2020 Men's Water Polo Olympic Qualification Tournament Explained

Tourney Name:2020 Men's Water Polo Olympic Qualification Tournament
Country:Netherlands
Dates:14–21 February 2021
Num Teams:12
Confederations:2
Venues:1
Cities:1
Matches:36
Goals:844
Top Scorer: Konstantin Kharkov
Daniil Merkulov
(24 goals)[1]

See main article: Water polo at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Water polo at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification. The 2020 Men's Water Polo Olympic Qualification Tournament took place from 14 to 21 February 2021 in Rotterdam, Netherlands.[2] The top three teams advanced to the Olympics.

The tournament was scheduled to take place from 22 to 29 March and then from 31 May to 7 June 2020, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3]

Due to their semifinal wins, both Montenegro and Greece qualified for the Olympics.[4] Croatia followed by winning the third place game.[5]

Participants

Means of qualification Date Venue Berths Qualified
Host nation — — 1
4–10 August 2019 3
14–26 January 2020 9
[6]
Total 12

Draw

The draw took place on 11 February 2020 in Lausanne, Switzerland.[7]

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1 Argentina withdrew from the tournament in mid-February. FINA replaced the South-American team with Romania

Preliminary round

All times are local (UTC+1).[8]

Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

Bracket

Fifth place bracket

Quarterfinals

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5–8th place semifinals

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Semifinals

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Final

Final ranking

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Rank width=170Team[9]
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5
6
7
8
9
10
11
DSQ

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://results.microplustiming.com/rotterdam2020/export/EWPC/pdf/WPOM--------------------------------_85B%206.0.pdf Top Scorers
  2. Web site: Information bulletin – Rotterdam 2020. FINA. 23 January 2021. 23 January 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210123115927/https://www.fina.org/sites/default/files/general/information_bulletin_teams_oqt_rotterdam_february_2021.pdf. dead.
  3. Web site: PR 16 – First meeting of FINA COVID-19 taskforce. fina.org. 12 March 2020 . 12 March 2020.
  4. Web site: Montenegrins, Greeks sit on the clouds, flying to Tokyo. FINA. 20 February 2021. 21 February 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210221062042/http://www.fina.org/news/montenegrins-greeks-sit-clouds-flying-tokyo. dead.
  5. Web site: Croatia nailed it – but Russia was just a penalty-shot away from Tokyo. FINA. 21 February 2021. 21 February 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210221175219/http://www.fina.org/news/croatia-nailed-it-russia-was-just-penalty-shot-away-tokyo. dead.
  6. Web site: Asian Federation decides: Kazakhstan and China go to Tokyo. Ivan Curcic. 14 February 2020. total-waterpolo.com. 15 February 2020.
  7. Web site: Draw for the 2020 WP Olympic qualification tournaments. fina.org. 11 February 2020 . FINA. 11 February 2020.
  8. Web site: Official programme . 2021-01-23 . 2021-01-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210123115927/https://www.fina.org/sites/default/files/general/information_bulletin_teams_oqt_rotterdam_february_2021.pdf . dead .
  9. http://results.microplustiming.com/rotterdam2020/export/EWPC/pdf/WPOMTEAM7---------------------------_76C%201.0.pdf Final ranking

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