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Water polo at the 1908 Summer Olympics

At the 1908 Summer Olympics, a water polo tournament was contested.[1][2]

Men's water polo
at the Games of the IV Olympiad
DatesJuly 15 (quarterfinal)
July 20 (semifinal)
July 22 (final)
Competitors28 from 4 nations
Medalists
 Great Britain (GBR)
 Belgium (BEL)
 Sweden (SWE)
← 1904
1912 →
Official 1908 Highlight Film Water Polo @ 1:06

Medal table edit

Position Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
1   Great Britain 1 0 0 1
2   Belgium 0 1 0 1
3   Sweden 0 0 1 1
  Netherlands 0 0 0 0

Medal summary edit

Team rosters edit

Belgium edit

 
team Belgium

Great Britain edit

Netherlands edit

Sweden edit

Results edit

Matches edit

First round edit

There was only one first round match, between Belgium and the Netherlands.

Great Britain, Sweden, and Austria had byes, but Austria withdrew after the draw.

Semi-finals edit

As Austria had withdrawn, Great Britain had a walkover to the final, with Belgium playing Sweden to determine their opponent.

Belgium 8 - 4 Sweden
Grégoire 3, Meyboom 2,
Pletinckx 2, Feyaerts
(4 - 2) Hanson 3, Andersson

Final edit

Great Britain's first and only match was against Belgium, who had already won two games in the tournament.

Belgium 2 - 9 Great Britain
Feyaerts, Grégoire (2 - 5) Wilkinson 4, Forsyth 3,
Radmilovic 2

Ranking and statistics edit

Place Team Played Wins Losses Draws Goals Against Diff. Points
1   Great Britain 1 1 0 0 9 2 + 7 2
2   Belgium 3 2 0 1 18 14 + 4 4
3   Sweden 1 0 0 1 4 8 - 4 0
4   Netherlands 1 0 0 1 1 8 - 7 0

Scoring edit

11 players scored during the three games of the tournament, including 5 of Belgium's poloists. The Belgian captain's 8 goals led the field, and he also gained the distinctions of having scored in each of the three games as well as the single-game high goal count at 6.

References edit

  1. ^ a b "HistoFINA – Water polo medalists and statistics" (PDF). fina.org. FINA. September 2019. p. 4. (PDF) from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  2. ^ . Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 16 November 2019.

Sources edit

  • PDF documents in the LA84 Foundation Digital Library:
    • Official Report of the 1908 Olympic Games (download, ) (pp. 359–361)
  • Water polo on the Olympedia website
    • Water polo at the 1908 Summer Olympics (men's tournament)
  • Water polo on the Sports Reference
    • () (archived)

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