Water polo at the 1964 Summer Olympics was held at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Shibuya, Tokyo. The gymnasium was built in 1961-1964 as the first indoor pool for Olympic water polo; it also hosted all swimming and diving events and could accommodate over 13,000 people.
In the water polo tournament, two teams from each of the four preliminary groups advanced to two semifinals, and their four winners competed for the medals. The scores from the preliminary rounds were taken into account in the semifinals, and the scores from the semifinals were taken into account in the finals.
Qualification Qualification Date Host Berths Qualified Host nation 26 May 1959 Munich 1 1960 Summer Olympics 25 August–3 September 1960 Rome 5 European Water Polo Championship 19–25 August 1962 Leipzig 3 2 1963 Pan American Games 24 April–4 May 1963 São Paulo 3 2 Africa 1963 1 Oceania 1963 1 Total 14 12
Squads
Medal summary Men’s tournament Miklós AmbrusLászló FelkaiJános KonrádZoltán DömötörTivadar KanizsaPéter RusoránGyörgy KárpátiMihály MayerDezső GyarmatiDénes PócsikAndrás Bodnár Milan MuškatirovićIvo TrumbićVinko RosićZlatko ŠimencBožidar StanišićAnte NardelliZoran JankovićMirko SandićFrane NonkovićOzren BonačićKarlo Stipanić Igor GrabovskyVladimir KuznetsovBoris GrishinBoris PopovNikolay KalashnikovZenon BortkevichNikolay KuznetsovVladimir SemyonovViktor AgeyevLeonid OsipovEduard Egorov
Results
First round
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Semifinals
Semifinal AB
Semifinal CD
Final round
Classification 5–8
Final
References
Sources PDF documents in the LA84 Foundation Digital Library: Official Report of the 1964 Olympic Games, v.2 (download, archive) (pp. 682–698) Water polo on the Olympedia website Water polo at the 1964 Summer Olympics (men's tournament) Water polo on the Sports Reference website Water polo at the 1964 Summer Games (men's tournament) (archived)