos 30 47
Hungary Dénes Varga 35 40
Italy Pietro Figlioli 38 37
Italy Christian Presciutti 31 45
Japan Koji Takei 42 33

Source: Rio2016

Top goalkeepers

Rank Name % Saves Shots
1 Serbia Gojko Pijetlović 67 14 21
2 Spain Iñaki Aguilar 62 16 26
3 United States McQuin Baron 59 19 23
4 Australia Lea Yanitsas 58 57 98
5 United States Merrill Moses 58 30 52
6 Australia Joel Dennerley 57 29 51
7 Hungary Viktor Nagy 57 67 118
Italy Marco Del Lungo 21 37
9 Australia James Stanton 55 22 40
10 Spain Daniel López 55 63 115

Source: Rio2016

Medalists

Gold Silver Bronze
 Serbia (SRB)

Gojko Pijetlović
Dušan Mandić
Živko Gocić
Sava Ranđelović
Miloš Ćuk
Duško Pijetlović
Slobodan Nikić
Milan Aleksić
Nikola Jakšić
Filip Filipović
Andrija Prlainović
Stefan Mitrović
Branislav Mitrović


Head coach: Dejan Savić

 Croatia (CRO)

Josip Pavić
Damir Burić
Antonio Petković
Luka Lončar
Maro Joković
Luka Bukić
Marko Macan
Andro Bušlje
Sandro Sukno
Ivan Krapić
Anđelo Šetka
Xavier García
Marko Bijač


Head coach: Ivica Tucak

 Italy (ITA)

Stefano Tempesti
Francesco Di Fulvio
Niccolò Gitto
Pietro Figlioli
Alessandro Velotto
Michael Bodegas
Andrea Fondelli
Valentino Gallo
Christian Presciutti
Nicholas Presciutti
Matteo Aicardi
Alessandro Nora
Marco Del Lungo


Head coach: Alessandro Campagna

References

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