The men's tournament of water polo at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France was held from 28 July to 11 August 2024 at the Paris Aquatic Centre and Paris La Défense Arena. It was the 28th official appearance of the tournament, which was not held in 1896 and was a demonstration sport in 1904 but otherwise has been held at every Olympics. Serbia captured their third title with a win over Croatia, while the United States won bronze (first medal since 2008) by defeating Hungary.
Qualification
Competition format The twelve teams were seeded into two groups for a preliminary round. The teams in each group played a round-robin. The top four teams in each group advanced to the knockout round while the fifth- and sixth- placed teams were eliminated. The fifth placed teams was ranked ninth and tenth based on win–loss record, then goal average; the sixth-placed teams was ranked eleventh and twelfth in the same way. The knockout round began with quarterfinals and the winners advanced to the semifinals, while the quarterfinal losers played in the fifth- to eighth- place classification. The two semifinal winners played in the gold medal match, while the two semifinal losers played in the bronze medal match.
Schedule The competition began on 28 July, and matches were held every other day.
Sun 28 Mon 29 Tue 30 Wed 31 Thu 1 Fri 2 Sat 3 Sun 4 Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10 Sun 11G G G G G ¼ ½ B F
Draw The draw took place on 17 February 2024 in Doha, Qatar.
Seeding The twelve teams in the men's tournament were drawn into two groups of six teams. The teams were seeded into six pots.
Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4Pot 5Pot 6 (hosts)
Rosters
Referees The following 24 referees were selected for the tournament.
Nicholas Hodgers Hélène Painchaud Zhang Liang Andrej Franulović Yasser Mehalhel Aurélie Blanchard Sébastien Dervieux Frank Ohme Natalia Markopoulou Georgios Stavridis Nóra Debreceni Tamás Kovács Rafaele Colombo Alessia Ferrari Chisato Kurosaki Veselin Mišković Michiel Zwart Adrian Alexandrescu Boris Margeta Vojin Putniković Marta Cabañas David Gómez Jennifer McCall Darren Spiritosanto
Preliminary round All times are local (UTC+2).
Group A
Group B
Knockout stage Bracket
Fifth place bracket
Quarterfinals
5–8th place semifinals
Semifinals
Seventh place game
Fifth place game
Bronze medal game
Gold medal game
Final ranking
Rank Team456789101112
Top goalscorers +RankNameGoalsShots 1 Dušan Mandić 26 49 53 2 Loren Fatović 22 44 50 3 Yusuke Inaba 21 45 47 4 Álvaro Granados 20 51 395 Stylianos Argyropoulos18 41 44 Hannes Daube 31 58 7 Konstantin Kharkov 17 35 498 Milos Maksimovic16 39 41 Alberto Munárriz 43 37 Bernat Sanahuja 38 42 Awards The all-star team was announced on 11 August 2024.
Position Player Goalkeeper Adrian WeinbergField players Alvaro Granados Hannes Daube Dušan Mandić Yusuke Inaba Loren Fatović Krisztián ManherczMVP Dušan Mandić
Medalists GoldSilverBronze Radoslav Filipović (GK)Dušan MandićStrahinja RašovićSava RanđelovićMiloš ĆukNikola DedovićRadomir DrašovićNikola Jakšić (C)Nemanja UbovićNemanja VicoPetar JakšićViktor RašovićVladimir Mišović (GK)Head coach: Uroš Stevanović Marko Bijač (GK, C)Rino BurićLoren FatovićLuka LončarMaro JokovićLuka BukićAnte VukičevićMarko ŽuvelaJerko Marinić KragićJosip VrlićMatias BiljakaKonstantin KharkovToni Popadić (GK)Head coach: Ivica Tucak Adrian Weinberg (GK)Johnny HooperMarko VavicAlex ObertHannes DaubeLuca CupidoBen Hallock (C)Dylan WoodheadAlex BowenChase DoddRyder DoddMax IrvingDrew Holland (GK)Head coach: Dejan Udovičić
See also Water polo at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament
References
External links
Paris 2024 FINA Total-waterpolo website