Water polo at the 1992 Summer Olympics

The men's water polo tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics was held from August 1 to August 10, 1992, in Barcelona, Spain. Reigning world champion Yugoslavia had qualified for the tournament, but as it had formally dissolved in the interim, it didn't participate. The successor countries didn't participate for several reasons. Serbia and Montenegro couldn't participate due to the UN sanctions due to their aggression on Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Croatia, which was the strongest among them at the time (the Croatian club was champion of Yugoslavia and European Champions' Cup winner), also did not participate in the water polo tournament.

The position Yugoslavia was replaced by Czechoslovakia.

Teams

GROUP A

GROUP B

Squads

Preliminary round

Group A

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Unified Team	10	5	5	0	0	50	32	+18
2.	United States	8	5	4	0	1	40	24	+16
3.	Australia	5	5	2	1	2	44	41	+3
4.	Germany	4	5	2	0	3	38	41	–3
5.	France	3	5	1	1	3	38	42	–4
6.	Czechoslovakia	0	5	0	0	5	33	63	–30

August 1, 1992


Czechoslovakia	6 – 10	Unified Team
Australia	4 – 8	United States
Germany	7 – 7	France

August 2, 1992


Czechoslovakia	3 – 9	United States
France	5 – 9	Australia
Germany	7 – 11	Unified Team

August 3, 1992


United States	11 – 7	France
Germany	15 – 9	Czechoslovakia
Australia	9 – 12	Unified Team

August 5, 1992


Czechoslovakia	6 – 14	France
United States	5 – 8	Unified Team
Germany	7 – 7	Australia

August 6, 1992


Australia	15 – 9	Czechoslovakia
United States	7 – 2	Germany
France	5 – 9	Unified Team

Group B

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Spain	9	5	4	1	0	52	36	+16
2.	Italy	8	5	3	2	0	41	34	+7
3.	Hungary	6	5	2	2	1	49	46	+3
4.	Cuba	4	5	2	0	3	50	53	–3
5.	Netherlands	2	5	0	2	3	36	46	–10
6.	Greece	1	5	0	1	4	32	45	–13

August 1, 1992


Hungary	7 – 7	Italy
Greece	9 – 10	Cuba
Spain	12 – 6	Netherlands

August 2, 1992


Netherlands	4 – 6	Italy
Cuba	11 – 12	Hungary
Spain	11 – 6	Greece

August 3, 1992


Italy	11 – 8	Cuba
Greece	4 – 4	Netherlands
Hungary	5 – 8	Spain

August 5, 1992


Netherlands	9 – 11	Cuba
Greece	7 – 12	Hungary
Spain	9 – 9	Italy

August 6, 1992


Hungary	13 – 13	Netherlands
Italy	8 – 6	Greece
Spain	12 – 10	Cuba

Final round

Group D

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
5.	Australia	5	3	2	1	0	23	20	+3
6.	Hungary	4	3	2	0	1	28	27	+1
7.	Germany	3	3	1	1	1	24	21	+3
8.	Cuba	0	3	0	0	3	22	29	–7

August 8, 1992


Australia	7 – 5	Cuba
Germany	7 – 8	Hungary

August 9, 1992


Germany	10 – 6	Cuba
Australia	9 – 8	Hungary

Group E

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
9.	Netherlands	5	3	2	1	0	28	20	+8
10.	Greece	5	3	2	1	0	24	18	+6
11.	France	2	3	1	0	2	28	31	–3
12.	Czechoslovakia	0	3	0	0	3	22	33	–11

August 8, 1992


France	6 – 10	Greece
Czechoslovakia	8 – 9	Netherlands

August 9, 1992


Czechoslovakia	8 – 10	Greece
France	8 – 15	Netherlands

Semi finals

August 8, 1992


Italy	9 – 8	Unified Team
United States	4 – 6	Spain

Bronze medal match

August 9, 1992


United States	4 – 8	Unified Team

Gold medal match

August 9, 1992


Spain	8 – 9 [aet]	Italy

Final ranking

	Italy
	Spain
	Unified Team
4	United States
5	Australia
6	Hungary
7	Germany
8	Cuba
9	Netherlands
10	Greece
11	France
12	Czechoslovakia

Medallists

References

Results

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Italy Francesco Attolico Alessandro Bovo Alessandro Campagna Paolo Caldarella Massimiliano Ferretti Giuseppe Porzio Marco D'Altrui Mario Fiorillo Ferdinando Gandolfi Amedeo Pomilio Francesco Porzio Carlo Silipo Gianni Averaimo Head Coach: Ratko Rudić	Spain Daniel Ballart Jesús Rollán Jordi Sans Josep Picó Manuel Estiarte Manuel Silvestre Marco Antonio González Miguel Ángel Oca Pedro Francisco García Ricardo Sánchez Rubén Michavila Salvador Gómez Sergi Pedrerol Head Coach: Dragan Matutinović	Unified Team Sergey Naumov Alexandre Ogorodnikov Aleksandr Chigir Dmitri Apanassenko Andrei Belofastov Evgueni Charonov Dmitry Gorshkov Vladimir Karabutov Aleksandr Kolotov Andriy Kovalenko Nikolay Kozlov Serghei Marcoci Alexei Vdovine Head Coach: Boris Popov