Water polo at the 2018 Asian Games

Water polo at the 2018 Asian Games
Venue	Gelora Bung Karno Aquatic Stadium
Dates	16 August – 1 September 2018
Competitors	195 from 10 nations
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Water polo at the 2018 Asian Games was held at the Gelora Bung Karno Aquatic Stadium, Gelora Bung Karno Sports Complex, Jakarta, Indonesia from 16 August to 1 September. ^[1] Ten countries with 9 men's team and 6 women's team participated in the competition. ^{[2] [3]}

Schedule

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Round

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Last round

P

Preliminary round

¼

Quarterfinals

½

Semifinals

F

Finals

Event↓/Date →	16th Thu	17th Fri	18th Sat	19th Sun	20th Mon	21st Tue	22nd Wed	23rd Thu	24th Fri	25th Sat	26th Sun	27th Mon	28th Tue	29th Wed	30th Thu	31st Fri	1st Sat
Men										P	P	P	P	P	¼	½	F
Women	●	●		●	●	●

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	Kazakhstan Pavel Lipilin Yevgeniy Medvedev Ruslan Akhmetov Roman Pilipenko Miras Aubakirov Alexey Shmider Murat Shakenov Altay Altayev Rustam Ukumanov Mikhail Ruday Ravil Manafov Yulian Verdesh Valeriy Shlemov	Japan Katsuyuki Tanamura Seiya Adachi Harukiirario Koppu Mitsuaki Shiga Takuma Yoshida Atsuto Iida Takumu Miyazawa Mitsuru Takata Atsushi Arai Yusuke Inaba Keigo Okawa Kenta Araki Tomoyoshi Fukushima	Iran Omid Lotfpour Peyman Asadi Amir Hossein Rahbar Hamed Malek-Khanbanan Amir Hossein Keyhani Ali Pirouzkhah Amir Dehdari Mehdi Yazdankhah Soheil Rostamian Mohammad Javad Abbasi Arshia Almasi Hossein Khaledi Shayan Ghasemi
Women details	China Peng Lin Zhai Ying Mei Xiaohan Xiong Dunhan Niu Guannan Guo Ning Nong Sanfeng Zhang Cong Wang Huan Zhang Danyi Chen Xiao Zhang Jing Shen Yineng	Kazakhstan Alexandra Zharkimbayeva Oxana Saichuk Aizhan Akilbayeva Anna Turova Anastassiya Yeremina Darya Roga Anna Novikova Sivilya Raiter Shakhzoda Mansurova Zamira Myrzabekova Anastassiya Mirshina Anastassiya Murataliyeva Azhar Alibayeva	Japan Minami Shioya Yumi Arima Akari Inaba Shino Magariyama Chiaki Sakanoue Minori Yamamoto Maiko Hashida Yuki Niizawa Kana Hosoya Misaki Noro Marina Tokumoto Kotori Suzuki Miyuu Aoki

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Kazakhstan  (KAZ)	1	1	0	2
2	China  (CHN)	1	0	0	1
3	Japan  (JPN)	0	1	1	2
4	Iran  (IRI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 entries)		2	2	2	6

Draw

A draw ceremony was held on 5 July 2018 to determine the groups for the men's competition. The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 2014 Asian Games. The women were played in round robin format. ^[4]

Group A   Kazakhstan (1)   South Korea (4)   Singapore   Iran

Group B   Japan (2)   China (3)   Saudi Arabia   Hong Kong   Indonesia

Final standing

Men

Further information: Water polo at the 2018 Asian Games – Men's tournament

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L
	Kazakhstan	6	6	0	0
	Japan	7	6	0	1
	Iran	6	4	0	2
4	China	7	4	0	3
5	South Korea	6	3	0	3
6	Singapore	6	1	0	5
7	Saudi Arabia	7	2	1	4
8	Indonesia	7	1	1	5
9	Hong Kong	4	0	0	4

Women

Further information: Water polo at the 2018 Asian Games – Women's tournament

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L
	China	5	5	0	0
	Kazakhstan	5	4	0	1
	Japan	5	3	0	2
4	Thailand	5	2	0	3
5	Indonesia	5	1	0	4
6	Hong Kong	5	0	0	5

References

1. "Aquatics Sports Technical Handbook" (PDF). Indonesia Asian Games 2018 Organizing Committee. 15 February 2018. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
2. Li, Xia (1 September 2018). "Defending champions Kazakhstan beat Japan to retain title in men's water polo". Xinhua News Agency. Archived from the original on September 2, 2018. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
3. Savary, Richard Arul (17 August 2018). "Asian Games 2018: Round-up of women's water polo results from Day 1". Sportskeeda . Retrieved 3 September 2018.
4. "'COR' makes debut in Asian Games draw". ocasia.org. 5 July 2018. Retrieved 8 July 2018.

External links

• Water polo at the 2018 Asian Games
• Official Result Book – Water Polo