Water polo at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Water polo at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venues	Piscina delle Rose Stadio Olimpico del Nuoto
Date	25 August – 3 September 1960
Competitors	150 from 16 nations
Medalists
Italy  Soviet Union  Hungary

Final results for the water polo tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Qualification

Event	Dates	Hosts	Quotas	Qualified Teams
Host Nation	15 June 1955	Paris	1	Italy
1956 Summer Olympics	28 November - 7 December 1956	Melbourne	6	Hungary Yugoslavia Soviet Union United States  United Team of Germany (EUA) Romania
Oceania Qualifier	24 February 1960	Melbourne	1	Australia
European & Middle East Qualifier	18 June 1960	Zagreb	1	United Arab Republic
	25-26 June 1960	Groningen	1	Belgium
	26 June 1960	Camogli	1	France
American Qualifier			2	Brazil
				Argentina
Asian Qualifier			1	Japan
African Qualifier			1	South Africa
Wild Card			1	Netherlands
Total			16

Medal summary

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Italy Amedeo Ambron Danio Bardi Giuseppe D'Altrui Salvatore Gionta Giancarlo Guerrini Franco Lavoratori Gianni Lonzi Luigi Mannelli Rosario Parmegiani Eraldo Pizzo Dante Rossi Brunello Spinelli	Soviet Union Viktor Ageev Givi Chikvanaia Leri Gogoladze Boris Goykhman Yury Grigorovsky Anatoly Kartashov Vyacheslav Kurennoy P'et're Mshveniyeradze Vladimir Novikov Yevgeny Saltsyn Vladimir Semyonov	Hungary András Bodnár Ottó Boros Zoltán Dömötör László Felkai Dezső Gyarmati István Hevesi László Jeney Tivadar Kanizsa György Kárpáti András Katona János Konrád Kálmán Markovits Mihály Mayer Péter Rusorán

Results

For the team rosters see: Water polo at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads.

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Italy	3	3	0	0	21	8	+13	6
Romania	3	2	0	1	12	5	+7	4
Japan	3	0	1	2	5	15	−10	1
Egypt	3	0	1	2	7	17	−10	1

Source: sports-reference.com

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Soviet Union	3	3	0	0	20	10	+10	6
United Team of Germany (EUA)	3	2	0	1	15	9	+6	4
Argentina	3	0	1	2	7	14	−7	1
Brazil	3	0	1	2	7	16	−9	1

Source: sports-reference.com

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Yugoslavia	3	3	0	0	15	4	+11	6
Netherlands	3	1	1	1	9	8	+1	3
South Africa	3	1	1	1	7	12	−5	3
Australia	3	0	0	3	7	14	−7	0

Source: sports-reference.com

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Hungary	3	3	0	0	27	9	+18	6
United States	3	2	0	1	17	13	+4	4
France	3	1	0	2	10	23	−13	2
Belgium	3	0	0	3	8	17	−9	0

Source: sports-reference.com

Semi-finals

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Italy	3	3	0	0	9	3	+6	6
Soviet Union	3	2	0	1	8	8	0	4
Romania	3	0	1	2	8	10	−2	1
United Team of Germany (EUA)	3	0	1	2	7	11	−4	1

Source: sports-reference.com

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Yugoslavia	3	3	0	0	10	4	+6	6
Hungary	3	2	0	1	11	5	+6	4
United States	3	1	0	2	11	19	−8	2
Netherlands	3	0	0	3	8	12	−4	0

Source: sports-reference.com

Final round

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Italy	3	2	1	0	7	4	+3	5
Soviet Union	3	1	1	1	7	8	−1	3
Hungary	3	0	2	1	7	8	−1	2
Yugoslavia	3	1	0	2	6	7	−1	2

Source: sports-reference.com

Final standings

Place	Nation
1	Italy (ITA)
2	Soviet Union (URS)
3	Hungary (HUN)
4	Yugoslavia (YUG)
5	Romania (ROU)
6	United Team of Germany (EUA)
7	United States (USA)
8	Netherlands (NED)
9	South Africa (RSA)
10	France (FRA)
11	Argentina (ARG)
12	Brazil (BRA)
13	United Arab Republic (UAR)
14	Japan (JPN)
15	Australia (AUS)
16	Belgium (BEL)

Sources

• PDF documents in the LA84 Foundation Digital Library:
  • Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games (download, archive) (pp. 552–555, 617–634)
• Water polo on the Olympedia website
  • Water polo at the 1960 Summer Olympics (men's tournament)
• Water polo on the Sports Reference website
  • Water polo at the 1960 Summer Games (men's tournament) (archived)

External links

• International Olympic Committee medal database