Water polo at the 1984 Summer Olympics explained

Event:	Water polo
Games:	1984 Summer
Venue:	Raleigh Runnels Memorial Pool
Dates:	1–10 August 1984
Competitors:	153
Nations:	12
Prev:	1980
Next:	1988

The water polo tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics was held from 1 to 10 August 1984, at the Raleigh Runnels Memorial Pool in Malibu, California.^[1] The tournament featured 12 teams, playing two rounds of round-robin play: preliminaries and finals.^[2] ^[3]

Water polo was one of the four aquatic sports held at the 1984 Games, along with swimming, diving, and synchronized swimming, which was held for the first time.

Qualification^[4]

Qualification	Date	Host	Berths
Host nation	18 May 1978	Athens	1
1982 World Championships	30 July–7 August 1982	Guayaquil	6 3





Intercontinental qualification	13–22 April 1984		5
Wildcards			3


Total			12

Teams

12 teams played in the 1984 Olympic tournament:

The top 8 teams qualified for the 1985 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup in Duisburg, West Germany.

Squads

See main article: Water polo at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads.

Tournament play

The tournament was set up into 2 levels of round-robin play: preliminary play in 3 groups; and final play in 2 groups. The top 2 teams from each preliminary group (shaded ones) advanced to Group D and played for the top-6 places; the bottom 2 teams from each preliminary group played in Group E to determine places 7-12.

Preliminary round

Group A

width=10px bgcolor="#ccffcc"		Qualified for second group stage

width=160	Team	width=30		width=30		width=30		width=30	width=30	width=30	width=30	width=30
	3	3	0	0	34	16	+18	6
	3	2	0	1	25	26	–1	4
	3	1	0	2	21	27	–6	2
	3	0	0	3	18	29	−11	0

1 August

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	13 - 4
	8 - 10

2 August

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	12 - 7
	10 - 9

3 August

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	6 - 5
	9 - 5

Group B

width=10px bgcolor="#ccffcc"		Qualified for second group stage

width=160	Team	width=30		width=30		width=30		width=30	width=30	width=30	width=30	width=30
	3	3	0	0	32	17	+15	6
	3	2	0	1	39	31	+8	4
	3	0	1	2	23	33	–10	1
	3	0	1	2	25	38	−13	1

1 August

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	19 - 12
	12 - 5

2 August

width=200		width=100	width=200
	12 - 9
	10 - 4

3 August

width=200		width=100	width=200
	9 - 9
	8 - 10

Group C

width=10px bgcolor="#ccffcc"		Qualified for second group stage

width=160	Team	width=30		width=30		width=30		width=30	width=30	width=30	width=30	width=30
	3	3	0	0	35	18	+17	6
	3	1	1	1	29	20	+9	3
	3	1	1	1	27	23	+4	3
	3	0	0	3	15	45	−30	0

1 August

width=200		width=100	width=200
	15 - 5
	10 - 6

2 August

width=200		width=100	width=200
	8 - 8
	15 - 8

3 August

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	2 - 15
	10 - 4

Final round

Group D

	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	9	5	4	1	0	47	33	+14
2.	9	5	4	1	0	43	34	+9
3.	5	5	2	1	2	49	34	+15
4.	4	5	1	2	2	42	46	- 4
5.	3	5	1	1	3	37	48	- 11
6.	0	5	0	0	5	25	48	- 23

6 August

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	6 - 9
	8 - 7
	8 - 8

7 August

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	12 - 7
	10 - 9
	8 - 4

9 August

width=200		width=100	width=200
	8 - 7
	7 - 8
	8 - 14

10 August

width=200		width=100	width=200
	15 - 2
	10 - 10
	5 - 5

Group E

	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
7.	9	5	4	1	0	63	34	+29
8.	8	5	3	2	0	52	41	+11
9.	6	5	3	0	2	44	39	+5
10.	3	5	1	1	3	40	48	- 8
11.	2	5	1	0	4	30	55	- 25
12.	2	5	0	2	3	40	52	- 12

6 August

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	10 - 4
	11 - 8
	13 - 4

7 August

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	14 - 7
	11 - 8
	10 - 10

9 August

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	11 - 9
	8 - 5
	8 - 8

10 August

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	9 - 8
	16 - 9
	10 - 9

Final ranking




4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Medalists

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Goals
1		34
2		19
3		18
4		17
5		16
	16
	16
8		15
	15
	15
	15
12		14

Sources

PDF documents in the LA84 Foundation Digital Library:
- Official Report of the 1984 Olympic Games, v.2 (download, archive) (pp. 528–534)
Water polo on the Olympedia website
- Water polo at the 1984 Summer Olympics (men's tournament)
Water polo on the Sports Reference website
- Water polo at the 1984 Summer Games (men's tournament) (archived)

Notes and References

Official Report of the Games of the XXIIIrd Olympiad Los Angeles 1984 Volume 2: Competition Summary and results (note: this file is 50.8MB). Originally published in print form by the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee in 1985; digitally published by the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles in 1998, retrieved 15 March 2012.
mog . dmy .
Web site: Water Polo at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417043055/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1984/WAP/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 7 December 2019.
Web site: Men_1984. Todor66.