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Water polo
at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Water polo; at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Venues	Dantebad; Olympia Schwimmhalle (final)
Date	27 August – 4 September 1972
Competitors	176 from 16 nations
Medalists
	← 1968 1976 →

Final results for the water polo competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich.^[1]^[2]

Qualification^[3]

Event	Dates	Hosts	Quotas	Qualified Teams
Host Nation	26 April 1966	Rome	1	West Germany
1968 Summer Olympics	14-26 October 1968	Mexico City	5	Yugoslavia
				Soviet Union
				Hungary
				Italy
				United States
1971 Pan American Games	26 July - 1 August 1971	Cali	3	Cuba
				Mexico
				~~Brazil~~ Canada
European Qualifier	14-20 May 1972	Munich	4	Romania
				Spain
				Bulgaria
				Greece
Oceania Qualifier			1	Australia
Asian Qualifier			1	Japan
Reallocation			1	Netherlands
Total			16

Medalists

Squads

Preliminary round

Pool A

Nation	Pld	W	L	GF	GA
United States	5	5	0	31	18
Yugoslavia	5	4	1	35	24
Cuba	5	3	2	28	23
Romania	5	2	3	38	26
Mexico	5	1	4	25	30
Canada	5	0	5	14	50

	27 August		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Yugoslavia	12-4	Canada	3-1	4-1	3-1	2-1
Mexico	4-6	Cuba	1-2	0-1	1-1	2-2
Romania	3-4	United States	0-1	1-2	1-0	1-1

	28 August		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
United States	7-6	Cuba	1-1	1-0	2-1	3-4
Mexico	7-3	Canada	2-1	0-1	1-0	4-1
Romania	7-8	Yugoslavia	3-2	2-1	2-2	0-3

	29 August		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
United States	8-1	Canada	2-0	3-0	1-0	2-1
Mexico	3-5	Yugoslavia	0-1	1-1	1-3	1-0
Romania	3-4	Cuba	0-2	2-1	0-1	1-0

	30 August		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Yugoslavia	7-5	Cuba	0-2	3-1	2-1	2-1
Romania	16-4	Canada	1-1	6-1	5-1	4-1
Mexico	5-7	United States	1-1	1-4	1-1	2-1

	31 August		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Cuba	7-2	Canada	2-0	2-0	1-2	2-0
Yugoslavia	3-5	United States	0-1	1-1	1-2	1-1
Romania	9-6	Mexico	2-2	3-1	2-0	2-3

Pool B

Nation	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
Hungary	4	3	1	0	22	6
West Germany	4	2	2	0	21	13
Netherlands	4	2	1	1	14	11
Australia	4	0	1	3	14	27
Greece	4	0	1	3	13	27

	27 August		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Hungary	3-0	Netherlands	0-0	2-0	0-0	1-0
Greece	7-7	Australia	3-3	2-1	1-2	1-1

	28 August		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Australia	2-4	Netherlands	1-0	0-0	0-1	1-3
West Germany	3-3	Hungary	1-0	0-1	0-2	2-0

	29 August		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
West Germany	4-4	Netherlands	2-1	1-0	0-1	1-2
Greece	1-6	Hungary	0-3	0-0	0-2	1-1

	30 August		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Australia	2-10	Hungary	0-3	1-2	0-3	1-2
West Germany	8-3	Greece	3-1	3-1	1-1	1-0

	31 August		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
West Germany	6-3	Australia	1-1	2-0	1-0	2-2
Greece	2-6	Netherlands	1-0	0-2	1-3	0-1

Pool C

Nation	Pld	W	L	GF	GA
Soviet Union	4	4	0	30	9
Italy	4	3	1	27	16
Spain	4	2	2	19	22
Bulgaria	4	1	3	18	25
Japan	4	0	4	14	36

	28 August		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Spain	6-4	Japan	2-1	1-2	1-1	2-0
Italy	1-4	Soviet Union	1-0	0-2	0-2	0-0

	28 August		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Soviet Union	11-1	Japan	1-0	4-1	3-0	3-0
Italy	8-5	Bulgaria	3-1	3-2	2-1	0-1

	29 August		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Soviet Union	7-2	Bulgaria	2-0	2-1	2-0	1-1
Italy	6-2	Spain	1-0	0-1	2-1	3-0

	30 August		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Bulgaria	7-4	Japan	3-1	0-1	2-1	2-1
Spain	5-8	Soviet Union	0-1	1-2	2-2	2-3

	31 August		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Italy	12-5	Japan	4-1	3-0	1-1	4-3
Spain	6-4	Bulgaria	0-0	2-1	2-1	2-2

Final round

Group II (Classification 7th – 12th)

Pos.	Nation	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
7	Netherlands	5	4	1	0	29	20
8	Romania	5	3	1	1	24	19
9	Cuba	5	3	1	1	24	23
10	Spain	5	2	0	3	26	26
11	Bulgaria	5	0	2	3	17	23
12	Australia	5	0	1	4	18	27

	1 September		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Romania	7-4	Spain	1-2	2-0	0-0	4-2
Netherlands	5-2	Bulgaria	1-0	0-1	2-1	2-0
Cuba	6-5	Australia	1-1	3-2	1-1	1-1

	2 September		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Romania	4-3	Bulgaria	2-2	1-0	1-0	0-1
Australia	4-8	Spain	0-1	2-1	1-3	1-3
Cuba	6-8	Netherlands	2-1	2-5	0-2	2-0

	3 September		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Australia	4-4	Bulgaria	2-2	1-0	1-1	0-1
Romania	5-5	Netherlands	2-2	1-2	0-1	2-0
Cuba	4-3	Spain	2-1	1-2	0-0	1-0

	4 September		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Cuba	4-4	Bulgaria	0-0	2-3	1-0	1-1
Romania	5-3	Australia	1-1	2-1	1-0	1-1
Netherlands	7-5	Spain	0-1	3-0	2-2	2-2

Results taken from Preliminary Round

			1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Cuba	4-3	Romania	?-?	?-?	?-?	?-?
Netherlands	4-2	Australia	?-?	?-?	?-?	?-?
Spain	6-4	Bulgaria	?-?	?-?	?-?	?-?

Group I (Classification Gold – 6th)

Pos.	Nation	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
1	Soviet Union	5	3	2	0	22	16
2	Hungary	5	3	2	0	23	18
3	United States	5	2	2	1	24	23
4	West Germany	5	0	3	2	15	18
5	Yugoslavia	5	1	1	3	20	24
6	Italy	5	0	2	3	21	26

	1 September		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Hungary	8-7	Italy	1-0	2-1	3-4	2-2
United States	4-4	West Germany	3-1	1-1	0-0	0-2
Yugoslavia	4-5	Soviet Union	1-2	0-2	2-0	1-1

	2 September		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Yugoslavia	6-6	Italy	2-2	2-1	1-1	1-2
West Germany	2-4	Soviet Union	1:1	1:3	0:0	0:0
United States	3-5	Hungary	0-0	1-2	2-2	0-1

	3 September		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
West Germany	2-2	Italy	1-2	0-0	0-0	1-0
Yugoslavia	2-4	Hungary	0-1	1-1	0-1	1-1
United States	6-6	Soviet Union	0-1	3-1	2-2	1-2

	4 September		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Yugoslavia	5-4	West Germany	3-0	0-1	1-1	1-2
United States	6-5	Italy	2-1	1-1	2-1	1-2
Hungary	3-3	Soviet Union	2-1	1-1	0-1	0-0

Results taken from Preliminary Round

			1st	2nd	3rd	4th
United States	5-3	Yugoslavia	?-?	?-?	?-?	?-?
Soviet Union	4-1	Italy	?-?	?-?	?-?	?-?
West Germany	3-3	Hungary	0-1	1-0	0-2	2-0

Final ranking

1972 Men's Olympic Games winners
Soviet Union First title

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Goals
1	Carlos Sanchez	18
2	Bruce Bradley	17
3	Mart Bras	16
3	Juan Janac	16
5	Eraldo Pizzo	12
	Gheorghe Zamfirescu
	Les Nunn
8	Aleksandr Dreval	11
	Ingulf Nossek
	Gianni De Magistris
	Toma Tomov
	Armando Fernandez
13	Anatoly Akimov	10
	Oleksiy Barkalov
	Viorel Rus

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "HistoFINA – Water polo medalists and statistics" (PDF). fina.org. FINA. September 2019. p. 4. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
^ "Water Polo at the 1972 Munich Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
^ "Men_1972". Todor66.