This article lists various water polo records and statistics in relation to the Spain men's national water polo team at the Summer Olympics.
The Spain men's national water polo team has participated in 18 of 27 official men's water polo tournaments.
Apps | Appearances | Rk | Rank | Ref | Reference | Cap No. | Water polo cap number | |
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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:
Last updated: 27 July 2021.
Last updated: 27 July 2021.
Last updated: 5 May 2021.
Last updated: 5 May 2021.
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.
Note:
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 | ISHOF member | Note | Ref | |
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1920 | 17 | Starting goalkeeper | ||||||
(Unknown) | ||||||||
1924 | 18 | Starting goalkeeper | ||||||
(Unknown) | ||||||||
1928 | 26 | Starting goalkeeper | ||||||
(Unknown) | ||||||||
1948 | 20 | Starting goalkeeper | ||||||
(Unknown) | ||||||||
1952 | 17 | Starting goalkeeper | ||||||
(Unknown) | ||||||||
1968 | 1 | 23 | ||||||
11 | 20 | |||||||
1972 | 1 | 23 | ||||||
11 | Luis Bestit (2) | 27 | ||||||
1980 | 1 | 25 | ||||||
11 | Salvador Franch (2) | 31 | ||||||
1984 | 1 | 22 | ||||||
13 | 20 | |||||||
1988 | 1 | 20 | 2012 | |||||
11 | Mariano Moya (2) | 24 | ||||||
1992 | 1 | Jesús Rollán (2) | 24 | 2012 | Starting goalkeeper | |||
12 | 27 | |||||||
Year | Cap No. | Goalkeeper | Birth | Age | ISHOF member | Note | Ref |
Year | Cap No. | Goalkeeper | Birth | Age | Saves | Shots | Eff % | ISHOF member | Note | Ref | |
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1996 | 1 | Jesús Rollán (3) | 28 | 62 | 110 | 56.4% | 2012 | Starting goalkeeper | |||
4 | 23 | 0 | 0 | — | |||||||
2000 | 1 | Jesús Rollán (4) | 32 | 58 | 116 | 50.0% | 2012 | Starting goalkeeper | |||
2 | Ángel Andreo (2) | 27 | 0 | 0 | — | ||||||
2004 | 1 | Jesús Rollán (5) | 36 | 5 | 7 | 71.4% | 2012 | ||||
2 | Ángel Andreo (3) | 31 | 50 | 92 | 54.3% | Starting goalkeeper | |||||
2008 | 1 | 24 | 58 | 107 | 54.2% | Starting goalkeeper | |||||
13 | Ángel Andreo (4) | 35 | 1 | 4 | 25.0% | ||||||
2012 | 1 | Iñaki Aguilar (2) | 28 | 52 | 98 | 53.1% | |||||
13 | 32 | 26 | 54 | 48.1% | |||||||
2016 | 1 | Iñaki Aguilar (3) | 32 | 16 | 26 | 61.5% | |||||
13 | Daniel López (2) | 36 | 63 | 115 | 54.8% | Starting goalkeeper | |||||
2020 | 1 | Daniel López (3) | 41 | ||||||||
13 | 19 | ||||||||||
Year | Cap No. | Goalkeeper | Birth | Age | Saves | Shots | Eff % | ISHOF member | Note | Ref |
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): 0
Rk | Sprinter | Birth | Total sprints won | Total sprints contested | Eff % | Water polo tournaments (sprints won / contested) | Age of first/last | ISHOF member | Note | Ref | |||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |||||||||||
1 | 20 | 35 | 57.1% | 2012 (15/25) | 2016 (5/10) | 26/30 | |||||||||
2 | 12 | 38 | 31.6% | 1992 (N/A) | 1996 (N/A) | 2000 (10/27) | 2004 (2/11) | 22/34 | |||||||
3 | 8 | 14 | 57.1% | 2016 (8/14) | 26/26 |
Note:
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.
Spanish water polo player Miki Oca won a silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Four years later, he won a gold medal at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. As a head coach, he guided Spain women's national water polo team to a silver medal at the 2012 London Olympics.
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 Spain.
Six-time Olympian Manuel Estiarte of Spain was the flag bearer during the opening ceremony at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
Some sportspeople from the host nations were chosen to take the Olympic Oath at the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games. As of the 2020 Summer Olympics, one water polo referee from Spain was given the honour.
Eugeni Asensio, a Spanish water polo referee, took the Officials' Oath at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.