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Water polo is a competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the ball into the opposing team's goal. The team with the most goals at the end of the game wins the match. Each team is made up of six field players and one goalkeeper. Excluding the goalkeeper, players participate in both offensive and defensive roles. It is typically played in an all-deep pool where players cannot touch the bottom.
Water polo has been part of the Summer Olympics program since the second games, in 1900. A women's water polo tournament was introduced for the 2000 Summer Olympics. Hungary has been the most successful country in men's tournament, while the United States is the only team to win multiple times at the women's tournament since its introduction. Italy is the first and only country to win both the men's and women's water polo tournaments.
Miguel Ángel Oca Gaia, better known as Miki Oca, is a former Spanish water polo player, who was a member of the national team that won the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. Four years earlier he won the silver medal. He is the current coach of the Spain women's national water polo team. He led the team to win an Olympic silver medal in 2012, becoming one of a few sportspeople who won Olympic medals in water polo as players and head coaches.
The Greece women's national water polo team represents Greece in international women's water polo competitions. Since the mid-1990s, Greece have emerged as one of the leading powers in the world, becoming World Champions after their gold medal win at the 2011 World Championship. They have also won the silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics, the gold medal at the 2005 World League, 3 silver medals at the 2010, 2012 and 2018 European Championships and the gold medal at the 2018 Europa Cup.
Alessandro Calcaterra is an Italian water polo player, who represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996. He was a member of the men's national team that claimed the bronze medal in 1996. He was the top goalscorer at the 2008 Olympics, with 27 goals.
The women's water polo tournament at the 2004 Summer Olympics was contested between August 16 and August 26 at the Olympic Aquatic Centre in the Athens Olympic Sports Complex. Eight teams qualified for the Games, with Italy defeating the host nation Greece for the gold medal. The United States won the bronze medal.
The South Africa women's national water polo team represents the South Africa in international women's water polo competitions and friendly matches.
Water polo competitions at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru were held from July 28 to August 10. The venue for the competition was the water polo pool located at the Villa María del Triunfo cluster. A total of eight men's and eight women's teams competed in each tournament. This meant a total of 176 athletes were scheduled to compete.
Nikoloz Shubladze is a Georgian water polo player for VK Primorac Kotor and the Georgian national team.
Beka Kavtaradze is a Georgian water polo player for VK Dinamo Tbilisi and the Georgian national team.
Revaz Imnaishvili is a Georgian water polo player for WPC Dinamo Tbilisi and the captain of Georgian national water polo team.
Andria Bitadze is a professional Georgian water polo player for WPC Dinamo Tbilisi and the Georgian national team. Previously he has played for Jadran Herceg Novi, CN Barcelona, VK Crvena Zvezda and Roma vis Nova.
Marko Jelača is a Georgian water polo player for CC Ortigia and the Georgian national team.
Khvicha Jakhaia is a Georgian water polo player for Dinamo Moscow and the Georgian national team.
Mikheil Baghaturia is a Georgian water polo player for Dinamo Tbilisi and the Georgian national team.
Konstantine Gegelashvili is a Georgian water polo player for VK Locomotive Tbilisi and the Georgian national team.
'Giorgi' Magrakvelidze is a Georgian water polo player for WPC DINAMO TBILISI and the Georgian national team.
Irakli Razmadze is a Georgian water polo player for Dinamo Tbilisi and the Georgian national team.
South Africa competed at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships in Gwangju, South Korea from 12 to 28 July.
The 2020 Men's European Water Polo Championship Qualifiers are a series of tournaments aimed to establish the participants of the 2020 Men's European Water Polo Championship. The matches were played from 11 to 13 October 2019.
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- ↑ "Team Roster" (PDF). wp2018bcn.microplustiming.com. 16 July 2018. p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
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