This article lists various water polo records and statistics in relation to the Serbia men's national water polo team at the Summer Olympics.
The Serbia men's national water polo team has participated in 4 of 27 official men's water polo tournaments.
| Apps | Appearances | Rk | Rank | Ref | Reference | Cap No. | Water polo cap number | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pos | Playing position | FP | Field player | GK | Goalkeeper | ISHOF | International Swimming Hall of Fame | |
| L/R | Handedness | L | Left-handed | R | Right-handed | Oly debut | Olympic debut in water polo | |
| (C) | Captain | p. | page | pp. | pages |
See also: National team appearances in the men's Olympic water polo tournament.
Notes:
| Men's team | 00 | 04 | 08 | 12 | 20 | 24 | 28 | 32 | 36 | 48 | 52 | 56 | 60 | 64 | 68 | 72 | 76 | 80 | 84 | 88 | 92 | 96 | 00 | 04 | 08 | 12 | 16 | 20 | Years | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | — | Part of Yugoslavia | P. of / | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| † | — | — | — | — | 10 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Defunct | 12 | ||||||||||||
| † | — | — | — | — | Part of Yugoslavia | — | 8 | 3 | Defunct | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| † | — | — | — | — | Part of Yugoslavia | See | 2 | Defunct | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Total teams | 7 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 5 | 16 | 18 | 21 | 10 | 16 | 13 | 15 | 16 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | |||
Last updated: 11 August 2024.
Last updated: 11 August 2024.
Last updated: 11 August 2024.
Last updated: 11 August 2024.
See also: List of players who have appeared in multiple men's Olympic water polo tournaments.
The following table is pre-sorted by number of Olympic appearances (in descending order), year of the last Olympic appearance (in ascending order), year of the first Olympic appearance (in ascending order), date of birth (in ascending order), name of the player (in ascending order), respectively.
See also: List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men).
The following table is pre-sorted by total number of Olympic medals (in descending order), number of Olympic gold medals (in descending order), number of Olympic silver medals (in descending order), year of receiving the last Olympic medal (in ascending order), year of receiving the first Olympic medal (in ascending order), name of the player (in ascending order), respectively.
See also: List of men's Olympic water polo tournament top goalscorers.
The following table is pre-sorted by number of total goals (in descending order), year of the last Olympic appearance (in ascending order), year of the first Olympic appearance (in ascending order), name of the player (in ascending order), respectively.
See also: List of men's Olympic water polo tournament goalkeepers.
The following table is pre-sorted by edition of the Olympics (in ascending order), cap number or name of the goalkeeper (in ascending order), respectively.
Last updated: 27 July 2021.
| Year | Cap No. | Goalkeeper | Birth | Age | Saves | Shots | Eff % | ISHOF member | Note | Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 1 | Denis Šefik (2) | 31 | 22 | 43 | 51.2% | |||||
| 13 | 29 | 57 | 93 | 61.3% | Starting goalkeeper | ||||||
| 2012 | 1 | Slobodan Soro (2) | 33 | 75 | 135 | 55.6% | Starting goalkeeper | ||||
| 13 | 29 | 11 | 17 | 64.7% | |||||||
| 2016 | 1 | Gojko Pijetlović (2) | 33 | 14 | 21 | 66.7% | |||||
| 13 | 31 | 60 | 119 | 50.4% | Starting goalkeeper | ||||||
| 2020 | 1 | Gojko Pijetlović (3) | 38 | ||||||||
| 13 | Branislav Mitrović (2) | 36 | |||||||||
| Year | Cap No. | Goalkeeper | Birth | Age | Saves | Shots | Eff % | ISHOF member | Note | Ref |
Notes:
The following table is pre-sorted by number of total sprints won (in descending order), year of the last Olympic appearance (in ascending order), year of the first Olympic appearance (in ascending order), name of the sprinter (in ascending order), respectively.
* Number of sprinters (30+ sprints won, since 2000): 1
| Rk | Sprinter | Birth | Total sprints won | Total sprints contested | Eff % | Water polo tournaments (sprints won / contested) | Age of first/last | ISHOF member | Note | Ref | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |||||||||||
| 1 | 40 | 56 | 71.4% | 2000 FRY (17/24) | 2004 SCG (14/20) | 2008 SRB (9/12) | 22/30 | ||||||||
| 2 | 10 | 22 | 45.5% | 2008 (8/15) | 2012 (2/6) | 2016 (0/1) | 21/29 | ||||||||
| 3 | 7 | 11 | 63.6% | 2012 (7/11) | 20/20 | ||||||||||
| 7 | 20 | 35.0% | 2012 (3/8) | 2016 (4/12) | 24/28 | ||||||||||
| 5 | 6 | 19 | 31.6% | 2008 (1/4) | 2012 (2/7) | 2016 (3/8) | 26/33 | ||||||||
| 6 | 5 | 11 | 45.5% | 2016 (5/11) | 25/25 | ||||||||||
The following table is pre-sorted by total number of Olympic medals (in descending order), number of Olympic gold medals (in descending order), number of Olympic silver medals (in descending order), year of winning the last Olympic medal (in ascending order), year of winning the first Olympic medal (in ascending order), name of the person (in ascending order), respectively. Last updated: 5 May 2021.
As a water polo player, Dejan Savić won three consecutive Olympic medals between 2000 and 2008. At the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, he coached Serbia men's national team to the Olympic title.
| Rk | Person | Birth | Height | Player | Head coach | Total medals | Ref | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Men's team | Pos | Medal | Age | Men's team | Medal | G | S | B | T | |||||
| 1 | 25 | FP | 2000 | 41 | 2016 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||||||
| 29 | FP | 2004 | |||||||||||||
| 33 | FP | 2008 | |||||||||||||
See also: List of Olympic champions in men's water polo.
Some sportspeople were chosen to carry the national flag of their country at the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games. As of the 2020 Summer Olympics, one male water polo player was given the honour to carry the flag for Serbia.