Water polo at the 1920 Summer Olympics

Men's water polo at the Games of the VII Olympiad
Venue	Stade Nautique d'Antwerp
Dates	August 22–29
Competitors	99 from 12 nations
Medalists
Great Britain Great Britain   Belgium Belgium   Sweden Sweden

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

Medal summary

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

Results

Gold medal round

	Round of 16					Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Final
						Great Britain (GBR)		9
	Spain (ESP)		1			Spain (ESP)		0
	Italy (ITA)		1[lower-alpha 2]								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.

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