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Water Polo, Men

Date20 – 28 July 1996
StatusOlympic
LocationGeorgia Tech Aquatic Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Participants153 from 12 countries
FormatRound-robin pools advanced teams to classification matches.

Hungary and Italy were the heavy favorites. Since Barcelona they had met in the final of every major event, save one. Italy defeated Hungary at the 1993 World Cup and European Championships, and the 1995 European Championships. Hungary defeated Italy in the final of the 1995 World Cup. Italy also won the 1994 World Championship, where Hungary slumped and only placed fifth. The two teams were drawn in opposite groups in Barcelona and both won all their matches to advance to the quarter-finals. There Hungary defeated Greece and Italy defeated Russia to move onto the semis, with Spain and Croatia also advancing. One quarter-final saw Croatia meet their arch-rivals, Serbia & Montenegro, or effectively what remained of Yugoslavia. The Croats hated the Serbs for what they had done to their country in the early 1990s, and gained a measure of revenge by defeating them, 8-6.

But somebody had forgotten to remind Spain and Croatia that Hungary and Italy were supposed to meet in the final. Spain faced Hungary, which had beaten them 8-7 in group play, but in the semi-finals, Spain eliminated the Magyars, 7-6. In the other semi-final, the score was the same, Croatia moving on to the final.

The final was close, with Croatia leading at halftime, 3-1, only to see Spain tie the match, 5-5, after the third period. In the final period, Spain scored twice to win the gold medal, 7-5. At the end of the match the ball was in the hands of their greatest player, Manuel Estiarte, who finally won a gold medal in his fifth Olympics. Italy won the bronze medal, defeating Hungary in overtime, 20-18.

PosNumberTeamNOC
1SpainESPGold
Goalkeeper1Jesús Miguel Rollán
2José María Abarca
3Sergio Pedrerol
5Manuel Estiarte
6Daniel Ballart
7Jordi Payá
8Iván Moro
9Jordi Sans
10Salvador Gómez
11Miki Oca
12Carles Sanz
13Pedro García
Ángel Luis Andreo DNS
CoachJuan Jané
2CroatiaCROSilver
Goalkeeper1Siniša Školneković
2Zdeslav Vrdoljak
3Joško Kreković
4Dubravko Šimenc
5Ognjen Kržić
6Ratko Štritof
7Renato Vrbičić
8Damir Glavan
9Tino Vegar
10Perica Bukić
11Igor Hinić
13Vjekoslav Kobešćak
12Maro Balić DNS
CoachBruno Silić
3ItalyITABronze
Goalkeeper1Francesco Attolico
2Francesco Postiglione
3Alessandro Bovo
4Fabio Bencivenga
5Alessandro Calcaterra
6Roberto Calcaterra
7Luca Giustolisi
8Alberto Angelini
9Amedeo Pomilio
Goalkeeper10Marco Gerini
11Leonardo Sottani
12Carlo Silipo
13Alberto Ghibellini
CoachRatko Rudić
4HungaryHUN
Goalkeeper1Zoltán Kósz
2Frank Tóth
3Attila Monostori
4Zsolt Varga
5Tamás Kásás
6László Tóth
7Tamás Dala
8Tibor Benedek
9Rajmund Fodor
10Balázs Vincze
11András Gyöngyösi
Goalkeeper12Péter Kuna
13Zsolt Németh
CoachGyörgy Horkai
5Russian FederationRUS
Goalkeeper1Nikolay Maksimov
2Aleksey Panfili
3Sergey Yevstigneyev
4Nikolay Kozlov
5Sergey Garbuzov
6Aleksandr Yeryshov
7Dmitry Apanasenko
8Sergey Ivlev
9Dmitry Gorshkov
10Ilya Konstantinov
11Yury Smolovoy
12Vladimir Karabutov
Goalkeeper13Dmitry Dugin
CoachAleksandr Kabanov
6GreeceGRE
Goalkeeper1Gerasimos Voltyrakis
2Filippos Kaiafas
3Theodoros Chatzitheodorou
4Konstantinos Loudis
5Georgios Mavrotas
6Anastasios Papanastasiou
7Georgios Psychos
8Theodoros Kalakonas
9Georgios Afroudakis
10Theodoros Lorantos
11Thomas Chatzis
12Makis Georgaras
Goalkeeper13Vangelis Patras
CoachKyriakos Iosifidis
7United StatesUSA
Goalkeeper1Chris Duplanty
Goalkeeper2Dan Hackett
3Jeremy Laster
4Kyle Kopp
5Chris Oeding
6Gavin Arroyo
7Alex Rousseau
8Rick McNair
9Kirk Everist
10Chris Humbert
11Mike Evans
12Troy Barnhart, Jr.
13Wolf Wigo
CoachRichard Corso
8YugoslaviaSCG
Goalkeeper1Aleksandar Šoštar
2Petar Trbojević
3Vaso Subotić
4Predrag Zimonjić
5Igor Milanović
6Aleksandar Šapić
7Mirko Vičević
8Veljko Uskoković
9Dejan Savić
10Viktor Jelenić
11Vlada Vujasinović
12Ranko Perović
Goalkeeper13Milan Tadić
CoachDragan Andrić
9GermanyGER
Goalkeeper1Ingo Borgmann
2Torsten Dresel
3Piotr Bukowski
4Davor Erjavec
5Michael Ilgner
6Dirk Klingenberg
7Raúl de la Peña
8Uwe Sterzik
9Daniel Voß
10René Reimann
11Lars Tomanek
12Jörg Dresel
13Oliver Dahler
CoachNicolae Firoiu
10NetherlandsNED
Goalkeeper1Arie van de Bunt
2Wyco de Vries
3Koos Issard
4Harry van der Meer
5Arno Havenga
6Joeri Stoffels
7Bas de Jong
8Marco Kunz
9Eelco Uri
10Hans Nieuwenburg
12Gert de Groot
13Niels van der Kolk
12Wim Vermeulen DNS
CoachHans van Zeeland
11RomaniaROU
Goalkeeper1Gelu Lisac
Goalkeeper2Robert Dinu
3Liviu Totolici
4Florin Bonca
5Radu Sabău
6Nicolae Fulgeanu
7Vlad Hagiu
8Stefanos-Petros Santa
9Dinel Stemate
10Istvan Moldvai
11Bogdan Rath
12Daniel Radu
13Edward Andrei
CoachViorel Rus
12UkraineUKR
Goalkeeper1Oleksiy Yehorov
2Dmytro Andriyev
3Dmitry Stratan
Goalkeeper4Oleh Volodymyrov
5Oleksandr Potulnytskyi
6Anatoliy Solodun
7Vadym Skuratov
8Vitaliy Khalchaytskyi
9Vadym Kebalo
10Andriy Kovalenko
11V'iacheslav Kostanda
12Ihor Horbach
13Vadym Rozhdestvenskyi
CoachYuriy Drozin

Preliminary Round

Date20 – 24 July 1996

Group A

Date20 – 24 July 1996
FormatRound-robin pool.
PosCompetitorsNOCWinsTiesLossesPointsGoals
1HungaryHUN5001047-38
2YugoslaviaSCG311746-44
3SpainESP302639-33
4Russian FederationRUS212542-38
5GermanyGER104236-45
6NetherlandsNED005036-48
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #120 Jul 11:00YugoslaviaSCG11 – 8NetherlandsNED
Match #220 Jul 12:40HungaryHUN8 – 7Russian FederationRUS
Match #320 Jul 16:40SpainESP9 – 3GermanyGER
Match #421 Jul 11:00Russian FederationRUS9 – 9YugoslaviaSCG
Match #521 Jul 12:40HungaryHUN9 – 8GermanyGER
Match #621 Jul 16:40SpainESP8 – 7NetherlandsNED
Match #722 Jul 11:00Russian FederationRUS10 – 8GermanyGER
Match #822 Jul 12:40YugoslaviaSCG9 – 7SpainESP
Match #922 Jul 16:40HungaryHUN10 – 8NetherlandsNED
Match #1023 Jul 11:00YugoslaviaSCG9 – 8GermanyGER
Match #1123 Jul 12:40Russian FederationRUS10 – 5NetherlandsNED
Match #1223 Jul 16:40HungaryHUN8 – 7SpainESP
Match #1324 Jul 11:00HungaryHUN12 – 8YugoslaviaSCG
Match #1424 Jul 12:40SpainESP8 – 6Russian FederationRUS
Match #1524 Jul 16:40GermanyGER9 – 8NetherlandsNED

Group B

Date20 – 24 July 1996
FormatRound-robin pool.
PosCompetitorsNOCWinsTiesLossesPointsGoals
1ItalyITA5001048-38
2United StatesUSA401845-37
3CroatiaCRO302651-39
4GreeceGRE203437-38
5RomaniaROU014131-45
6UkraineUKR014133-48
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #120 Jul 15:00CroatiaCRO8 – 5GreeceGRE
Match #220 Jul 18:20RomaniaROU6 – 6UkraineUKR
Match #320 Jul 22:00ItalyITA10 – 7United StatesUSA
Match #421 Jul 15:00CroatiaCRO11 – 6RomaniaROU
Match #521 Jul 18:20ItalyITA8 – 6UkraineUKR
Match #621 Jul 22:00United StatesUSA9 – 7GreeceGRE
Match #722 Jul 15:00GreeceGRE8 – 5RomaniaROU
Match #822 Jul 18:20ItalyITA10 – 8CroatiaCRO
Match #922 Jul 22:00United StatesUSA9 – 7UkraineUKR
Match #1023 Jul 15:00ItalyITA10 – 8GreeceGRE
Match #1123 Jul 18:20CroatiaCRO16 – 8UkraineUKR
Match #1223 Jul 22:00United StatesUSA10 – 5RomaniaROU
Match #1324 Jul 15:00GreeceGRE9 – 6UkraineUKR
Match #1424 Jul 18:20ItalyITA10 – 9RomaniaROU
Match #1524 Jul 22:00United StatesUSA10 – 8CroatiaCRO

Quarter-Finals

Date26 July 1996
FormatSingle-elimination.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #126 Jul 15:00HungaryHUN12 – 8GreeceGRE
Match #226 Jul 16:40CroatiaCRO8 – 6YugoslaviaSCG
Match #326 Jul 18:20SpainESP5 – 4United StatesUSA
Match #426 Jul 22:10ItalyITA11 – 9Russian FederationRUS

Semi-Finals

Date27 July 1996
FormatSingle-elimination.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #127 Jul 16:40CroatiaCRO7 – 6ItalyITA
Match #227 Jul 19:00SpainESP7 – 6HungaryHUN

Classification Round 5-8

Date27 July 1996
FormatClassification matches.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #127 Jul 15:00GreeceGRE7 – 6United StatesUSA
Match #227 Jul 20:40Russian FederationRUS16 – 15YugoslaviaSCG

Classification Round 9-12

Date26 – 28 July 1996
FormatClassification matches.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #126 Jul 11:00GermanyGER10 – 4UkraineUKR
Match #226 Jul 12:40NetherlandsNED10 – 8RomaniaROU
Match #327 Jul 11:00GermanyGER9 – 6NetherlandsNED
Match #427 Jul 12:40RomaniaROU11 – 8UkraineUKR
Match #528 Jul 8:00NetherlandsNED9 – 9UkraineUKR
Match #628 Jul 9:30GermanyGER10 – 6RomaniaROU

Final Round

Date28 July 1996
FormatMedal round.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match 1/228 Jul 16:30SpainESP7 – 5CroatiaCRO
Match 3/428 Jul 15:00ItalyITA20 – 18HungaryHUN
Match 5/628 Jul 13:00Russian FederationRUS10 – 8GreeceGRE
Match 7/828 Jul 11:30United StatesUSA12 – 8YugoslaviaSCG