Water polo at the 1972 Summer Olympics explained

Event:	Water polo
Games:	1972 Summer
Venues:	Dantebad Olympia Schwimmhalle (final)
Date:	27 August – 4 September 1972
Competitors:	176
Nations:	16
Prev:	1968
Next:	1976

Final results for the water polo competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich.^{[1] [2]}

Qualification^[3]

Event	Dates	Hosts	Quotas	Qualified Teams
Host Nation	26 April 1966	Rome	1
1968 Summer Olympics	14-26 October 1968	Mexico City	5
1971 Pan American Games	26 July - 1 August 1971	Cali	3
European Qualifier	14-20 May 1972	Munich	4
Oceania Qualifier			1
Asian Qualifier			1
Reallocation			1
Total			16

Squads

See main article: Water polo at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads.

Preliminary round

Pool A

Nation	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
	5	5	0	0	31	18
	5	4	0	1	35	24
	5	3	0	2	28	23
	5	2	0	3	38	26
	5	1	0	4	25	30
	5	0	0	5	14	50

width=20%		width=12%	27 August	width=20%		width=8%	1st	width=8%	2nd	width=8%	3rd	width=8%	4th
	12-4		3-1	4-1	3-1	2-1
	4-6		1-2	0-1	1-1	2-2
	3-4		0-1	1-2	1-0	1-1

width=20%		width=12%	28 August	width=20%		width=8%	1st	width=8%	2nd	width=8%	3rd	width=8%	4th
	7-6		1-1	1-0	2-1	3-4
	7-3		2-1	0-1	1-0	4-1
	7-8		3-2	2-1	2-2	0-3

width=20%		width=12%	29 August	width=20%		width=8%	1st	width=8%	2nd	width=8%	3rd	width=8%	4th
	8-1		2-0	3-0	1-0	2-1
	3-5		0-1	1-1	1-3	1-0
	3-4		0-2	2-1	0-1	1-0

width=20%		width=12%	30 August	width=20%		width=8%	1st	width=8%	2nd	width=8%	3rd	width=8%	4th
	7-5		0-2	3-1	2-1	2-1
	16-4		1-1	6-1	5-1	4-1
	5-7		1-1	1-4	1-1	2-1

width=20%		width=12%	31 August	width=20%		width=8%	1st	width=8%	2nd	width=8%	3rd	width=8%	4th
	7-2		2-0	2-0	1-2	2-0
	3-5		0-1	1-1	1-2	1-1
	9-6		2-2	3-1	2-0	2-3

Pool B

Nation	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
	4	3	1	0	22	6
	4	2	2	0	21	13
	4	2	1	1	14	11
	4	0	1	3	14	27
	4	0	1	3	13	27

width=20%		width=12%	27 August	width=20%		width=8%	1st	width=8%	2nd	width=8%	3rd	width=8%	4th
	3-0		0-0	2-0	0-0	1-0
	7-7		3-3	2-1	1-2	1-1

width=20%		width=12%	28 August	width=20%		width=8%	1st	width=8%	2nd	width=8%	3rd	width=8%	4th
	2-4		1-0	0-0	0-1	1-3
	3-3		1-0	0-1	0-2	2-0

width=20%		width=12%	29 August	width=20%		width=8%	1st	width=8%	2nd	width=8%	3rd	width=8%	4th
	4-4		2-1	1-0	0-1	1-2
	1-6		0-3	0-0	0-2	1-1

width=20%		width=12%	30 August	width=20%		width=8%	1st	width=8%	2nd	width=8%	3rd	width=8%	4th
	2-10		0-3	1-2	0-3	1-2
	8-3		3-1	3-1	1-1	1-0

width=20%		width=12%	31 August	width=20%		width=8%	1st	width=8%	2nd	width=8%	3rd	width=8%	4th
	6-3		1-1	2-0	1-0	2-2
	2-6		1-0	0-2	1-3	0-1

Pool C

Nation	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
	4	4	0	0	30	9
	4	3	0	1	27	16
	4	2	0	2	19	22
	4	1	0	3	18	25
	4	0	0	4	14	36

width=20%		width=12%	28 August	width=20%		width=8%	1st	width=8%	2nd	width=8%	3rd	width=8%	4th
	6-4		2-1	1-2	1-1	2-0
	1-4		1-0	0-2	0-2	0-0

width=20%		width=12%	28 August	width=20%		width=8%	1st	width=8%	2nd	width=8%	3rd	width=8%	4th
	11-1		1-0	4-1	3-0	3-0
	8-5		3-1	3-2	2-1	0-1

width=20%		width=12%	29 August	width=20%		width=8%	1st	width=8%	2nd	width=8%	3rd	width=8%	4th
	7-2		2-0	2-1	2-0	1-1
	6-2		1-0	0-1	2-1	3-0

width=20%		width=12%	30 August	width=20%		width=8%	1st	width=8%	2nd	width=8%	3rd	width=8%	4th
	7-4		3-1	0-1	2-1	2-1
	5-8		0-1	1-2	2-2	2-3

width=20%		width=12%	31 August	width=20%		width=8%	1st	width=8%	2nd	width=8%	3rd	width=8%	4th
	12-5		4-1	3-0	1-1	4-3
	6-4		0-0	2-1	2-1	2-2

Final round

Group II (Classification 7th – 12th)

Pos.	Nation	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
7		5	4	1	0	29	20
8		5	3	1	1	24	19
9		5	3	1	1	24	23
10		5	2	0	3	26	26
11		5	0	2	3	17	23
12		5	0	1	4	18	27

width=20%		width=16%	1 September	width=20%		width=8%	1st	width=8%	2nd	width=8%	3rd	width=8%	4th
	7-4		1-2	2-0	0-0	4-2
	5-2		1-0	0-1	2-1	2-0
	6-5		1-1	3-2	1-1	1-1

width=20%		width=16%	2 September	width=20%		width=8%	1st	width=8%	2nd	width=8%	3rd	width=8%	4th
	4-3		2-2	1-0	1-0	0-1
	4-8		0-1	2-1	1-3	1-3
	6-8		2-1	2-5	0-2	2-0

width=20%		width=16%	3 September	width=20%		width=8%	1st	width=8%	2nd	width=8%	3rd	width=8%	4th
	4-4		2-2	1-0	1-1	0-1
	5-5		2-2	1-2	0-1	2-0
	4-3		2-1	1-2	0-0	1-0

width=20%		width=16%	4 September	width=20%		width=8%	1st	width=8%	2nd	width=8%	3rd	width=8%	4th
	4-4		0-0	2-3	1-0	1-1
	5-3		1-1	2-1	1-0	1-1
	7-5		0-1	3-0	2-2	2-2

Results taken from Preliminary Round

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	4-3		?-?	?-?	?-?	?-?
	4-2		?-?	?-?	?-?	?-?
	6-4		?-?	?-?	?-?	?-?

Group I (Classification Gold – 6th)

Pos.	Nation	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
1		5	3	2	0	22	16
2		5	3	2	0	23	18
3		5	2	2	1	24	23
4		5	0	3	2	15	18
5		5	1	1	3	20	24
6		5	0	2	3	21	26

width=20%		width=16%	1 September	width=20%		width=8%	1st	width=8%	2nd	width=8%	3rd	width=8%	4th
	8-7		1-0	2-1	3-4	2-2
	4-4		3-1	1-1	0-0	0-2
	4-5		1-2	0-2	2-0	1-1

width=20%		width=16%	2 September	width=20%		width=8%	1st	width=8%	2nd	width=8%	3rd	width=8%	4th
	6-6		2-2	2-1	1-1	1-2
	2-4		1:1	1:3	0:0	0:0
	3-5		0-0	1-2	2-2	0-1

width=20%		width=16%	3 September	width=20%		width=8%	1st	width=8%	2nd	width=8%	3rd	width=8%	4th
	2-2		1-2	0-0	0-0	1-0
	2-4		0-1	1-1	0-1	1-1
	6-6		0-1	3-1	2-2	1-2

width=20%		width=16%	4 September	width=20%		width=8%	1st	width=8%	2nd	width=8%	3rd	width=8%	4th
	5-4		3-0	0-1	1-1	1-2
	6-5		2-1	1-1	2-1	1-2
	3-3		2-1	1-1	0-1	0-0

Results taken from Preliminary Round

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	5-3		?-?	?-?	?-?	?-?
	4-1		?-?	?-?	?-?	?-?
	3-3		0-1	1-0	0-2	2-0

Final ranking

1. ^[1]

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Goals
1	Carlos Sanchez	18
2	Bruce Bradley	17
3	Mart Bras	16
	Juan Janac
5	Eraldo Pizzo	12
	Gheorghe Zamfirescu
	Les Nunn
8	Aleksandr Dreval	11
	Ingulf Nossek
	Gianni De Magistris
	Toma Tomov
	Armando Fernandez
13	Anatoly Akimov	10
	Oleksiy Barkalov
	Viorel Rus

See also

• 1973 FINA Men's World Water Polo Championship

Sources

• PDF documents in the LA84 Foundation Digital Library:
  • Official Report of the 1972 Olympic Games, v.3 (download, archive) (pp. 331, 353–365)
• Water polo on the Olympedia website
  • Water polo at the 1972 Summer Olympics (men's tournament)
• Water polo on the Sports Reference website
  • Water polo at the 1972 Summer Games (men's tournament) (archived)

External links

• Official Olympic Report

Notes and References

1. mog . dmy .
2. Web site: Water Polo at the 1972 Munich Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055241/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1972/WAP/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 2 December 2019.
3. Web site: Men_1972. Todor66.