The water polo tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics was held from 1 to 10 August 1984, at the Raleigh Runnels Memorial Pool in Malibu, California.Official Report of the Games of the XXIIIrd Olympiad Los Angeles 1984 Volume 2: Competition Summary and results (note: this file is 50.8MB). Originally published in print form by the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee in 1985; digitally published by the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles in 1998, retrieved 15 March 2012. The tournament featured 12 teams, playing two rounds of round-robin play: preliminaries and finals.

Water polo was one of the four aquatic sports held at the 1984 Games, along with swimming, diving, and synchronized swimming, which was held for the first time.

Qualification QualificationDateHostBerthsQualifiedHost nation18 May 1978Los Angeles11982 World Championships30 July–7 August 1982 Guayaquil6 3Intercontinental qualification13–22 April 19845Wildcards3Total12

Teams 12 teams played in the 1984 Olympic tournament:

The top 8 teams qualified for the 1985 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup in Duisburg, West Germany.

Squads

Tournament play

The tournament was set up into 2 levels of round-robin play: preliminary play in 3 groups; and final play in 2 groups. The top 2 teams from each preliminary group (shaded ones) advanced to Group D and played for the top-6 places; the bottom 2 teams from each preliminary group played in Group E to determine places 7-12.

Preliminary round

Group A

Qualified for second group stage Team 3 3 0 0 34 16 +18 6 3 2 0 1 25 26 –1 4 3 1 0 2 21 27 –6 2 3 0 0 3 18 29 −11 0

1 August 13 – 48 – 10

2 August 12 – 710 – 9

3 August 6 – 59 – 5

Group B

Qualified for second group stage Team 3 3 0 0 32 17 +15 6 3 2 0 1 39 31 +8 4 3 0 1 2 23 33 –10 1 3 0 1 2 25 38 −13 1

1 August 19 – 1212 – 5

2 August 12 – 910 – 4

3 August 9 – 98 – 10

Group C

Qualified for second group stage Team 3 3 0 0 35 18 +17 6 3 1 1 1 29 20 +9 3 3 1 1 1 27 23 +4 3 3 0 0 3 15 45 −30 0

1 August 15 – 510 – 6

2 August 8 – 815 – 8

3 August 2 – 1510 – 4

Final round

Group D

TeamPointsGWDLGFGADiff1.954104733+142.954104334+93.552124934+154.451224246–45.351133748–116.050052548–23

6 August 6 – 98 – 78 – 8

7 August 12 – 710 – 98 – 4

9 August 8 – 77 – 88 – 14

10 August 15 – 210 – 105 – 5

Group E

TeamPointsGWDLGFGADiff7.954106334+298.853205241+119.653024439+510.351134048–811.251043055–2512.250234052–12

6 August 10 – 411 – 813 – 4

7 August 14 – 711 – 810 – 10

9 August 11 – 98 – 58 – 8

10 August 9 – 816 – 910 – 9

Final ranking 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Medalists GoldSilverBronze

Top goalscorers RankPlayerGoals1 342 193 184 175 16 16 168 15 15 15 1512 14

See also Water polo at the 1982 World Aquatics Championships – Men's tournament Water polo at the 1986 World Aquatics Championships – Men's tournament Water polo at the Friendship Games

References

Sources PDF documents in the LA84 Foundation Digital Library: Official Report of the 1984 Olympic Games, v.2 (download, archive) (pp. 528–534) Water polo on the Olympedia website Water polo at the 1984 Summer Olympics (men's tournament) Water polo on the Sports Reference website Water polo at the 1984 Summer Games (men's tournament) (archived)