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Water Polo, Men

Date27 August – 4 September 1972
StatusOlympic
LocationDantebad, München / Schwimmhalle, Olympiapark, München
Participants176 from 16 countries
FormatRound-robin pools advanced teams to the round-robin final pool.

At the last four Olympics the top four teams had been Hungary, Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union, and Italy, although the order changed slightly, but Hungary had won three of the last four gold medals. These four teams all advanced to the final round, the biggest surprise coming in Group A, won by the United States with Yugoslavia second. West Germany (FRG) also advanced, placing second in Group B to Hungary. In the final pool, Hungary and the Soviet Union tied with 3 wins and 2 ties, as they tied in their head-on match, 3-3, with the Soviet Union winning their first water polo gold medal by goal differential. The United States won its fourth bronze medal in the sport, but its first since 1932, having also placed third in 1920 and 1924. The leading scorer in water polo in Munich was Cuban Carlos Sánchez with 18 goals.

PosNumberTeamNOC
1Soviet UnionURSGold
1Vadim Gulyayev
2Anatoly Akimov
3Aleksandr Dreval
4Aleksandr Dolgushin
5Vladimir Zhmudsky
6Aleksandr Kabanov
7Aleksey Barkalov
8Aleksandr Shidlovsky
9Nikolay Melnikov
10Leonid Osipov
11Vyacheslav Sobchenko
CoachAnatoly Blyumental
2HungaryHUNSilver
1Endre Molnár
2András Bodnár
3István Görgényi
4Zoltán Kásás
5Tamás Faragó
6László Sárosi
7István Szívós, Jr.
8István Magas
9Dénes Pócsik
10Ferenc Konrád
11Tibor Cservenyák
CoachBéla Rajki-Reich
3United StatesUSABronze
1Jim Slatton
2Stan Cole
3Russ Webb
4Barry Weitzenberg
5Gary Sheerer
6Bruce Bradley
7Peter Asch
8Jim Ferguson
9Steve Barnett
10John Parker
11Eric Lindroth
CoachMonte Nitzkowski
4West GermanyFRG
1Gerd Olbert
2Hermann Haverkamp
3Peter Teicher
4Kurt Küpper
5Günter Wolf
6Ingulf Nossek
7Ludger Weeke
8Kurt Schuhmann
9Jürgen Stiefel
10Hans Simon
11Hans Hoffmeister
CoachHans Schepers
5YugoslaviaYUG
1Karlo Stipanić
2Ratko Rudić
3Ozren Bonačić
4Uroš Marović
5Ronald Lopatny
6Zoran Janković
7Siniša Belamarić
8Dušan Antunović
9Đorđe Perišić
10Mirko Sandić
11Miloš Marković
CoachVlaho Orlić
6ItalyITA
1Alberto Alberani Samaritani
2Eraldo Pizzo
3Roldano Simeoni
4Mario Cevasco
5Alessandro Ghibellini
6Gianni De Magistris
7Guglielmo Marsili
8Silvio Baracchini
9Franco Lavoratori
10Sante Marsili
11Ferdinando Lignano
CoachMario Majoni
7NetherlandsNED
1Evert Kroon
2Hans Wouda
3Jan Evert Veer
4Hans Hoogveld
5Wim Hermsen
6Hans Parrel
7Ton Schmidt
8Mart Bras
9Ton Buunk
10Gijze Stroboer
11Wim van de Schilde
CoachHarry Vriend
8RomaniaROU
1Șerban Huber
2Bogdan Mihăilescu
3Gheorghe Zamfirescu
4Gruia Novac
5Dinu Popescu
6Claudiu Rusu
7Iosif Culineac
8Cornel Rusu
9Viorel Rus
10Radu Lazăr
11Cornel Frățilă
CoachAnatol Grințescu
9CubaCUB
1Óscar Periche
2David Rodríguez
3Jorge Rizo
4Guillermo Martínez Ginoris
5Orlando Cowley
6Eugenio Almenteros
7Carlos Sánchez
8Gerardo Rodríguez
9Osvaldo García
10Guillermo Cañete
11Jesús Pérez
CoachKároly Laky
10SpainESP
1Salvador Franch
2Juan Rubio
3Juan Sans
4Juan Jané
5Alfonso Cánovas
6Gabriel Soler
7Poncio Puigdevall
8Enrique Guardia
9José Padrós
10Gaspar Ventura
11Luis Bestit
CoachBandy Zolyomy
11BulgariaBUL
1Biser Naumov
2Ivan Kovachev
3Aleksandar Shpitser
4Toma Tomov
5Plamen Brankov
6Mladen Hristov
7Nedelcho Yordanov
8Vasil Tomov
9Andrey Konstantinov
10Matey Popov
11Lyubomir Runtov
CoachLyudmil Khadzhisotirov
12AustraliaAUS
1Michael Withers
2Tom Hoad
3David Woods
4Peter Montgomery
5Ian McLauchlain
6Robert Menzies
7David Neesham
8Les Nunn
9Nicky Barnes
10Leon Wiegard
11Bill Tilley
CoachRon Wooten
=13MexicoMEX
1Daniel Gómez
2Francisco García
3Maximiliano Aguilar
4Raúl Alanís
5Arturo Valencia
6Juan Manuel García
7Armando Fernández
8Alfredo Sauza
9Ricardo Chapa
10Víctor García
11Rafael Azpeitia
CoachKálmán Markovits
=13GreeceGRE
1Dimitrios Konstas
2Georgios Theodorakopoulos
3Evangelos Voultsos
4Kyriakos Iosifidis
5Dimitrios Kougevetopoulos
6Periklis Damaskos
7Thomas Karalogos
8Ioannis Karalogos
9Efstathios Sarantos
10Ioannis Palios
11Panagiotis Michalos
CoachLászló Sárosi, Sr.
=13JapanJPN
1Yukiharu Oshita
2Hirokatsu Kuwayama
3Toshio Takahashi
4Shuzo Yajima
5Hiroshi Hashimoto
6Koji Nakano
7Naoto Minegishi
8Tatsuo Jihira
9Takashi Kimura
10Yoshihiro Yasumi
11Toru Arase
CoachToru Arase
16CanadaCAN
1Bill Vanderpol
2Alan Pyle
3Rick Pugliese
4Clifford Barry
5Donald Packer
6Stephen Hart
7Jack Gauldie
8Robert Thompson
9David Hart
10Gabor Csepregi
11Guy Leclerc
CoachJenő Áts

Preliminary Round

Date27 – 31 August 1972

Group A

Date27 – 31 August 1972
FormatRound-robin pool.
PosCompetitorsNOCWinsTiesLossesPointsGoals
1United StatesUSA5001031-18
2YugoslaviaYUG401835-24
3CubaCUB302628-23
4RomaniaROU203438-26
5MexicoMEX104225-30
6CanadaCAN005014-50
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #127 Aug 10:00YugoslaviaYUG12 – 4CanadaCAN
Match #227 Aug 16:00CubaCUB6 – 4MexicoMEX
Match #327 Aug 18:00United StatesUSA4 – 3RomaniaROU
Match #428 Aug 12:00United StatesUSA7 – 6CubaCUB
Match #528 Aug 15:00MexicoMEX7 – 3CanadaCAN
Match #628 Aug 20:00YugoslaviaYUG8 – 7RomaniaROU
Match #729 Aug 11:00United StatesUSA8 – 1CanadaCAN
Match #829 Aug 13:00YugoslaviaYUG5 – 3MexicoMEX
Match #929 Aug 16:00CubaCUB4 – 3RomaniaROU
Match #1030 Aug 10:00YugoslaviaYUG7 – 5CubaCUB
Match #1130 Aug 12:00RomaniaROU16 – 4CanadaCAN
Match #1230 Aug 15:00United StatesUSA7 – 5MexicoMEX
Match #1331 Aug 11:00CubaCUB7 – 2CanadaCAN
Match #1431 Aug 13:00United StatesUSA5 – 3YugoslaviaYUG
Match #1531 Aug 20:00RomaniaROU9 – 6MexicoMEX

Group B

Date27 – 31 August 1972
FormatRound-robin pool.
PosCompetitorsNOCWinsTiesLossesPointsGoals
1HungaryHUN310722-6
2West GermanyFRG220621-13
3NetherlandsNED211514-11
4AustraliaAUS013114-27
5GreeceGRE013113-27
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #127 Aug 10:00HungaryHUN3 – 0NetherlandsNED
Match #227 Aug 16:00GreeceGRE7 – 7AustraliaAUS
Match #328 Aug 10:00NetherlandsNED4 – 2AustraliaAUS
Match #428 Aug 17:00West GermanyFRG3 – 3HungaryHUN
Match #529 Aug 10:00NetherlandsNED4 – 4West GermanyFRG
Match #629 Aug 14:00HungaryHUN6 – 1GreeceGRE
Match #730 Aug 14:00HungaryHUN10 – 2AustraliaAUS
Match #830 Aug 18:00West GermanyFRG8 – 3GreeceGRE
Match #931 Aug 14:00West GermanyFRG6 – 3AustraliaAUS
Match #1031 Aug 14:00NetherlandsNED6 – 2GreeceGRE

Group C

Date27 – 31 August 1972
FormatRound-robin pool.
PosCompetitorsNOCWinsTiesLossesPointsGoals
1Soviet UnionURS400830-9
2ItalyITA301627-16
3SpainESP202419-22
4BulgariaBUL103218-25
5JapanJPN004014-36
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #127 Aug 10:00SpainESP6 – 4JapanJPN
Match #227 Aug 17:00Soviet UnionURS4 – 1ItalyITA
Match #328 Aug 11:00Soviet UnionURS11 – 1JapanJPN
Match #428 Aug 14:00ItalyITA8 – 5BulgariaBUL
Match #529 Aug 12:00Soviet UnionURS7 – 2BulgariaBUL
Match #629 Aug 19:00ItalyITA6 – 2SpainESP
Match #730 Aug 11:00BulgariaBUL7 – 4JapanJPN
Match #830 Aug 14:00Soviet UnionURS8 – 5SpainESP
Match #931 Aug 10:00ItalyITA12 – 5JapanJPN
Match #1031 Aug 19:00SpainESP6 – 4BulgariaBUL

Classification Round 7-12

Date1 – 4 September 1972
FormatRound-robin pool.
PosCompetitorsNOCWinsTiesLossesPointsGoals
1NetherlandsNED410929-201
2RomaniaROU311724-192
3CubaCUB311724-233
4SpainESP203426-264
5BulgariaBUL023217-235
6AustraliaAUS014118-276
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #101 Sep 10:00RomaniaROU7 – 4SpainESP
Match #201 Sep 11:00NetherlandsNED5 – 2BulgariaBUL
Match #301 Sep 14:00CubaCUB6 – 5AustraliaAUS
Match #402 Sep 10:00RomaniaROU4 – 3BulgariaBUL
Match #502 Sep 11:00SpainESP8 – 4AustraliaAUS
Match #602 Sep 13:00NetherlandsNED8 – 6CubaCUB
Match #703 Sep 10:00AustraliaAUS4 – 4BulgariaBUL
Match #803 Sep 11:00RomaniaROU5 – 5NetherlandsNED
Match #903 Sep 14:00CubaCUB4 – 3SpainESP
Match #1004 Sep 10:00BulgariaBUL4 – 4CubaCUB
Match #1104 Sep 11:00RomaniaROU5 – 3AustraliaAUS
Match #1204 Sep 12:00NetherlandsNED7 – 5SpainESP

Final Round

Date1 – 4 September 1972
FormatRound-robin pool.
PosCompetitorsNOCWinsTiesLossesPointsGoals
1Soviet UnionURS320822-167
2HungaryHUN320823-188
3United StatesUSA221624-239
4West GermanyFRG032315-1810
5YugoslaviaYUG113320-2411
6ItalyITA023221-2612
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #101 Sep 14:00HungaryHUN8 – 7ItalyITA
Match #201 Sep 15:30West GermanyFRG4 – 4United StatesUSA
Match #301 Sep 19:30Soviet UnionURS5 – 4YugoslaviaYUG
Match #402 Sep 14:00ItalyITA6 – 6YugoslaviaYUG
Match #502 Sep 15:30Soviet UnionURS4 – 2West GermanyFRG
Match #602 Sep 19:30HungaryHUN5 – 3United StatesUSA
Match #703 Sep 14:00ItalyITA2 – 2West GermanyFRG
Match #803 Sep 15:00HungaryHUN4 – 2YugoslaviaYUG
Match #903 Sep 19:30United StatesUSA6 – 6Soviet UnionURS
Match #1004 Sep 14:00YugoslaviaYUG5 – 4West GermanyFRG
Match #1104 Sep 15:00United StatesUSA6 – 5ItalyITA
Match #1204 Sep 19:30HungaryHUN3 – 3Soviet UnionURS