Water polo at the 1912 Summer Olympics
The 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm saw the fourth water polo tournament at Olympics.[1] All games took place in the newly built swimming stadium in Djurgårdsbrunnsviken from 7 to 16 July 1912. All medals were decided by using the Bergvall system.[2]
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| Venue | Djurgårdsbrunnsviken | |||||||||
| Dates | 7–16 July | |||||||||
| Competitors | 46 from 6 nations | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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Medal summary
The competitions in water polo were arranged on the Cup Tie (elimination) system, but in such a way that the necessary number of matches had to be played for the second and third prizes between the teams qualified to take part in these rounds. The principle was adopted that a team which had not been beaten, direct or indirect, by a team that was qualified to fight for the second or third prize, should have the right to play against the team last-mentioned, even if it (the first-named) had already been beaten by some other team. The teams entered were drawn in pairs for the first round, after which the order in which they were to meet in the second round was determined by drawing lots, so that the order in which the games were to be played, right up to the final, was fixed before the games began.
Participating nations
A total of 45 water polo players from 6 nations competed at the Stockholm Games:
Bracket
| First round | Second round | Gold medal match | ||||||||
| 7 July - Djurgårdsbrunnsviken | ||||||||||
 Great Britain (a.e.t.) | 7 | |||||||||
| 11 July - Djurgårdsbrunnsviken | ||||||||||
.svg.png.webp){kind=small} Belgium | 5 | |||||||||
| Great Britain | 6 | |||||||||
| 8 July - Djurgårdsbrunnsviken | ||||||||||
 Sweden | 3 | |||||||||
| Sweden | 7 | |||||||||
| 13 July - Djurgårdsbrunnsviken | ||||||||||
 France | 2 | |||||||||
| Great Britain | 8 | |||||||||
 Austria | 0 | |||||||||
| Austria | ||||||||||
| 9 July - Djurgårdsbrunnsviken | ||||||||||
| No Opponent | ||||||||||
| Austria | 5 | |||||||||
.svg.png.webp){kind=small} Hungary | 4 | |||||||||
Main Tournament to Gold
| First Round | |||||||||||||||
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| 7 July | Great Britain (GBR) |
7 | - | 5 | Belgium (BEL) |
after extra time | |||||||||
| Hill (2), Wilkinson (2), Radmilovic (2), Bentham | (2 | - | 3) | Grégoire (2), Meyboom (2), Nijs | |||||||||||
| 8 July | Sweden (SWE) |
7 | - | 2 | France (FRA) | ||||||||||
| R. Andersson (3), Bergqvist (3), ? | (4 | - | 0) | Decoin, Provost | |||||||||||
| 9 July | Austria (AUT) |
5 | - | 4 | Hungary (HUN) |
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| Scheff, ? | (1 | - | 2) | Fazekas, Hégner, Rémi, ? | |||||||||||
| Second Round | |||||||||||||||
| 11 July | Great Britain (GBR) |
6 | - | 3 | Sweden (SWE) | ||||||||||
| Wilkinson (3), Hill, Radmilovic, Bentham | (3 | - | 0) | R. Andersson (2), V. Andersson | |||||||||||
| Gold medal match | |||||||||||||||
| 13 July | Great Britain (GBR) |
8 | - | 0 | Austria (AUT) | ||||||||||
| ? | (4 | - | 0) | ||||||||||||
Tournament to Silver |
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| First Round | |||||||||||||||
| 10 July | Belgium (BEL) |
6 | - | 5 | Hungary (HUN) |
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| ? | (2 | - | 3) | Fazekas (3), Rémi, ? | |||||||||||
| 11 July | Belgium (BEL) |
4 | - | 1 | France (FRA) | ||||||||||
| ? | (2 | - | 1) | ? | |||||||||||
| Second Round | |||||||||||||||
| 14 July | Sweden (SWE) |
8 | - | 1 | Austria (AUT) |
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| R. Andersson (3), Bergqvist (3), V. Andersson (2) | (5 | - | 1) | Scheff | |||||||||||
| 15 July | Belgium (BEL) |
5 | - | 4 | Austria (AUT) | ||||||||||
| ? | (2 | - | 1) | Scheff, ? | |||||||||||
| Silver and Bronze medal match | |||||||||||||||
| 16 July | Sweden (SWE) |
4 | - | 2 | Belgium (BEL) | ||||||||||
| Bergqvist (2), V. Andersson, R. Andersson | (4 | - | 0) | ? | |||||||||||
Final standings
References
- "HistoFINA – Water polo medalists and statistics" (PDF). fina.org. FINA. September 2019. p. 4. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 August 2020. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
- "Water Polo at the 1912 Stockholm Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
Sources
- PDF documents in the LA84 Foundation Digital Library:
- Official Report of the 1912 Olympic Games (download, archive) (pp. 1021–1024, 1031–1037)
- Water polo on the Olympedia website
- Water polo on the Sports Reference website
- Water polo at the 1912 Summer Games (men's tournament) (archived)
External links
- Bergvall, Erik (ed.) (1913). Adams-Ray, Edward (trans.). (ed.). The Official Report of the Olympic Games of Stockholm 1912. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
- International Olympic Committee medal database
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