Water polo at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Water polo
at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
VenuesPiscina delle Rose
Stadio Olimpico del Nuoto
Date25 August – 3 September 1960
Competitors150 from 16 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Italy
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Hungary
← 1956
1964 →

Final results for the water polo tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics.[1][2]

Qualification[3]

Event Dates Hosts Quotas Qualified Teams
Host Nation 15 June 1955 France Paris 1  Italy
1956 Summer Olympics 28 November - 7 December 1956 Australia Melbourne 6  Hungary

 Yugoslavia

 Soviet Union

 United States

 United Team of Germany (EUA)

 Romania

Oceania Qualifier 24 February 1960 Australia Melbourne 1  Australia
European & Middle East Qualifier 18 June 1960 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Zagreb 1  United Arab Republic
25-26 June 1960 Netherlands Groningen 1  Belgium
26 June 1960 Italy Camogli 1  France
American Qualifier 2  Brazil
 Argentina
Asian Qualifier 1  Japan
African Qualifier 1  South Africa
Wild Card 1  Netherlands
Total 16

Medal summary

Gold Silver Bronze
 Italy[1]
Amedeo Ambron
Danio Bardi
Giuseppe D'Altrui
Salvatore Gionta
Giancarlo Guerrini
Franco Lavoratori
Gianni Lonzi
Luigi Mannelli
Rosario Parmegiani
Eraldo Pizzo
Dante Rossi
Brunello Spinelli
 Soviet Union
Viktor Ageev
Givi Chikvanaia
Leri Gogoladze
Boris Goykhman
Yury Grigorovsky
Anatoly Kartashov
Vyacheslav Kurennoy
P'et're Mshveniyeradze
Vladimir Novikov
Yevgeny Saltsyn
Vladimir Semyonov
 Hungary
András Bodnár
Ottó Boros
Zoltán Dömötör
László Felkai
Dezső Gyarmati
István Hevesi
László Jeney
Tivadar Kanizsa
György Kárpáti
András Katona
János Konrád
Kálmán Markovits
Mihály Mayer
Péter Rusorán

Results

For the team rosters see: Water polo at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads.

Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Italy 3 3 0 0 21 8 +13 6
 Romania 3 2 0 1 12 5 +7 4
 Japan 3 0 1 2 5 15 −10 1
 Egypt 3 0 1 2 7 17 −10 1

Group B

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Soviet Union 3 3 0 0 20 10 +10 6
 United Team of Germany (EUA) 3 2 0 1 15 9 +6 4
 Argentina 3 0 1 2 7 14 −7 1
 Brazil 3 0 1 2 7 16 −9 1

Group C

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Yugoslavia 3 3 0 0 15 4 +11 6
 Netherlands 3 1 1 1 9 8 +1 3
 South Africa 3 1 1 1 7 12 −5 3
 Australia 3 0 0 3 7 14 −7 0

Group D

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Hungary 3 3 0 0 27 9 +18 6
 United States 3 2 0 1 17 13 +4 4
 France 3 1 0 2 10 23 −13 2
 Belgium 3 0 0 3 8 17 −9 0

Semi-finals

Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Italy 3 3 0 0 9 3 +6 6
 Soviet Union 3 2 0 1 8 8 0 4
 Romania 3 0 1 2 8 10 −2 1
 United Team of Germany (EUA) 3 0 1 2 7 11 −4 1

Group B

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Yugoslavia 3 3 0 0 10 4 +6 6
 Hungary 3 2 0 1 11 5 +6 4
 United States 3 1 0 2 11 19 −8 2
 Netherlands 3 0 0 3 8 12 −4 0

Final round

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Italy 3 2 1 0 7 4 +3 5
 Soviet Union 3 1 1 1 7 8 −1 3
 Hungary 3 0 2 1 7 8 −1 2
 Yugoslavia 3 1 0 2 6 7 −1 2

Final standings

Place[1] Nation
1  Italy (ITA)
2  Soviet Union (URS)
3  Hungary (HUN)
4  Yugoslavia (YUG)
5  Romania (ROU)
6  United Team of Germany (EUA)
7  United States (USA)
8  Netherlands (NED)
9  South Africa (RSA)
10  France (FRA)
11  Argentina (ARG)
12  Brazil (BRA)
13  United Arab Republic (UAR)
14  Japan (JPN)
15  Australia (AUS)
16  Belgium (BEL)

References

  1. ^ a b c "HistoFINA – Water polo medalists and statistics" (PDF). fina.org. FINA. September 2019. p. 4. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Water Polo at the 1960 Roma Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 November 2019.
  3. ^ "Men Water Polo XVII Olympic Games Roma, Italy 1960 Qualification". Todor 66.

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