Water polo at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Final results for the water polo competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Soviet Union Anatoli Akimov Aleksei Barkalov Vadim Gulyaev Aleksandr Dolgushin Aleksandr Dreval Vladimir Shmudski Aleksandr Kabanov Leonid Osipov Viacheslav Sobtschenko Nikolai Melnikov Aleksandr Schidlovski	Hungary András Bodnár Tibor Cservenyák István Görgényi Tamás Faragó Zoltán Kásás Ferenc Konrád István Magas Dénes Pócsik László Sárosi Endre Molnár István Szívós, Jr.	United States Peter Asch Steven Barnett Bruce Bradley Stanley Cole James Ferguson Eric Lindroth John Parker Gary Sheerer James Slatton Russell Webb Barry Weitzenberg

Preliminary round

Pool A

Nation	Pld	W	L	GF	GA
United States	5	5	0	31	18
Yugoslavia	5	4	1	35	24
Cuba	5	3	2	28	23
Romania	5	2	3	38	26
Mexico	5	1	4	25	30
Canada	5	0	5	14	50

	August 27		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Yugoslavia	12-4	Canada	3-1	4-1	3-1	2-1
Mexico	4-6	Cuba	1-2	0-1	1-1	2-2
Romania	3-4	United States	0-1	1-2	1-0	1-1

	August 28		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
United States	7-6	Cuba	1-1	1-0	2-1	3-4
Mexico	7-3	Canada	2-1	0-1	1-0	4-1
Romania	7-8	Yugoslavia	3-2	2-1	2-2	0-3

	August 29		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
United States	8-1	Canada	2-0	3-0	1-0	2-1
Mexico	3-5	Yugoslavia	0-1	1-1	1-3	1-0
Romania	3-4	Cuba	0-2	2-1	0-1	1-0

	August 30		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Yugoslavia	7-5	Cuba	0-2	3-1	2-1	2-1
Romania	16-4	Canada	1-1	6-1	5-1	4-1
Mexico	5-7	United States	1-1	1-4	1-1	2-1

	August 31		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Cuba	7-2	Canada	2-0	2-0	1-2	2-0
Yugoslavia	3-5	United States	0-1	1-1	1-2	1-1
Romania	9-6	Mexico	2-2	3-1	2-0	2-3

Pool B

Nation	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
Hungary	4	3	1	0	22	6
West Germany	4	2	2	0	21	13
Netherlands	4	2	1	1	14	11
Australia	4	0	1	3	14	27
Greece	4	0	1	3	13	27

	August 27		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Hungary	3-0	Netherlands	0-0	2-0	0-0	1-0
Greece	7-7	Australia	3-3	2-1	1-2	1-1

	August 28		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Australia	2-4	Netherlands	1-0	0-0	0-1	1-3
West Germany	3-3	Hungary	1-0	0-1	0-2	2-0

	August 29		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
West Germany	4-4	Netherlands	2-1	1-0	0-1	1-2
Greece	1-6	Hungary	0-3	0-0	0-2	1-1

	August 30		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Australia	2-10	Hungary	0-3	1-2	0-3	1-2
West Germany	8-3	Greece	3-1	3-1	1-1	1-0

	August 31		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
West Germany	6-3	Australia	1-1	2-0	1-0	2-2
Greece	2-6	Netherlands	1-0	0-2	1-3	0-1

Pool C

Nation	Pld	W	L	GF	GA
Soviet Union	4	4	0	30	9
Italy	4	3	1	25	16
Spain	4	2	2	19	20
Bulgaria	4	1	3	18	25
Japan	4	0	4	14	36

	August 28		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Spain	6-4	Japan	2-1	1-2	1-1	2-0
Italy	1-4	Soviet Union	1-0	0-2	0-2	0-0

	August 28		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Soviet Union	11-1	Japan	1-0	4-1	3-0	3-0
Italy	8-5	Bulgaria	3-1	3-2	2-1	0-1

	August 29		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Soviet Union	7-2	Bulgaria	2-0	2-1	2-0	1-1
Italy	6-2	Spain	1-0	0-1	2-1	3-0

	August 30		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Bulgaria	7-4	Japan	3-1	0-1	2-1	2-1
Spain	5-8	Soviet Union	0-1	1-2	2-2	2-3

	August 31		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Italy	12-5	Japan	4-1	3-0	1-1	4-3
Spain	6-4	Bulgaria	0-0	2-1	2-1	2-2

Final round

Group II (Classification 7th – 12th)

Pos.	Nation	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
7	Netherlands	5	4	1	0	29	25
8	Romania	5	4	1	0	25	18
9	Cuba	5	2	1	2	23	24
10	Spain	5	2	0	3	24	20
11	Bulgaria	5	0	2	3	15	17
12	Australia	5	0	1	4	18	27

	September 1		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Romania	7-4	Spain	1-2	2-0	0-0	4-2
Netherlands	5-2	Bulgaria	1-0	0-1	2-1	2-0
Cuba	6-5	Australia	1-1	3-2	1-1	1-1

	September 2		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Romania	4-3	Bulgaria	2-2	1-0	1-0	0-1
Australia	4-8	Spain	0-1	2-1	1-3	1-3
Cuba	6-8	Netherlands	2-1	2-5	0-2	2-0

	September 3		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Australia	4-4	Bulgaria	2-2	1-0	1-1	0-1
Romania	5-5	Netherlands	2-2	1-2	0-1	2-0
Cuba	4-3	Spain	2-1	1-2	0-0	1-0

	September 4		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Cuba	4-4	Bulgaria	0-0	2-3	1-0	1-1
Romania	5-3	Australia	1-1	2-1	1-0	1-1
Netherlands	7-5	Spain	0-1	3-0	2-2	2-2

Results taken from Preliminary Round

			1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Romania	4-3	Cuba	?-?	?-?	?-?	?-?
Netherlands	4-2	Australia	?-?	?-?	?-?	?-?
Spain	4-2	Bulgaria	?-?	?-?	?-?	?-?

Group I (Classification Gold – 6th)

Pos.	Nation	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
1	Soviet Union	5	3	2	0	22	16
2	Hungary	5	3	2	0	23	18
3	United States	5	2	1	2	24	23
4	West Germany	5	0	3	2	13	18
5	Yugoslavia	5	1	2	2	20	24
6	Italy	5	0	2	3	21	26

	September 1		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Hungary	8-7	Italy	1-0	2-1	3-4	2-2
United States	4-4	West Germany	3-1	1-1	0-0	0-2
Yugoslavia	4-5	Soviet Union	1-2	0-2	2-0	1-1

	September 2		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Yugoslavia	6-6	Italy	2-2	2-1	1-1	1-2
West Germany	2-4	Soviet Union	1:1	1:3	0:0	0:0
United States	3-5	Hungary	0-0	1-2	2-2	0-1

	September 3		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
West Germany	2-2	Italy	1-2	0-0	0-0	1-0
Yugoslavia	2-4	Hungary	0-1	1-1	0-1	1-1
United States	6-6	Soviet Union	0-1	3-1	2-2	1-2

	September 4		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Yugoslavia	5-4	West Germany	3-0	0-1	1-1	1-2
United States	6-5	Italy	2-1	1-1	2-1	1-2
Hungary	3-3	Soviet Union	2-1	1-1	0-1	0-0

Results taken from Preliminary Round

			1st	2nd	3rd	4th
United States	5-3	Yugoslavia	?-?	?-?	?-?	?-?
Soviet Union	4-1	Italy	?-?	?-?	?-?	?-?
West Germany	3-3	Hungary	0-1	1-0	0-2	2-0

Final ranking

1972 Men's Olympic Games Winners
Soviet Union First title

References

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Events at the 1972 Summer Olympics (Munich)

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Water polo at the Summer Olympics

Tournaments

Qualifications

Men	1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016

Women	2000 2004 2008 2012 2016

Squads

Men	1900 1904 1908 1920 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016

Women	2000 2004 2008 2012 2016

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