Water polo at the 1932 Summer Olympics

Men's water polo at the Games of the X Olympiad
Venue	Los Angeles
Dates	4–13 August
Competitors	41 from 5 nations
Medalists
Hungary  Hungary Germany  Germany United States  United States

Final results for the water polo tournament at the 1932 Summer Olympics:^[1][2]

Medal summary

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Hungary (HUN)[1] István Barta György Bródy Olivér Halassy Márton Homonnai Sándor Ivády Alajos Keserű Ferenc Keserű János Németh Miklós Sárkány József Vértesy	Germany (GER) Emil Benecke Otto Cordes Hans Eckstein Fritz Gunst Erich Rademacher Joachim Rademacher Hans Schulze Heiko Schwartz	United States (USA) Austin Clapp Philip Daubenspeck Charles Finn Charles McCallister Wally O'Connor Cal Strong Herbert Wildman Tex Robertson

Results

• 6 August

Hungary	6 – 2	Germany

• 7 August

United States	10 – 0	Japan

• 8 August

Hungary	18 – 0[3]	Japan

• 9 August

United States	4 – 4	Germany

• 11 August

Hungary	7 – 0	United States

• 12 August

Germany	10 – 0	Japan

Annulled matches

• 4 August

Germany	7 – 3	Brazil

• 6 August

United States	6 – 1	Brazil

Final standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		HUN	GER	USA	JPN	BRA
	Hungary (HUN)	3	3	0	0	31	2	+29	6			6–2	7–0	18–0	n/p
	Germany (GER)	3	1	1	1	16	10	+6	3		2–6		4–4	10–0	7–3
	United States (USA)	3	1	1	1	14	11	+3	3		0–7	4–4		10–0	6–1
4	Japan (JPN)	3	0	0	3	0	38	−38	0		0–18	0–10	0–10		n/p
DSQ	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0[a]		n/p	3–7	1–6	n/p

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Notes:

1. Brazil were ejected from the competition after their players assaulted referee Bela Komjadi and other officials following the end of their match against Germany, resulting in the entire team being arrested. Their two matches were annulled.^[4]

Participating nations

Each country was allowed to enter a team of 11 players and all were eligible for participation.

A total of 41(*) water polo players from five nations competed at the Los Angeles Games:

•  Brazil (8)
•  Germany (8)
•  Hungary (10)
•  Japan (8)
•  United States (7)

(*) NOTE: Only those players are counted, who participated in one game at least.

Not all reserve players are known.

Summary

Place	Nation
1	Hungary (HUN)
	István Barta (III. ker. TVE) György Bródy (FTC) Olivér Halassy (UTE) Márton Homonnai (UTE) Sándor Ivády (MAC) Alajos Keserű (FTC) Ferenc Keserű (III. ker. TVE) János Németh (UTE) Miklós Sárkány (UTE) József Vértesy (BSE)
2	Germany (GER)
	Emil Benecke (Hellas Magdeburg) Otto Cordes (Hellas Magdeburg) Hans Eckstein (Poseidon Leipzig) Fritz Gunst (Wasserfreunde 98 Hannover) Erich Rademacher (Hellas Magdeburg) Joachim Rademacher (Hellas Magdeburg) Hans Schulze Heiko Schwartz Gerd Pohl Hans Schwartz Albert Schumberg
3	United States (USA)
	Coach: Frank Rivas (Venice Swimming Association) Austin Clapp (Los Angeles Athletic Club) Philip Daubenspeck (Los Angeles Athletic Club) Charles Finn (Los Angeles Athletic Club) Charles McCallister (Los Angeles Athletic Club) Wally O'Connor (Los Angeles Athletic Club) Cal Strong (Los Angeles Athletic Club) Herbert Wildman (Los Angeles Athletic Club) Frank C. Graham (Los Angeles Athletic Club) Fred Lauer (Illinois Athletic Club) William O'Connor (Los Angeles Athletic Club) Raymond Ruddy (New York Athletic Club) Tex Robertson Duke Kahanamoku alternate
4	Japan (JPN) Shuji Doi Akira Fujita Seibei Kimura Takashige Matsumoto Yasutarō Sakagami Tosuke Sawami Takaji Takebayashi Iwao Tokito
DSQ	Brazil (BRA) Salvador Amendola Carlos Branco Luiz da Silva Mario de Lorenzo Antônio Jacobina Filho Jefferson Souza Adhemar Serpa Pedro Theberge

References

1. "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.
2. "Water Polo at the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
3. 17-0 in the 1932 Official book, but 18-0 in 1932 newspapers which gave the goalscorers
4. Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement, John E. Findling, Kimberly D. Pelle, Greenwood Publishing group, 2004

Sources

• PDF documents in the LA84 Foundation Digital Library:
  • Official Report of the 1932 Olympic Games (download, archive) (pp. 619–623, 646–652)
• Water polo on the Olympedia website
  • Water polo at the 1932 Summer Olympics (men's tournament)
• Water polo on the Sports Reference website
  • Water polo at the 1932 Summer Games (men's tournament) (archived)