Water polo at the 1912 Summer Olympics

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Water polo

The 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, saw the fourth water polo tournament at Olympics. All games took place in the newly built swimming stadium in Djurgårdsbrunnsviken from July 7 to July 16, 1912.

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[edit] Medal summary

Gold Silver Bronze
Great Britain Great Britain
Charles Sydney Smith
George Cornet
George Wilkinson
Charles Bugbee
Arthur Edwin Hill
Paul Radmilovic
Isaac Bentham
Sweden Sweden
Torsten Kumfeldt
Harald Julin
Max Gumpel
Robert Andersson
Pontus Hanson
Vilhelm Andersson
Erik Bergqvist
Belgium Belgium
Albert Durant
Herman Donners
Victor Boin
Herman Meyboom
Joseph Pletinckx
Oscar Grégoire
Félicien Courbet
Jean Hoffman
Pierre Nijs

The competitions in water polo were arranged on the Cup Tie (elimination) system, but in such a way that the necessary number of matches had to be played for the second and third prizes between the teams qualified to take part in these rounds. The principle was adopted, that a team which had not been beaten, direct or indirect, by a team that was qualified to fight for the second or third prize, should have the right to play against the team last-mentioned, even if it (the first-named) had already been beaten by some other team. The teams entered were drawn in pairs for the first round, after which the order in which they were to meet in the second round was determined by drawing lots, so that the order in which the games were to be played, right up to the final, was fixed before the games began.

[edit] Participating nations

A total of 45 water polo players from 6 nations competed at the Stockholm Games:

[edit] Bracket

First round Second round Gold medal match
                   
July 7 - Djurgårdsbrunnsviken        
 Great Britain Great Britain (a.e.t.)  7
July 11 - Djurgårdsbrunnsviken
 Belgium Belgium  5  
 Great Britain Great Britain  6
July 8 - Djurgårdsbrunnsviken
   Sweden Sweden  3  
 Sweden Sweden  7
July 13 - Djurgårdsbrunnsviken
 France France  2  
 Great Britain Great Britain  8
   Austria Austria  0
   
     
 Austria Austria  
July 9 - Djurgårdsbrunnsviken
   bye    
 Austria Austria  5
 Hungary Hungary  4  


[edit] Results

[edit] Main Tournament to Gold

First Round
July 7 Great Britain Great Britain (GBR) 7 - 5 Belgium Belgium (BEL) after extra time
Hill (2), Wilkinson (2), Radmilovic (2), Bentham (2 - 3) Grégoire (2), Meyboom (2), Nijs

July 8 Sweden Sweden (SWE) 7 - 2 France France (FRA)
R. Andersson (3), Bergqvist (3), ? (4 - 0) Decoin, Provost

July 9 Austria Austria (AUT) 5 - 4 Hungary Hungary (HUN)
Scheff, ? (1 - 2) Fazekas, Hégner, Rémi, ?
Second Round
July 11 Great Britain Great Britain (GBR) 6 - 3 Sweden Sweden (SWE)
Wilkinson (3), Hill, Radmilovic, Bentham (3 - 0) R. Andersson (2), V. Andersson
Gold medal match
July 13 Great Britain Great Britain (GBR) 8 - 0 Austria Austria (AUT)
? (4 - 0)

[edit] Tournament to Silver


First Round
July 10 Belgium Belgium (BEL) 6 - 5 Hungary Hungary (HUN)
? (2 - 3) Fazekas (3), Rémi, ?

July 11 Belgium Belgium (BEL) 4 - 1 France France (FRA)
? (2 - 1) ?
Second Round
July 14 Sweden Sweden (SWE) 8 - 1 Austria Austria (AUT)
R. Andersson (3), Bergqvist (3), V. Andersson (2) (5 - 1) Scheff

July 15 Belgium Belgium (BEL) 5 - 4 Austria Austria (AUT)
? (2 - 1) Scheff, ?
Silver and Bronze medal match
July 16 Sweden Sweden (SWE) 4 - 2 Belgium Belgium (BEL)
Bergqvist (2), V. Andersson, R. Andersson (4 - 0) ?

The winning British water polo team.
The winning British water polo team.

[edit] Final standings

Place Nation
1 Great Britain Great Britain (GBR)
2 Sweden Sweden (SWE)
3 Belgium Belgium (BEL)
4 Austria Austria (AUT)
Rudolf Buchfelder
Richard Manuel
Walter Schachlitz
Otto Scheff
Josef Wagner
Ernst Kovács
Hermann Buchfelder
- Hungary Hungary (HUN)
Sándor Ádám
László Beleznai
Tibor Fazekas
Jenő Hégner
Károly Rémi
János Wenk
Imre Zachár
France France (FRA)
Gustave Prouvost
Gaston Vanlaere
Georges Rigal
Paul Beulque
Jean Thorailles
Henri Decoin
Paul Vasseur
Jean Rodier

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