Water polo at the 1900 Summer Olympics

Men's water polo
at the Games of the II Olympiad
VenueRiver Seine
DatesAugust 11 (quarterfinals)
August 12 (semifinals and final)
Competitors58 from 4 nations
Medalists
 
 
 
 

At the 1900 Summer Olympics, a water polo tournament was contested.

Eight teams entered the water polo event, with one withdrawing before competition. The seven participating teams included four separate French teams, with two French teams from the Pupilles de Neptune de Lille swim club. The tournament was played in a single-elimination format with no playoff for third place and two bronze medals were awarded. This resulted in 4 of the 7 teams being awarded medals, one of whom only played and lost a single match.

Tournament results

First round
11 August
Second round
12 August
Gold medal match
12 August
       
  Osborne Swimming Club (GBR)  12
  Tritons Lillois (FRA)  5  
 Osborne Swimming Club  10
     Pupilles de Neptune de Lille #2  1  
  Pupilles de Neptune de Lille #2 (FRA)  3
  Berliner Swimming Club (GER)  2  
 Osborne Swimming Club  7
   
   Brussels Swimming and Water Polo Club  2
  Brussels Swimming and Water Polo Club (BEL)  2
  Pupilles de Neptune de Lille #1 (FRA)  0  
 Brussels Swimming and Water Polo Club  5
     Libellule de Paris  1  
  Libellule de Paris (FRA)  
 Bye    
 
Place Team Nation Players
1 Osborne Swimming Club[1] Great Britain Thomas Coe
John Henry Derbyshire
Peter Kemp
William Lister
Arthur G. Robertson
Eric Robinson
George Wilkinson
2 Brussels Swimming and Water Polo Club[2] Belgium Jean de Backer
Victor de Behr
Henri Cohen
Fernand Feyaerts
Oscar Grégoire
Albert Michant
Victor Sonnemans
3 Libellule de Paris France[3] Thomas Burgess
Jules Clévenot[4]
Alphonse Decuyper
Louis Laufray
Henri Peslier
Pesloy
Paul Vasseur
Pupilles de Neptune de Lille #2[5] France Eugène Coulon
Fardelle
Favier
Leriche
Louis Martin
Désiré Mérchez
Charles Treffel
5 Berliner Swimming Club Germany Hans Aniol
Paul Gebauer
Max Hainle
Georg Hax
Gustav Lexau
Herbert von Petersdorff
Fritz Schneider
Pupilles de Neptune de Lille #1 France[6] Favier[7]
Philippe Houben
Leriche[7]
Jean Leuillieux
E. Martin
Tartara
Charles Treffel[7]
Tritons Lillois France Bertrand
Victor Cadet
Maurice Hochepied
Leclerq
Tisserand
Charles de Vendevill
Verbecke

Notes

  1. Mallon lists 5 players in addition to these 7 found in the IOC database. Sports-Reference explains that the official roster is likely wrong and that five of the medalists didn't compete, and the team that actually competed consisted of Coe, Kemp, Robert Crawshaw, William Henry, John Jarvis, Frederick Stapleton, and Victor Lindberg.
  2. Mallon lists 3 players in addition to these 7.
  3. Burgess was British, leading some sources (e.g., Sports-Reference) to consider this team a mixed team, but the IOC considers the medal to have been won by a French team.
  4. Listed in the IOC database as "Devenot", but almost certainly the same person who competed in swimming.
  5. Mallon lists 4 players in addition to these 7.
  6. Houben was Belgian, leading some sources (e.g., Sports-Reference) to consider this team a mixed team, but the IOC considers the medal to have been won by a French team.
  7. 1 2 3 This player appears to have played for both PdNdL teams.

References

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