Water polo at the 2010 Asian Games explained

Event:	Water polo
Games:	2010 Asian Games
Venue:	Tianhe Natatorium
Dates:	15–25 November 2010
Competitors:	168
Nations:	11
Prev:	2006
Next:	2014

Water polo at the 2010 Asian Games was held in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China from November 13 to 25, 2010. In this tournament, nine teams played in the men's competition, while the women's tournament made their first participation with four teams.

Schedule

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Round

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Last round

P

Preliminary round

¼

Quarterfinals

½

Semifinals

F

Finals

Event↓/Date →	15th Mon	16th Tue	17th Wed	18th Thu	19th Fri	20th Sat	21st Sun	22nd Mon	23rd Tue	24th Wed	25th Thu
				P	P	P	P	P	¼	½	F
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Medalists

Men	Alexandr Shvedov Sergey Gubarev Alexandr Gaidukov Murat Shakenov Alexey Panfili Roman Pilipenko Alexandr Axenov Rustam Ukumanov Yevgeniy Zhilyayev Mikhail Ruday Ravil Manafov Azamat Zhulumbetov Nikolay Maximov	Ge Weiqing Tan Feihu Liang Zhongxing Yu Lijun Guo Junliang Pan Ning Li Bin Wang Yang Xie Junmin Wang Beiming Han Zhidong Jiang Bin Huang Meicai	Katsuyuki Tanamura Mitsuaki Shiga Kan Irei Koji Takei Kan Aoyagi Hiroki Wakamatsu Yusuke Shimizu Akira Yanase Koji Kobayashi Yoshinori Shiota Atsushi Naganuma Satoshi Nagata Shota Hazui
Women	Yang Jun Teng Fei Liu Ping Sun Yujun He Jin Sun Yating Song Donglun Zhang Weiwei Wang Yi Ma Huanhuan Sun Huizi Zhang Lei Wang Ying	Galina Rytova Natalya Shepelina Kamila Zakirova Anna Turova Liliya Falaleyeva Anna Zubkova Zamira Myrzabekova Yekaterina Gariyeva Aizhan Akilbayeva Marina Gritsenko Yelena Chebotova Assem Mussarova Alexandra Turova	valign=top	Anastasiya Skovpina Diana Dadabaeva Aleksandra Sarancha Eseniya Piftor Evgeniya Ivanova Natalya Plyusova Anna Shcheglova Ramilya Khalikova Adelina Zinurova Olga Mayorova Anna Plyusova Elena Dukhanova

Draw

The draw ceremony for the team sports was held on 7 October 2010 at Guangzhou. The men were drawn into two groups of five teams, and the women played in round robin format.^[1] The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 2009 Asian Championships.^[2]

Group A

• (Host)
• (3)

Group B

• (2)
• Athletes from Kuwait (4)
  • *

* Iran withdrew shortly after the draw.

Final standing

Women

External links

• Water polo site of 2010 Asian Games

Notes and References

1. Web site: China, Korea, Japan together in water polo. Chinese Olympic Committee. 20 November 2013.
2. Web site: The 8th Asian Water Polo Championships Results. https://web.archive.org/web/20190607212802/http://www.asiaswimmingfederation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/4cedbee900bc52dcce9d8967c09d698f.pdf. dead. 7 June 2019. Asia Swimming Federation. 20 November 2013.