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)	Filip Filipović Guillermo Molina (19 goals)
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Water polo at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Qualification
men  women
Tournaments
men  women
Rosters
men  women

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

G	Group stage	¼	Quarter-finals	½	Semi-finals	B	Bronze medal match	F	Final

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

Qualification	Date	Host	Berths	Qualified
Host nation	2 October 2009	Copenhagen	1	Brazil
2015 FINA World League	23–28 June 2015	Bergamo	1	Serbia
2015 Pan American Games	7–15 July 2015	Toronto	1	United States
2015 FINA World Championships	27 July – 8 August 2015	Kazan	2	Croatia
				Greece
Oceanian Continental Selection[2]	19 October 2015	Perth	1	Australia
2015 Asian Championships	16–20 December 2015	Foshan	1	Japan
2016 European Championships	10–23 January 2016	Belgrade	1	Montenegro
World Qualification Tournament	3–10 April 2016	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]

• German Moller
• Daniel Flahive
• Mark Koganov
• Fabio Toffoli
• Marie-Claude Deslières
• Ni Shi Wei
• Nenad Peris
• Hatem Gaber
• Benjamin Mercier
• Georgios Stavridis
• Péter Molnár
• Masoud Rezvani
• Filippo Gomez
• Tadao Tahara
• Stanko Ivanovski
• Diana Dutilh-Dumas
• Radosław Koryzna
• Adrian Alexandrescu
• Sergey Naumov
• Vojin Putniković
• Boris Margeta
• Dion Willis
• Francesc Buch
• 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	13–13	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	8–7	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	8–7	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

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8 August 2016 09:00	Report	Serbia	9–9	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	9–9	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	8–16	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

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10 August 2016 09:00	Report	Australia	8–6	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	8–8	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	6–5	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

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12 August 2016 09:00	Report	Hungary	17–7	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	9–4	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	10–8	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

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14 August 2016 14:10	Report	Australia	12–7	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	12–8	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	6–10	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	5–7	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	8–9	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	4–7	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

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8 August 2016 10:20	Report	Italy	11–8	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	9–10	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	8–7	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

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10 August 2016 11:40	Report	France	3–6	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	5–6	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	9–4	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

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12 August 2016 10:20	Report	Croatia	10–7	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	5–8	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	10–4	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

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14 August 2016 12:50	Report	Montenegro	9–9	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	10–7	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	9–8	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-finals				Semi-finals				Gold medal
	16 August
	Hungary	9 (2)
					18 August
	Montenegro (pen.)	9 (4)
					Montenegro	8
	16 August
					Croatia	12
	Brazil	6
									20 August
	Croatia	10
									Croatia	7
	16 August
									Serbia	11
	Greece	5
					18 August
	Italy	9
					Italy	8
	16 August
					Serbia	10			Bronze medal
	Serbia	10
									20 August
	Spain	7
									Montenegro	10
									Italy	12

5th place bracket

	5–8th place semifinals				Fifth place
	18 August
	Hungary	13
					20 August
	Brazil	4
					Hungary	12
	18 August
					Greece	10
	Greece	9
	Spain	7
					Seventh place
					20 August
					Brazil	8
					Spain	9

Quarter-finals

16 August 2016 11:00	Report	Hungary	9–9	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

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16 August 2016 12:20	Report	Serbia	10–7	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

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16 August 2016 15:10	Report	Brazil	6–10	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

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16 August 2016 16:30	Report	Greece	5–9	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	13–4	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

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18 August 2016 15:10	Report	Greece	9–7	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	8–12	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

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18 August 2016 16:30	Report	Italy	8–10	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	8–9	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	12–10	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	10–12	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	7–11	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

Final ranking Rank Team  Serbia  Croatia  Italy 4  Montenegro 5  Hungary 6  Greece 7  Spain 8  Brazil 9  Australia 10  United States 11  France 12  Japan

All-star team Most valuable player: Filip Filipović Goalkeeper: Marko Bijač Christian Presciutti Sandro Sukno Darko Brguljan Guillermo Molina Slobodan Nikić Filip Filipović Source: waterpolo.hu

Top goalscorers Rank Name Goals Shots % 1 Filip Filipović 19 44 43 Guillermo Molina 50 38 3 Sandro Sukno 17 45 38 4 Darko Brguljan 15 32 47 5 Ioannis Fountoulis 14 40 35 Márton Vámos 30 47 Dénes Varga 35 40 Pietro Figlioli 38 37 Christian Presciutti 31 45 Koji Takei 42 33 Source: Rio2016

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

1. "Water Polo, Men's Final - And finally: it's Serbia!". fina.org. 20 August 2016.
2. "Breakdown of anticipated athletes by sport". Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
3. "WP Olympic Games Qualification Tournament is ready". federnuoto.it. 1 April 2016.
4. "RIO 2016 - Water polo - Teams & Groups". fina.org. 10 April 2016.
5. Referees