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| Nationality | Chinese | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | May 3, 1987 Tianjin, China | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  China | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Water polo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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He Jin (born 3 May 1987 in Tianjin) is a Chinese water polo player who was part of the silver medal winning team at the 2007 World Junior Championship. She competed at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. [1]
Brenda Villa is an accomplished American water polo player. She is the most decorated athlete in the world of women’s water polo. Villa was named Female Water Polo Player of the Decade for 2000-2009 by the FINA Aquatics World Magazine. She is one of four female players who competed in water polo at four Olympics; and one of two female athletes who won four Olympic medals in water polo. She is a leading goalscorer in Olympic water polo history, with 31 goals. In 2018, she was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame and the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame.
Anthony Lawrence Azevedo is a Brazilian-born American water polo player. He is a 2008 Olympic silver medalist and a five-time Olympian. Azevedo ranks fourth on the all-time scoring list in Olympic history, with 61 goals. Nicknamed "The Savior" at one point, he is considered to be one of the best American water polo players in recent memory. He was the former captain of the U.S. National Men's Water Polo Team. He is also a graduate of Stanford University.
Dejan Savić is a Serbian professional water polo coach and former player. Dejan Savić is a former head coach of the Serbian national team and Crvena zvezda
Heather Danielle Petri is an American water polo player, who won the silver medal with the US women's national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics, a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics, a silver medal in Beijing in 2008 and the gold medal in London 2012. She is one of four female players who competed in water polo at four Olympics; and one of two female athletes who won four Olympic medals in water polo. Her position is attacker.
Bradley Darrell Schumacher is an American former competition swimmer, water polo player, and Olympic gold medalist. Schumacher is a two-time, two-sport Olympian. He was a member of the winning relay teams at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Four years later, he was a member of the U.S. men's water polo team at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Elizabeth Anne "Betsey" Armstrong is an American water polo goalkeeper, who won gold medals with the United States women's national water polo team at the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2007 and 2011 Pan American Games, and 2007 and 2009 world championships. She is a leading goalkeeper in Olympic water polo history, with 102 saves. Armstrong attended Huron High School in Ann Arbor and was a three-year letterwinner on her water polo team. She then went on to graduate from the University of Michigan in 2005, where she was the goalkeeper for the women's water polo team. Betsey graduated with a bachelor's degree in English language and Literature. She is currently the record holder at University of Michigan with 350 saves.
Adam Krikorian is an American water polo coach and the head coach of the United States women's national water polo team. He coached the team to gold medals at the 2012 Olympic Games, 2016 Olympic Games, and 2020 Olympic Games. He was named the United States Olympic Committee's Coach of the Games for 2016. He won 15 NCAA national championships as player, assistant coach, and head coach at UCLA.
Antigoni Roumpesi or Antigoni Roumbesi is a Greek water polo player, World Aquatics gold champion and Olympic silver medalist with the Greece women's national water polo team.
Xie Junmin is a Chinese male former water polo player. He was part of the China men's national water polo team. He was part of the gold medal winning team at the 2006 Asian Games and competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He also competed at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships and 2013 World Aquatics Championships.
Yang Jun is a female Chinese water polo goalkeeper who was part of the silver medal-winning team at the 2011 World Championships, held in Shanghai, and 2007 World Junior Championship. She competed at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics. She is a leading goalkeeper in Olympic water polo history, with 138 saves.
Sun Yating is a female Chinese professional water polo player, who was part of the silver medal winning team at the 2007 World Junior Championship. She has competed at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics. She has played for Olympiacos in Greece, where she won the Greek Championship.
Wang Yi is a Chinese water polo player who was part of the silver medal-winning team at the 2007 World Junior Championship. She also competed at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. She was the top sprinter at the 2008 Olympics, with 18 sprints won.
Ma Huanhuan is a female Chinese professional water polo player who was part of the silver medal winning team at the 2007 World Junior Championship. She has competed at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics. She is a leading goalscorer in Olympic water polo history, with 37 goals.
Rebecca Marie Rippon is an Australian former water polo player. She represented Australia as a member of the Australia women's national water polo team at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she won a bronze medal.
Alicia McCormack is an Australian water polo goalkeeper. Her playing career started at the age of fourteen with the Kirrawee High School water polo team, and today she plays for the Cronulla Water Polo Club in the National Water Polo League and is a member of the Australia women's national water polo team. Although she did not play water polo in 2010 due to injury, McCormack has won gold medals at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and the 2006 FINA World Cup; a silver medal at the 2007 FINA World Championships; and bronze medals at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics, 2005 FINA World League Super Finals, 2008 FINA World League Super Finals and 2009 FINA World League Super Finals.
Margaret Ann Steffens is an American professional water polo player. She won the gold medal with the United States at the 2012, 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, Steffens set a new Olympic record for the most number of goals scored by an individual player in women's water polo at the Olympic Games.
People's Republic of China competed at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, Spain on July 20 to August 4, 2013.
Xiong Dunhan is a Chinese water polo player.
The qualification for the 2020 men's Olympic water polo tournament allocated twelve teams quota spots: the hosts, the top team in the World League, the top two teams in the World Championships, five continental Olympic qualification tournament champions, and the three top teams at an Olympic qualifying tournament.
The qualification for the 2020 women's Olympic water polo tournament allocated ten teams quota spots: the hosts, the top team in the World League, the top team in the World Championships, five continental Olympic qualification tournament champions, and the two top teams at an Olympic qualifying tournament.
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