Water polo at the 1996 Summer Olympics

The men's water polo tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics was held from July 20 to July 28, 1996, in Atlanta, United States.

Contents 1 Teams 2 Squads 3 Preliminary round 3.1 Group A 3.2 Group B 4 Classification round 5 Final round 5.1 Quarterfinals 5.2 Semifinals 5.3 Finals 6 Final ranking 7 Medallists 8 Note 9 See also 10 References

Teams

GROUP A  Germany  Hungary  Netherlands  Russia  Spain  Yugoslavia

GROUP B  Croatia  Greece  Italy  Romania  Ukraine  United States

Squads

Preliminary round

Group A

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Hungary	10	5	5	0	0	47	38	+9
2.	Yugoslavia	7	5	3	1	1	46	44	+2
3.	Spain	6	5	3	0	2	39	33	+6
4.	Russia	5	5	2	1	2	42	38	+4
5.	Germany	2	5	1	0	4	36	45	–9
6.	Netherlands	0	5	0	0	5	36	48	–12

• Saturday July 20, 1996

Hungary	8 – 7	Russia
Spain	9 – 3	Germany
Yugoslavia	11 – 8	Netherlands

• Sunday July 21, 1996

Hungary	9 – 8	Germany
Russia	9 – 9	Yugoslavia
Spain	8 – 7	Netherlands

• Monday July 22, 1996

Hungary	10 – 8	Netherlands
Russia	10 – 8	Germany
Yugoslavia	9 – 7	Spain

• Tuesday July 23, 1996

Hungary	8 – 7	Spain
Russia	10 – 5	Netherlands
Yugoslavia	9 – 8	Germany

• Wednesday July 24, 1996

Germany	9 – 8	Netherlands
Hungary	12 – 8	Yugoslavia
Spain	8 – 6	Russia

Group B

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Italy	10	5	5	0	0	48	38	+10
2.	United States	8	5	4	0	1	45	37	+8
3.	Croatia	6	5	3	0	2	51	39	+12
4.	Greece	4	5	2	0	3	37	38	–1
5.	Romania	1	5	0	1	4	31	45	–14
6.	Ukraine	1	5	0	1	4	33	48	–15

• Saturday July 20, 1996

Croatia	8 – 5	Greece
Italy	10 – 7	United States
Romania	6 – 6	Ukraine

• Sunday July 21, 1996

Croatia	11 – 6	Romania
Italy	8 – 6	Ukraine
United States	9 – 7	Greece

• Monday July 22, 1996

Greece	8 – 5	Romania
Italy	10 – 8	Croatia
United States	9 – 7	Ukraine

• Tuesday July 23, 1996

Croatia	16 – 8	Ukraine
Italy	10 – 8	Greece
United States	10 – 5	Romania

• Wednesday July 24, 1996

Greece	9 – 6	Ukraine
Italy	10 – 9	Romania
United States	10 – 8	Croatia

Classification round

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
9.	Germany	6	3	3	0	0	29	16	+13
10.	Netherlands	3	3	1	1	1	25	26	–1
11.	Romania	2	3	1	0	2	25	28	–3
12.	Ukraine	1	3	0	1	2	21	30	–9

• Friday July 26, 1996

Germany	10 – 4	Ukraine
Netherlands	10 – 8	Romania

• Saturday July 27, 1996

Germany	9 – 6	Netherlands
Romania	11 – 8	Ukraine

• Sunday July 28, 1996

Netherlands	9 – 9	Ukraine
Germany	10 – 6	Romania

Final round

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	Hungary	12
	Greece	8
					Hungary	6
					Spain	7
	Spain	5
	United States	4
									Spain	7
									Croatia	5
	Yugoslavia	6
	Croatia	8
					Croatia	7			Third place
					Italy	6
	Russia	9							Hungary	18
	Italy	11							Italy	20

Quarterfinals

• Friday July 26, 1996

Hungary	12 – 8	Greece
Yugoslavia	6 – 8	Croatia
Spain	5 – 4	United States
Russia	9 – 11	Italy

Semifinals

• Saturday July 27, 1996 — 5th/8th place

Greece	7 – 6	United States
Yugoslavia	15 – 16	Russia

• Saturday July 27, 1996 — 1st/4th place

Croatia	7 – 6	Italy
Hungary	6 – 7	Spain

Finals

• Sunday July 28, 1996 — 7th place

United States	12 – 8	Yugoslavia

• Sunday July 28, 1996 — 5th place

Greece	8 – 10	Russia

• Sunday July 28, 1996 — Bronze medal match

Hungary	18 – 20	Italy

• Sunday July 28, 1996 — Gold medal match

Spain	7 – 5	Croatia

Final ranking

RANK TEAM  Spain  Croatia  Italy 4.  Hungary 5.  Russia 6.  Greece 7.  United States 8.  Yugoslavia 9.  Germany 10.  Netherlands 11.  Romania 12.  Ukraine

1996 Men's Olympic Champions  Spain First title

Medallists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Spain Josep María Abarca Ángel Andreo Daniel Ballart Pedro Francisco García Salvador Gómez Manuel Estiarte Iván Moro Miguel Ángel Oca Jorge Payá Sergi Pedrerol Jesús Rollán Jordi Sans Carles Sans Head Coach: —	Croatia Maro Balić Perica Bukić Damir Glavan Igor Hinić Vjekoslav Kobeščak Joško Kreković Ognjen Kržić Dubravko Šimenc Siniša Školneković Ratko Štritof Renato Vrbičić Tino Vegar Zdeslav Vrdoljak Head Coach: Bruno Silić —	Italy Alberto Angelini Francesco Attolico Fabio Bencivenga Alessandro Bovo Alessandro Calcaterra Roberto Calcaterra Marco Gerini Alberto Ghibellini Luca Guistolisi Amedeo Pomilio Francesco Postiglione Carlo Silipo Leonardo Sottani Head Coach: —

Note

• The women had to wait for Olympic recognition by the IOC, and played their own "Olympic Tournament" with twelve competing teams, from May 29 to June 7, 1996, in Emmen, Netherlands.

See also

• 1994 FINA Men's World Water Polo Championship
• 1998 FINA Men's World Water Polo Championship

References

• "Official Olympic Report". International Olympic Committee. http://www.la84foundation.org/5va/reports_frmst.htm. Retrieved 2008-04-18. 
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