Results of Olympic qualification tournaments are not included. Numbers refer to the final placing of each team at the respective Games.
At the 1904 Summer Olympics, a water polo tournament was contested, but only American contestants participated. Currently the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Swimming Federation (FINA) consider water polo event as part of unofficial program in 1904.
Related teams: Soviet Union men's Olympic water polo team† (statistics), Unified Team men's Olympic water polo team†[a].
The following table is pre-sorted by number of Olympic appearances (in descending order), year of the last Olympic appearance (in ascending order), year of the first Olympic appearance (in ascending order), date of birth (in ascending order), name of the player (in ascending order), respectively.
Number of five-time Olympians: 0
Number of four-time Olympians: 2
Last updated: 27 July 2021.
Abbreviation
EUN – Unified Team
RUS – Russia
Male athletes who competed in water polo at four or more Olympics
The following table is pre-sorted by total number of Olympic medals (in descending order), number of Olympic gold medals (in descending order), number of Olympic silver medals (in descending order), year of receiving the last Olympic medal (in ascending order), year of receiving the first Olympic medal (in ascending order), name of the player (in ascending order), respectively.
Number of four-time Olympic medalists: 0
Number of three-time Olympic medalists: 2
Last updated: 1 May 2021.
Abbreviation
EUN – Unified Team
RUS – Russia
Male athletes who won three or more Olympic medals in water polo
The following table is pre-sorted by number of total goals (in descending order), year of the last Olympic appearance (in ascending order), year of the first Olympic appearance (in ascending order), name of the player (in ascending order), respectively.
Number of goalscorers (50+ goals): 0
Number of goalscorers (40–49 goals): 1
Number of goalscorers (30–39 goals): 1
Last updated: 1 April 2021.
Abbreviation
EUN – Unified Team
RUS – Russia
URS – Soviet Union
Male players with 30 or more goals at the Olympics
The following table is pre-sorted by edition of the Olympics (in ascending order), cap number or name of the goalkeeper (in ascending order), respectively.
The following table is pre-sorted by number of total sprints won (in descending order), year of the last Olympic appearance (in ascending order), year of the first Olympic appearance (in ascending order), name of the sprinter (in ascending order), respectively.
Number of sprinters (30+ sprints won, since 2000): 0
Number of sprinters (20–29 sprints won, since 2000): 1
Number of sprinters (10–19 sprints won, since 2000): 1
Number of sprinters (5–9 sprints won, since 2000): 1
Last updated: 15 May 2021.
Abbreviation
Eff % – Efficiency (Sprints won / Sprints contested)
Male players with 5 or more sprints won at the Olympics (statistics since 2000)
The following table is pre-sorted by total number of Olympic medals (in descending order), number of Olympic gold medals (in descending order), number of Olympic silver medals (in descending order), year of winning the last Olympic medal (in ascending order), year of winning the first Olympic medal (in ascending order), name of the person (in ascending order), respectively. Last updated: 5 May 2021.
Aleksandr Kabanov of the Soviet Union won a gold at the Munich Olympics in 1972. Eight years later, he won the second gold medal at the Moscow Olympics in 1980. As a head coach, he led Russia men's national team to win two consecutive medals in 2000 and 2004.[12][13]
