The women's tournament of
Water polo at the 2016 Summer Olympics
The water polo tournaments at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place from 6 to 20 August at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre in Barra da Tijuca. Twenty teams (twelve for men and eight for women) competed in the tournament. Games t ...
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Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a ...
,
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
, began on 9 August and ended on 19 August 2016.
Games were held at the
Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre and the
Olympic Aquatics Stadium.
The
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territori ...
won the gold medal by defeating
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...
12–5 in the final.
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eig ...
captured bronze, beating
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the ...
19–18.
Competition schedule
Qualification
Draw
The draw was held on 10 April 2016.
Teams from eight nations compete in the tournament and were seeded into two groups for the preliminary round.
Seeding
The seeding was announced on 10 April 2016.
Referees
The following referees were selected for the tournament.
Referees
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* German Moller
* Daniel Flahive
* Mark Koganov
* Fabio Toffoli
* Marie-Claude Deslières
* Ni Shi Wei
* Nenad Peris
* Hatem Gaber
* Benjamin Mercier
* Georgios Stavridis
* Péter Molnár
* Masoud Rezvani
* Fillippo Gomez
* Tadao Tahara
* Stanko Ivanovski
* Diana Dutilh-Dumas
* Radosław Koryzna
* Adrian Alexandrescu
* Sergey Naumov
* Vojin Putniković
* Boris Margeta
* Dion Willis
* Francesc Buch
* Joseph Peila
Preliminary round
Group A
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Group B
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Final round
;Final Bracket
;5th place bracket
Quarterfinals
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5th–8th place classification
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Semifinals
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7th place match
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5th place match
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Bronze medal match
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Gold medal match
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Ranking and statistics
Final ranking
Multi-time Olympians
Four-time Olympian(s): 1 player
* : Tania Di Mario
Tania Di Mario (born 4 May 1979) is an Italian female water polo forward, who won the gold medal with the Women's National Team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, and the silver at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. She was al ...
Kami Craig
Kameryn Louise "Kami" Craig (born July 21, 1987) is an American water polo player. She was a member of the US water polo team that won a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and a gold medal in London in 2012 and Rio in 2016.
Craig attende ...
Multiple medalists
Three-time Olympic medalist(s): 1 player
* : Kami Craig
Kameryn Louise "Kami" Craig (born July 21, 1987) is an American water polo player. She was a member of the US water polo team that won a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and a gold medal in London in 2012 and Rio in 2016.
Craig attende ...
Top goalscorers
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Top goalkeepers
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Medalists
Awards
The women's all-star team was announced on 19 August 2016.Maggie Steffens
Margaret Ann Steffens (born June 4, 1993) is an American water polo player. She won the gold medal with the United States at the 2012, 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, Steffens set a new Olympic record for the most numb ...
Ashleigh Johnson
Ashleigh Elizabeth Johnson (born September 12, 1994) is an American water polo player considered by many to be the best goalkeeper in the world. She was part of the American team that won the gold medal at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships. I ...
(51 saves)
* Field players
** Barbara Bujka (centre forward, left-handed, 15 goals)
** Arianna Garibotti (12 goals)
** Rita Keszthelyi
Rita Keszthelyi (born 10 December 1991) is a Hungarian water polo player. At the 2012, 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics, she competed for the Hungary women's national water polo team in the women's tournament.
She scored two of the goals that he ...
(14 goals, 10 sprints won)
** Maddie Musselman
Madeline Musselman (born June 16, 1998) is an American water polo player. Maddie was named Woman's water polo MVP after her USA Team won gold in Tokyo at the 2020ne Summer Olympics. She was one of the highest leading scorers with 18 goals. It i ...
(12 goals)
** Ashleigh Southern (14 goals)
** Maggie Steffens
Margaret Ann Steffens (born June 4, 1993) is an American water polo player. She won the gold medal with the United States at the 2012, 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, Steffens set a new Olympic record for the most numb ...
(17 goals, 1 sprints won)
See also
* Water polo at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament
References
Sources
* PDF documents in the Olympicbr>World Library
*
Official Results Book – 2016 Olympic Games – Water Poloarchive
* Water polo on the Olympedi
website
*
Water polo at the 2016 Summer Olympicswomen's tournament
* Water polo on the Sports Referencebr>website
*
Water polo at the 2016 Summer Games
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