Water polo was contested at the 2011 Summer Universiade from August 11 to August 23 at the Bao’an Natatorium in Shenzhen, China.[1]
| Men | Branislav Mitrović Luka Šaponjić Marko Matović Srđan Vuksanović Miloš Miličić Boris Vapenski Strahinja Rašović Nikola Dedović Nemanja Ubović Marko Petković Petar Filipović Aleksa Šaponjić Stefan Živojinović | Victor Ivanov Nikita Yankov Artem Odintsov Alexey Ryzhov Alenichev Yury Cheshev Dmitry Antipov Pavel Khalturin Artur Fatakhutdinov Kirill Novoksenov Victor Vishniakov Sergey Lisunov Nikolay Lazarev Egor Rastorguev | Miloš Marinković Kristijan Manaskov Saša Mišić Dimitar Dimovski Uroš Kalinić Igor Milanović Milan Petrović Martin Pulejkovski Miroslav Randjić Vedran Circović Boris Letica Mario Sinadinovski Bojan Janevski | |
| Women | Yang Jun Teng Fei Liu Ping Sun Yujun He Jin Sun Yating Song Donglun Chen Yuan Wang Yi Ma Huanhuan Wang Zhujia Zhang Lei Wang Ying | Amber Oland Grace Reynolds Pallavi Menon Alyssa Lo Forel Davies Leah Robertson Nadia Dan Julie Oreglia Stephanie Schnugg Adriana Vogt Caroline Clark Kimberly Benedetti Cassandra Wyckoff | Anna Ustyukhina Diana Antonova Elena Garipova Victoria Kurochkina Alena Vylegzhanina Natalia Okuneva Anna Bogdanova Olga Belova Oleksandra Karpovich Marina Kalyagina Anna Timofeeva Maria Akhtyrchenko Olesya Abaimova |
See main article: Water polo at the 2011 Summer Universiade – Men's tournament. The men's tournament was held from August 11 to August 23. A maximum of sixteen teams would compete.
See main article: Water polo at the 2011 Summer Universiade – Women's tournament. The women's tournament was held from August 12 to August 22. A maximum of ten teams would compete.