Water polo at the 2006 Asian Games explained

Event:	Water polo
Games:	2006 Asian Games
Venue:	Al-Sadd Aquatic Centre
Dates:	6–14 December 2006
Competitors:	112
Nations:	10
Prev:	2002
Next:	2010

Water polo was contested by men's teams at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar from December 6 to December 14, 2006. Ten teams competed in two round robin groups. All games were staged at the Al-Sadd Aquatic Centre.

Schedule

P

Preliminary round

C

Classification

½

Semifinals

F

Finals

Event↓/Date →	6th Wed	7th Thu	8th Fri	9th Sat	10th Sun	11th Mon	12th Tue	13th Wed	14th Thu
	P	P	P	P	P		½	C	F

Medalists

Men

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Ge Weiqing Wu Zhiyu Tan Feihu Yu Lijun Li Jun Liang Zhongxing Li Bin Wang Yong Guo Junliang Xie Junmin Han Zhidong Liu Siwei

Tomonaga Eguchi Kan Aoyagi Yasuhiro Haraguchi Naofumi Nishikakoi Koji Tanaka Shoichi Sakamoto Koji Kobayashi Atsushi Naganuma Taichi Sato Yoshinori Shiota Hiroshi Hoshiai Satoshi Nagata Hitoshi Oshima

Alexandr Shvedov Sergey Gorovoy Azamat Zhulumbetov Yevgeniy Medvedev Alan Orazalinov Ruslan Orazalinov Damir Temyrkhanov Ivan Zaitsev Rustam Ukumanov Alexandr Gaidukov Ravil Manafov Adil Temyrkhanov Dmitriy Axyonkin

Draw

The draw ceremony for the team sports was held on 7 September 2006 at Doha.^[1]

Group A

Group B

Squads

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valign=top	Ge Weiqing Wu Zhiyu Tan Feihu Yu Lijun Li Jun Liang Zhongxing Li Bin Wang Yong Guo Junliang Xie Junmin Han Zhidong Liu Siwei	valign=top	Cheung Man Bun Jonathan Lo Koo Yu Fat Miguel Antonio Wong Klint Fung Fu Yiu Howard Wong Ku Yat Wa Tam Hin Wing Chung Ching Nam Albert Chan John Wong Douglas Woo	valign=top	Alireza Shahidipour Bahman Mouchehkiani Saeid Mirmehdi Milad Mohammadi Mohammad Mehdi Tayyeran Mehdi Karami Amir Abbas Akbarnejad Soheil Khadempir Kambiz Rakhshanimehr Yashar Soltani Arameh Aghazarian Mohsen Rezvani Meisam Jafari	valign=top	Tomonaga Eguchi Kan Aoyagi Yasuhiro Haraguchi Naofumi Nishikakoi Koji Tanaka Shoichi Sakamoto Koji Kobayashi Atsushi Naganuma Taichi Sato Yoshinori Shiota Hiroshi Hoshiai Satoshi Nagata Hitoshi Oshima
valign=top	Alexandr Shvedov Sergey Gorovoy Azamat Zhulumbetov Yevgeniy Medvedev Alan Orazalinov Ruslan Orazalinov Damir Temyrkhanov Ivan Zaitsev Rustam Ukumanov Alexandr Gaidukov Ravil Manafov Adil Temyrkhanov Dmitriy Axyonkin	valign=top	The water polo team of the Philippines had withdrawn from the Asian Games, but the withdrawal was not properly relayed to the event organizers. Thus, the Philippine water polo team remained in the 10-team roster of the competition.	valign=top	Saad Al-Oulan Mohammed Hamad Ali Abdin Mohammed Al-Shahrani Abdulla Al-Obaidli Abdulla Al-Hammadi Ali Al-Lingawi Morshid Al-Robaan Mohammed Al-Kuwari Nayef Al-Shahrani Abdulla Al-Shahrani Hassan Al-Hammadi Ahmed Al-Hammadi	valign=top	Bandar Al-Zahrani Baseem Al-Harbi Adel Al-Najjar Yasser Al-Zahrani Saleh Al-Zahrani Khaled Al-Malki Ahmed Al-Shammari Khaled Al-Harbi Waleed Al-Ghamdi Adel Al-Malki Hussain Jazani Yousri Al-Laili Nasser Al-Dughather
valign=top	Maeng Sung-hoon Park Jun-jong Kim Hyun-jong Lee Sang-young Kim Won-min Jung Ju-hwa Lee Myung-woo Baek Won-ki Park Bong-soo Kim Jong-whan	valign=top	Nikita Manakov Ivan Spiridonov Ravil Valishev Andrey Gorodchanin Vangelis Divin Rais Kovyazin Aleksandr Yashnov Artyom Mormul Vyacheslav Gorshkov Stepan Palchikov Maksim Pashkanov Timur Kayumov	valign=top		valign=top

Results

All times are Arabia Standard Time

Preliminaries

Group A

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Group B

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Classification 5th–8th

Semifinals

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Final 5th–6th

Final round

Semifinals

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Gold medal match

Final standing

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		6	6	0	0
		6	4	0	2
		6	4	1	1
4		6	3	1	2
5		6	4	0	2
6		6	2	0	4
7		6	3	0	3
8		6	1	0	5
9		5	1	0	4
10		5	0	0	5

References

• All Asian Games Results

External links

• Water Polo Competition Schedule

Notes and References

1. Web site: Asian Games waterpolo draw. 24 November 2006. People's Daily. 29 November 2013.