Water polo at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Water polo at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Venue	Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool
Dates	21 September – 1 October 1988
Competitors	156 from 12 nations
Medalists
Yugoslavia   United States   Soviet Union
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Water polo at the 1988 Summer Olympics as usual was part of the swimming sport, the other two being swimming and diving. They were not seen as three separate sports, because they all were governed by one federation — FINA. Water polo discipline consisted of one event: the men's team competition.

In the preliminary round twelve teams were divided into two groups. The two best teams from each group (shaded ones) advanced to the semi-finals. The two numbers three and four played classification matches to determine places 5 through 8, with the earlier result taken with them. The rest of the teams also played classification matches to determine places 9 through 12. ^{[1] [2]}

Qualification ^[3]

Qualification	Date	Host	Berths	Qualified
Host nation	30 September 1978	Baden-Baden	1	South Korea
1986 World Championships	14-22 August 1986	Madrid	6	Yugoslavia
				Italy
				Soviet Union
				United States
				Spain
				West Germany
Intercontinental qualification	13-22 May 1988	Perth	5	Hungary   Australia   France   Greece   China
Total			12

Squads

Main article: Water polo at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads

Preliminary round

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
West Germany	5	5	0	0	60	37	+23	10
Soviet Union	5	3	1	1	63	30	+33	7
Italy	5	3	1	1	48	33	+15	7
Australia	5	2	0	3	40	39	+1	4
France	5	1	0	4	43	54	−11	2
South Korea	5	0	0	5	14	75	−61	0

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

• 21 September
  • Italy 9-9 Soviet Union
  • France 16-5 South Korea
  • Australia 11-13 West Germany
• 22 September
  • South Korea 1-11 Italy
  • France 9-10 West Germany
  • Australia 4-11 Soviet Union
• 23 September
  • South Korea 2-18 West Germany
  • Australia 5-7 Italy
  • France 4-18 Soviet Union
• 26 September
  • Italy 7-10 West Germany
  • South Korea 4-17 Soviet Union
  • France 6-7 Australia
• 27 September
  • France 8-14 Italy
  • Australia 13-2 South Korea
  • Soviet Union 8-9 West Germany

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Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
United States	5	4	0	1	56	40	+16	8
Yugoslavia	5	4	0	1	60	38	+22	8
Spain	5	3	1	1	48	38	+10	7
Hungary	5	2	1	2	50	43	+7	5
Greece	5	1	0	4	45	66	−21	2
China	5	0	0	5	34	68	−34	0

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

• 21 September
  • Hungary 12-10 Greece
  • United States 7-6 Yugoslavia
  • China 6-13 Spain
• 22 September
  • Greece 10-7 China
  • United States 7-9 Spain
  • Hungary 9-10 Yugoslavia
• 23 September
  • United States 14-7 China
  • Greece 7-17 Yugoslavia
  • Hungary 6-6 Spain
• 26 September
  • United States 18-9 Greece
  • Hungary 14-7 China
  • Spain 8-10 Yugoslavia
• 27 September
  • Greece 9-12 Spain
  • Hungary 9-10 United States
  • Yugoslavia 17-7 China

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Final round

Semi finals

• 30 September
  • West Germany 10-14 Yugoslavia
  • Soviet Union 7-8 United States

Bronze medal match

• 1 October
  • West Germany 13-14 Soviet Union

Final

• 1 October
  • Yugoslavia 9-7 United States

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Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
5	Hungary	3	1	2	0	28	20	+8	4
6	Spain	3	1	1	1	24	23	+1	3
7	Italy	3	1	1	1	25	25	0	3
8	Australia	3	1	0	2	18	27	−9	2

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

• 30 September
  • Italy 9-9 Hungary
  • Australia 8-7 Spain
• 1 October
  • Australia 5-13 Hungary
  • Italy 9-11 Spain

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Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
9	Greece	3	3	0	0	37	21	+16	6
10	France	3	2	0	1	34	19	+15	4
11	China	3	1	0	2	25	28	−3	2
12	South Korea	3	0	0	3	19	47	−28	0

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

• 30 September
  • France 11-4 China
  • South Korea 7-17 Greece
• 1 October
  • South Korea 7-14 China
  • France 7-10 Greece

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Final ranking

	Yugoslavia [1]
	United States
	Soviet Union
4	West Germany
5	Hungary
6	Spain
7	Italy
8	Australia
9	Greece
10	France
11	China
12	South Korea

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Goals
1	Manuel Estiarte	27
2	Pierre Garsau	20
3	András Gyöngyösi	19
4	Frank Otto	18
	Kyriakos Giannopoulos
	Antonis Aronis
7	Dirk Theismann	17
8	Igor Milanovic	16
	Yang Yong
10	Hagen Stamm	15
11	Dmitry Apanasenko	14
	Giorgi Mshvenieradze
	Geoff Clark
14	Jordi Sans	13
15	Jody Campbell	12
	Sergey Kotenko
	Alessandro Campagna
	Massimiliano Ferretti

See also

• 1986 FINA Men's World Water Polo Championship
• 1991 FINA Men's World Water Polo Championship

References

1. "HistoFINA – Water polo medalists and statistics" (PDF). fina.org. FINA. September 2019. p. 4. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
2. "Water Polo at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
3. "Men_1988". Todor66.

Sources

• PDF documents in the LA84 Foundation Digital Library:
  • Official Report of the 1988 Olympic Games, v.2 (download, archive) (pp. 590–598)
• Water polo on the Olympedia website
  • Water polo at the 1988 Summer Olympics (men's tournament)
• Water polo on the Sports Reference website
  • Water polo at the 1988 Summer Games (men's tournament) (archived)

External links

• Official results