The men's tournament of
Water polo at the 2016 Summer Olympics at
Rio de Janeiro
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, began on 6 August and ended on 20 August 2016.
Games were held at the
Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre
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and the
Olympic Aquatics Stadium
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.
Serbia won the gold medal by defeating Croatia in the final. Bronze was won by Italy after beating Montenegro.
After the Rio Olympics,
Serbia national team held
Olympic Games
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World Championship
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European Championship
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World Cup
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and
World League titles simultaneously.
Competition schedule
Qualification
Draw
The draw was held on 10 April 2016.
Teams from twelve nations compete in the tournament and were seeded into two groups for the preliminary round. The top four teams advance to the quarterfinals.
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
* Filippo Gomez
* Tadao Tahara
* Stanko Ivanovski
* Diana Dutilh-Dumas
* Radosław Koryzna
* Adrian Alexandrescu
* Sergey Naumov
* Vojin Putniković
* Boris Margeta
* Dion Willis
* Francesc Buch
* Joseph Peila
Group stage
Group A
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Group B
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Knockout stage
Bracket
;5th place bracket
Quarter-finals
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5–8th place semifinals
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Semi-finals
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Seventh place game
Fifth place game
Bronze medal game
Gold medal game
Final ranking
Medalists
Statistics
Multi-time Olympians
Five-time Olympian(s): 2 players
* : Stefano Tempesti (GK)Christos Afroudakis
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He was the captain of the team that competed for Greece at the 2016 Summer Olym ...
Multiple medalists
Three-time Olympic medalist(s): 5 players
* : Filip Filipović,Duško Pijetlović
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,Andrija Prlainović
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Leading goalscorers
Source: Official Results Book (page 100)
Leading goalkeepers
Source: Official Results Book (page 102)
Leading sprinters
Source: Official Results Book (page 99)
Awards
The men's all-star team was announced on 20 August 2016.
See also
* Water polo at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament
References
Sources
* PDF
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documents in the Olympicbr>World Library
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Official Results Book – 2016 Olympic Games – Water Poloarchive
* Water polo on the Olympedi
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* Water polo on the Sports Reference
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Men's events at the 2016 Summer Olympics