Water polo at the 1984 Summer Olympics
The XXIII. 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles took place a water polo tournament for men. Venue was the Raleigh Runnels Memorial Pool on the campus of Pepperdine University in Malibu.
- 2.1 Final Round
Tournament
Directly qualified for the Olympic tournament addition to the host (USA), the first five teams in the World Cup 1982 ( Soviet Union, Hungary, West Germany, Netherlands, Cuba). The Soviet Union was also a 1980 Olympic gold medalist and reigning world champion, why Yugoslavia nachrückte as WM- seventh. The remaining five grid positions were determined from 13 to 22 April 1984 a tournament in Rome; this is Italy, Spain, Australia, Greece and China prevailed. After the Soviet Union, Hungary and Cuba had decided to boycott the 1984 Olympic Games, the runners moved the qualifying tournament after (Canada, Brazil, Japan).
The two best teams in the three groups of four preliminary round then played in the final round for the places 1 to 6, the third and fourth teams finishing for places 7-12 (direct encounters in the first round also included for the final result).
Medalist
Preliminary round
Group A
Group B
Group C
Final round
Group D
Group E
Source
- Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games - The Chronicle. Volume III, Sports Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5, pp. 1011-1013.
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- Competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Water polo at the Summer Olympics