The

water polo Water polo is a competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the ball into the opposing team's goal. The team with th ...

tournament at the

1968 Summer Olympics The 1968 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada) and commonly known as Mexico 1968 ( es, México 1968), were an international multi-sport ev ...

was held from 14 to 25 October 1968, in

Mexico City, Mexico Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley of Me ...

Qualification

Groups

;GROUP A * (''excluded'') * * * * * * * ;GROUP B * * * * * * * * While Australia had been accepted as one of the 16 teams, the Australian Olympic Committee, considering it a waste of money to send a team, did not endorse them. The players responded by paying their own way to travel to Mexico City, but after the AOC informed the organisers, the team were barred from competing.

Squads

Preliminary round

Group A

*14 October 1968 *15 October 1968 *16 October 1968 *17 October 1968 *19 October 1968 *20 October 1968 *21 October 1968 *22 October 1968

Group B

*14 October 1968 *15 October 1968 *16 October 1968 *17 October 1968 *19 October 1968 *20 October 1968 *21 October 1968 *22 October 1968

Classification round

*24 October 1968 — 13th/15th place *24 October 1968 — 9th/12th place *24 October 1968 — 5th/8th place *24 October 1968 — Semi Finals

Final round

*25 October 1968 — 13th place *25 October 1968 — 11th place *25 October 1968 — 9th place *25 October 1968 — 7th place *25 October 1968 — 5th place *25 October 1968 — Bronze Medal Match *25 October 1968 — Gold Medal Match

Final ranking

Medallists

References

Sources

PDF Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems. ...

documents in the

LA84 Foundation The LA84 Foundation (known until June 2007 as the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles) is a private, nonprofit institution created by the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee to manage Southern California's endowment from the 1984 Olym ...

br>Digital Library
*
Official Report of the 1968 Olympic Games, v.3downloadarchive
(pp. 449–466, 811–826) * Water polo on the Olympedi
website
*
Water polo at the 1968 Summer Olympicsmen's tournament
* Water polo on the

Sports Reference Sports Reference, LLC, is an American company which operates several sports-related websites, including Sports-Reference.com, Baseball-Reference.com for baseball, Basketball-Reference.com for basketball, Hockey-Reference.com for ice hockey, Pr ...

br>website
*
Water polo at the 1968 Summer Games
(archived)

External links

NBCsports

{{DEFAULTSORT:Water Polo At The 1968 Summer Olympics 1968 Summer Olympics events

1968 The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – " Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * J ...

1968 in water polo