Water polo at the 1920 Summer Olympics

Final results for the water polo tournament at the 1920 Summer Olympics.^[1] All medals were decided by using the Bergvall system.^[2]

Men's water polo at the Games of the VII Olympiad
Venue	Stade Nautique d'Antwerp
Dates	22–29 August
Competitors	101 from 12 nations
Medalists
Great Britain  Great Britain Belgium  Belgium Sweden  Sweden
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Squads

Main article: Water polo at the 1920 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads

Medal summary

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Great Britain (GBR)^[1] Charles Sydney Smith Paul Radmilovic Charles Bugbee Noel Purcell Christopher Jones William Peacock William Henry Dean	Belgium (BEL) Albert Durant Gérard Blitz Maurice Blitz Joseph Pletinckx Paul Gailly Pierre Nijs René Bauwens Pierre Dewin	Sweden (SWE) Harald Julin Robert Andersson Vilhelm Andersson Erik Bergqvist Max Gumpel Pontus Hanson Erik Andersson Nils Backlund Theodor Nauman Torsten Kumfeldt^[a]

Results

Gold medal round

	Round of 12					Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Final
						Great Britain (GBR)		9
	Spain (ESP)		1			Spain (ESP)		0
	Italy (ITA)		1^[b]								Great Britain (GBR)		7
											United States (USA)		2
						United States (USA)		7
						Greece (GRE)		0
																Great Britain (GBR)		3
	Belgium (BEL)		11													Belgium (BEL)		2
	Switzerland (SUI)		0			Belgium (BEL)		2
						Netherlands (NED)		1
											Belgium (BEL)		5
	Sweden (SWE)		11								Sweden (SWE)		3
	Czechoslovakia (TCH)		0			Sweden (SWE)		7
	Brazil (BRA)		5			Brazil (BRA)		3
	France (FRA)		1

Silver medal round

	Semifinals					Final
	United States (USA)		5
	Spain (ESP)		0			United States (USA)		2
						Belgium (BEL)		7

Bronze medal round

	Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Final
						Sweden (SWE)		9
	Netherlands (NED)		7			Netherlands (NED)		1
	Czechoslovakia (TCH)		0								Sweden (SWE)		5
											United States (USA)		0
						United States (USA)		7
	Greece (GRE)		5			Greece (GRE)		0
	Italy (ITA)		1

Notes

1. This competitor is missing from the IOC medal database but is shown by Wudarski/de Wael/Mallon/Kamper. He probably played two matches.
2. Italy forfeited the match in extra time.

References

1. "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 17 November 2019.

Sources

• PDF documents in the LA84 Foundation Digital Library:
  • Official Report of the 1920 Olympic Games (download, ) (p. 130)
• Water polo on the Olympedia website
  • Water polo at the 1920 Summer Olympics (men's tournament)
• Water polo on the Sports Reference
  • () (archived)