Water polo at the 2010 Asian Games

Water polo at the 2010 Asian Games was held in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China from November 13 to 25, 2010. In this tournament, 9 teams played in the men's competition, while the woman's tournament made their first participation with 4 teams.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Kazakhstan (KAZ) Alexandr Shvedov Sergey Gubarev Alexandr Gaidukov Murat Shakenov Alexey Panfili Roman Pilipenko Alexandr Axenov Rustam Ukumanov Yevgeniy Zhilyayev Mikhail Ruday Ravil Manafov Azamat Zhulumbetov Nikolay Maximov	China (CHN) Ge Weiqing Tan Feihu Liang Zhongxing Yu Lijun Guo Junliang Pan Ning Li Bin Wang Yang Xie Junmin Wang Beiming Han Zhidong Jiang Bin Huang Meicai	Japan (JPN) Katsuyuki Tanamura Mitsuaki Shiga Kan Irei Koji Takei Kan Aoyagi Hiroki Wakamatsu Yusuke Shimizu Akira Yanase Koji Kobayashi Yoshinori Shiota Atsushi Naganuma Satoshi Nagata Shota Hazui
Women	China (CHN) Yang Jun Teng Fei Liu Ping Sun Yujun He Jin Sun Yating Song Donglun Zhang Weiwei Wang Yi Ma Huanhuan Sun Huizi Zhang Lei Wang Ying	Kazakhstan (KAZ) Galina Rytova Natalya Shepelina Kamila Zakirova Anna Turova Liliya Falaleyeva Anna Zubkova Zamira Myrzabekova Yekaterina Gariyeva Aizhan Akilbayeva Marina Gritsenko Yelena Chebotova Assem Mussarova Alexandra Turova	Uzbekistan (UZB) Anastasiya Skovpina Diana Dadabaeva Aleksandra Sarancha Eseniya Piftor Evgeniya Ivanova Natalya Plyusova Anna Shcheglova Ramilya Khalikova Adelina Zinurova Olga Mayorova Anna Plyusova Elena Dukhanova

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	1	1	0	2
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	1	0	2
3	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
	Uzbekistan (UZB)	0	0	1	1
Total		2	2	2	6

Draw

The draw ceremony for the team sports was held on 7 October 2010 at Guangzhou. The men were drawn into two groups of five teams, the women were played in round robin format.^[1] The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 2009 Asian Championships.^[2]

Group A  China (Host)  Japan (3)  Qatar  South Korea  Hong Kong

Group B  Kazakhstan (2) Athletes from Kuwait (4)  Singapore  Iran*  Saudi Arabia

* Iran withdrew shortly after the draw.

Final standing

Men

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L
	Kazakhstan	6	6	0	0
	China	7	6	0	1
	Japan	7	5	0	2
4	South Korea	7	3	0	4
5	Athletes from Kuwait	6	3	1	2
6	Singapore	6	2	1	3
7	Saudi Arabia	6	1	0	5
8	Hong Kong	7	1	0	6
9	Qatar	4	0	0	4

Women

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L
	China	3	3	0	0
	Kazakhstan	3	2	0	1
	Uzbekistan	3	1	0	2
4	India	3	0	0	3

References

1. "China, Korea, Japan together in water polo". Chinese Olympic Committee. Retrieved 20 November 2013.
2. "The 8th Asian Water Polo Championships Results" (PDF). Asia Swimming Federation. Retrieved 20 November 2013.

External links

• Waterpolo Site of 2010 Asian Games