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Women's water polo
at the XXXI Olympiad
Tournament details
Host country Brazil
Venue(s)2 (in 1 host city)
Dates9–19 August 2016
Teams8 (from 4 confederations)
Final positions
Champions United States (2nd title)
Runner-up Italy
Third place Russia
Fourth place Hungary
Tournament statistics
Matches played24
Goals scored435 (18.13 per match)
Top scorer(s)United States Maggie Steffens
(17 goals)
Best playerUnited States Maggie Steffens
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Water polo at the
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The women's tournament of Water polo at the 2016 Summer Olympics at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, began on 9 August and ended on 19 August 2016.[1] Games were held at the Maria Lenk Aquatic Center and the Olympic Aquatics Stadium.

The United States won the gold medal by defeating Italy 12–5 in the final. Russia captured bronze, beating Hungary 19–18.[2]

Competition schedule

G Group stage QF Quarter-finals SF Semi-finals B Bronze medal match F Final
Tue 9 Wed 10 Thu 11 Fri 12 Sat 13 Sun 14 Mon 15 Tue 16 Wed 17 Thu 18 Fri 19
G G G QF SF B F

Qualification

Main article: Water polo at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification
Qualification Date Host Berths Qualified
Host nation 2 October 2009 Denmark Copenhagen 1  Brazil
Oceanian Continental Selection[3] 19 October 2015 Australia Perth 1  Australia
2015 Asian Championship 16–17 December 2015 China Foshan 1  China
2016 European Championships 10–22 January 2016 Serbia Belgrade 1  Hungary
World Qualification Tournament 21–28 March 2016 Netherlands Gouda 4  United States
 Italy
 Russia
 Spain
Total 8

Draw

The draw was held on 10 April 2016.[4]

Teams from eight nations compete in the tournament and were seeded into two groups for the preliminary round.

Seeding

The seeding was announced on 10 April 2016.[5]

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4
 Hungary
 Australia 		 United States
 Italy 		 Russia
 China 		 Spain
 Brazil

Referees

The following referees were selected for the tournament.[6]

  • Argentina German Moller
  • Australia Daniel Flahive
  • Azerbaijan Mark Koganov
  • Brazil Fabio Toffoli
  • Canada Marie-Claude Deslières
  • China Ni Shi Wei
  • Croatia Nenad Peris
  • Egypt Hatem Gaber
  • France Benjamin Mercier
  • Greece Georgios Stavridis
  • Hungary Péter Molnár
  • Iran Masoud Rezvani
  • Italy Fillippo Gomez
  • Japan Tadao Tahara
  • Montenegro Stanko Ivanovski
  • Netherlands Diana Dutilh-Dumas
  • Poland Radosław Koryzna
  • Romania Adrian Alexandrescu
  • Russia Sergey Naumov
  • Serbia Vojin Putniković
  • Slovenia Boris Margeta
  • South Africa Dion Willis
  • Spain Francesc Buch
  • United States Joseph Peila

Preliminary round

Group A

All times are BRT (UTC-3).

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Group B

All times are BRT (UTC-3).

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Final round

Final Bracket
Quarterfinals Semifinals Gold medal match
         
A1  Italy 12
B4  China 7
A3  Russia 9
A1  Italy 12
A3  Russia 12
B2  Spain 10
 United States 12
 Italy 5
A2  Australia 11
B3  Hungary 13
B3  Hungary 10 Bronze medal match
B1  United States 14
A4  Brazil 3 4  Hungary 18
B1  United States 13  Russia 19
5th place bracket
 
5th–8th place classification5th place match
 
      
 
 
 
 
 Australia11
 
 
 
 Brazil4
 
 Australia10
 
 
 
 Spain12
 
 Spain11
 
 
 China6
 
7th place match
 
 
 
 
 
 Brazil5
 
 
 China10

Quarterfinals

All times are BRT (UTC-3).

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5th–8th place classification

All times are BRT (UTC-3).

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Semifinals

All times are BRT (UTC-3).

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7th place match

All times are BRT (UTC-3).

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5th place match

All times are BRT (UTC-3).

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Bronze medal match

All times are BRT (UTC-3).

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Gold medal match

All times are BRT (UTC-3).

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Ranking and statistics

Final ranking

Medalists

Gold Silver Bronze
 United States (USA)[1]
Samantha Hill
Maddie Musselman
Melissa Seidemann
Rachel Fattal
Caroline Clark
Maggie Steffens
Courtney Mathewson
Kiley Neushul
Aria Fischer
Kaleigh Gilchrist
Makenzie Fischer
Kami Craig
Ashleigh Johnson
Head coach: Adam Krikorian 		 Italy (ITA)
Giulia Gorlero
Chiara Tabani
Arianna Garibotti
Elisa Queirolo
Federica Radicchi
Rosaria Aiello
Tania Di Mario
Roberta Bianconi
Giulia Enrica Emmolo
Francesca Pomeri
Aleksandra Cotti
Teresa Frassinetti
Laura Teani
Head coach: Fabio Conti 		 Russia (RUS)
Anna Ustyukhina
Maria Borisova
Ekaterina Prokofyeva
Elvina Karimova
Nadezhda Fedotova
Olga Belova
Ekaterina Lisunova
Anastasia Simanovich
Anna Timofeeva
Evgenia Soboleva
Evgeniya Ivanova
Anna Grineva
Anna Karnaukh
Head coach: Alexandr Gaidukov

Awards

The women's all-star team was announced on 19 August 2016.[7]

Most Valuable Player
Media All-Star Team

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "HistoFINA – Water polo medalists and statistics" (PDF). fina.org. FINA. September 2019. p. 56. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Water Polo, Women's final and bronze matches - US retain title, their reign is unchallenged". fina.org. 19 August 2016.
  3. ^ "Breakdown of anticipated athletes by sport". Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
  4. ^ "WP Olympic Games Qualification Tournament is ready". federnuoto.it. 1 April 2016.
  5. ^ "RIO 2016 - Water polo - Teams & Groups". fina.org. 10 April 2016.
  6. ^ Referees
  7. ^ "Rio 2016: Egyesült Államok ismét a csúcson; két magyar az álomcsapatban". waterpolo.hu (in Hungarian). Hungarian Water Polo Federation. 19 August 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  8. ^ "Maggie STEFFENS Steffens". fina.org. FINA. Retrieved 16 December 2020.

Sources

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