Water polo at the 2010 Asian Games – Men

Men
at the 2010 Asian Games
Men ; at the 2010 Asian Games
Venue	Tianhe Natatorium
Date	18–25 November 2010
Competitors	117 from 9 nations
Medalists
	Kazakhstan
	China
	Japan
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Men's water polo at the 2010 Asian Games was held in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China from 18 to 25 November 2010. In this tournament, 9 teams played.

It also served as the Asian qualification for the 2011 World Aquatics Championships.

Squads

Athletes from Kuwait	China	Hong Kong	Japan
Mohammad Al-Mulla Nawaf Al-Otaibi Marzouq Al-Ajmi Mohammad Mandani Ahmad Mandani Mohammad Ashour Jasem Al-Rumaidheen Jasem Al-Salem Yousef Bosakhar Adnan Khan Rashid Al-Shatti Mohammad Al-Otaibi Talal Al-Otaibi	Ge Weiqing Tan Feihu Liang Zhongxing Yu Lijun Guo Junliang Pan Ning Li Bin Wang Yang Xie Junmin Wang Beiming Han Zhidong Jiang Bin Huang Meicai	Michael Cheung Zhao Jinwen Koo Yu Fat Lee Kwan Shing Chan Sze Ho Toby To Fong Ho Cheung Ku Yat Wa Chung Kwok Leung Cheung Hok Him Po Yue Kai Kelvin Cheng Cheng Ka Long	Katsuyuki Tanamura Mitsuaki Shiga Kan Irei Koji Takei Kan Aoyagi Hiroki Wakamatsu Yusuke Shimizu Akira Yanase Koji Kobayashi Yoshinori Shiota Atsushi Naganuma Satoshi Nagata Shota Hazui
Kazakhstan	Qatar	Saudi Arabia	Singapore
Alexandr Shvedov Sergey Gubarev Alexandr Gaidukov Murat Shakenov Alexey Panfili Roman Pilipenko Alexandr Axenov Rustam Ukumanov Yevgeniy Zhilyayev Mikhail Ruday Ravil Manafov Azamat Zhulumbetov Nikolay Maximov	Abdulaziz Al-Mutawaa Mohammed Al-Malki Abdulaziz Al-Hammadi Omar Al-Malki Saleh Al-Nabet Abdulla Al-Shahrani Ali Al-Lanjawi Morshid Al-Rabaan Abdulrahman Al-Sulaiti Ali Abdin Zaid Al-Abidi Mohammed Al-Ibrahim Salem Al-Marri	Bandar Al-Zahrani Yasser Al-Zahrani Mohammed Gahal Yousef Al-Mansour Saleh Al-Zahrani Malik Mokhtar Adel Al-Malki Khaled Al-Harbi Hamed Al-Nefaiei Bader Al-Dughather Hattan Al-Olayan Yousri Al-Laili Yasser Barnawi	Nigel Tay Foo Chuan Yu Ng Li Ming Loh Zhi Zhi Kelvin Ong Lin Diyan Lin Diyang Luo Nan Ang Song Loo Paul Louis Tan Teo Zhen Wei Lim Yaoxiang Alvin Poh
South Korea
Maeng Sung-hoon Park Jun-jong Kang Jun-won Kim Hyun-jong Park Bong-soo Kim Ki-woo Yoo Byeong-jin Gwon Yeong-gyun Lee Min-soo Lee Hyun-kyu Lee Duk-jae Song Won-ho Song Geun-ho

Results

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00)

Preliminary

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Japan	4	4	0	72	16	+56	8	Quarterfinals
2	China	4	3	1	72	16	+56	6
3	South Korea	4	2	2	54	33	+21	4
4	Hong Kong	4	1	3	33	73	−40	2
5	Qatar	4	0	4	5	98	−93	0

Source: Results

18 November 14:30	South Korea	18–5	Hong Kong	Tianhe Natatorium, Guangzhou Referees: Tan (SIN), Al-Saad (KUW)
	Score by quarters: 4–2, 3–0, 6–2, 5–1
	Kang J.W. 4	Goals	Zhao J.W. 2

18 November 15:55	China	9–3	Japan	Tianhe Natatorium, Guangzhou Referees: Margeta (SLO), Bock (GER)
	Score by quarters: 4–2, 0–1, 3–0, 2–0
	Liang Z.X. 3	Goals	Aoyagi 3

19 November 14:30	Qatar	1–26	South Korea	Tianhe Natatorium, Guangzhou Referees: Salnichenko (KAZ), Al-Sheaifi (KSA)
	Score by quarters: 1–5, 0–7, 0–4, 0–10
	Abdin 1	Goals	Lee M.S. 6

19 November 15:55	Hong Kong	6–24	China	Tianhe Natatorium, Guangzhou Referees: Tan (SIN), Al-Saad (KUW)
	Score by quarters: 1–8, 1–6, 3–5, 1–5
	K. Cheng 2	Goals	Jiang B. 5

20 November 9:00	Japan	30–1	Hong Kong	Tianhe Natatorium, Guangzhou Referees: Salnichenko (KAZ), Bock (GER)
	Score by quarters: 5–1, 10–0, 7–0, 8–0
	Aoyagi 5	Goals	Chung K.L. 1

20 November 15:55	China	26–1	Qatar	Tianhe Natatorium, Guangzhou Referees: Al-Sheaifi (KSA), Koganov (AZE)
	Score by quarters: 7–0, 8–1, 7–0, 4–0
	Xie J.M. 5	Goals	Al-Sulaiti 1

21 November 14:30	Qatar	2–25	Japan	Tianhe Natatorium, Guangzhou Referees: Stavridis (GRE), Tan (SIN)
	Score by quarters: 1–10, 0–8, 1–3, 0–4
	Al-Lanjawi 2	Goals	Irei, Takei 5

21 November 15:55	South Korea	6–13	China	Tianhe Natatorium, Guangzhou Referees: Margeta (SLO), Makihashi (JPN)
	Score by quarters: 1–3, 0–2, 2–2, 3–6
	Gwon Y.G., Lee D.J. 2	Goals	Tan F.H. 3

22 November 9:00	Japan	14–4	South Korea	Tianhe Natatorium, Guangzhou Referees: Ni (CHN), Stavridis (GRE)
	Score by quarters: 7–1, 1–1, 1–0, 5–2
	Shimizu, Yanase 3	Goals	Park J.J. 2

22 November 14:30	Qatar	1–21	Hong Kong	Tianhe Natatorium, Guangzhou Referees: Margeta (SLO), Bock (GER)
	Score by quarters: 1–5, 0–3, 0–7, 0–6
	Al-Sulaiti 1	Goals	Zhao J.W. 6

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Kazakhstan	3	3	0	0	58	9	+49	6	Quarterfinals
2	Athletes from Kuwait	3	1	1	1	18	29	−11	3^[a]
3	Singapore	3	1	1	1	23	37	−14	3^[a]
4	Saudi Arabia	3	0	0	3	20	44	−24	0

Source: Results
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Head-to-head result: IOC 7–7 SIN. Goal difference against the highest placed team (KAZ): IOC −13, SIN −16.

18 November 9:00	Saudi Arabia	3–23	Kazakhstan	Tianhe Natatorium, Guangzhou Referees: Lee (KOR), Makihashi (JPN)
	Score by quarters: 0–5, 0–6, 2–5, 1–7
	Al-Malki, Al-Dughather, Al-Olayan 1	Goals	Gubarev 5

18 November 10:25	Singapore	7–7	Athletes from Kuwait	Tianhe Natatorium, Guangzhou Referees: Stavridis (GRE), Koganov (AZE)
	Score by quarters: 2–2, 2–1, 1–3, 2–1
	Teo Z.W. 3	Goals	N. Al-Otaibi, A. Mandani, Al-Salem 2

20 November 10:25	Athletes from Kuwait	1–14	Kazakhstan	Tianhe Natatorium, Guangzhou Referees: Shi (CHN), Chung (HKG)
	Score by quarters: 0–7, 0–2, 0–3, 1–2
	Khan 1	Goals	Axenov 4

20 November 14:30	Singapore	11–9	Saudi Arabia	Tianhe Natatorium, Guangzhou Referees: Ni (CHN), Stavridis (GRE)
	Score by quarters: 2–1, 4–1, 3–4, 2–3
	Luo N., Teo Z.W. 3	Goals	Al-Nefaiei, Al-Dughather 2

22 November 10:25	Athletes from Kuwait	10–8	Saudi Arabia	Tianhe Natatorium, Guangzhou Referees: Koganov (AZE), Salnichenko (KAZ)
	Score by quarters: 3–2, 1–3, 2–2, 4–1
	A. Mandani 4	Goals	Al-Nefaiei 2

22 November 15:55	Singapore	5–21	Kazakhstan	Tianhe Natatorium, Guangzhou Referees: Chung (HKG), Lee (KOR)
	Score by quarters: 0–6, 3–4, 0–5, 2–6
	five players 1	Goals	Axenov 6

Final round

Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Gold medal match

23 November

China	22
		24 November
Saudi Arabia	2
		China	22
23 November
		South Korea	9
South Korea	4
				25 November
Athletes from Kuwait	3
				China	6
23 November
				Kazakhstan	7
Japan	25
		24 November
Singapore	3
		Japan	8
23 November
		Kazakhstan	10	Bronze medal match
Hong Kong	1
				25 November
Kazakhstan	25
				South Korea	5

				Japan	19

Classification 5th–8th		Classification 5th–6th

24 November

Saudi Arabia	7
		25 November
Athletes from Kuwait	9
		Athletes from Kuwait	5
24 November
		Singapore	4
Singapore	14

Hong Kong	6
		Classification 7th–8th

		25 November

		Saudi Arabia	20

		Hong Kong	11

Quarterfinals

23 November 14:30	Japan	25–3	Singapore	Tianhe Natatorium, Guangzhou Referees: Shi (CHN), Chung (HKG)
	Score by quarters: 5–2, 5–1, 8–0, 7–0
	Shiota 5	Goals	Loh Z.Z., Lin Diyan, Lin Diyang 1

23 November 15:55	China	22–2	Saudi Arabia	Tianhe Natatorium, Guangzhou Referees: Lee (KOR), Tan (SIN)
	Score by quarters: 6–0, 4–2, 6–0, 6–0
	four players 3	Goals	Al-Dughather, Al-Laili 1

23 November 19:30	South Korea	4–3	Athletes from Kuwait	Tianhe Natatorium, Guangzhou Referees: Salnichenko (KAZ), Stavridis (GRE)
	Score by quarters: 1–0, 3–2, 0–1, 0–0
	four players 1	Goals	N. Al-Otaibi, A. Mandani, Khan 1

23 November 20:55	Hong Kong	1–25	Kazakhstan	Tianhe Natatorium, Guangzhou Referees: Al-Saad (KUW), Al-Sheaifi (KSA)
	Score by quarters: 0–8, 0–5, 1–8, 0–4
	To 1	Goals	Ruday 6

Classification 5th–8th

24 November 14:30	Saudi Arabia	7–9	Athletes from Kuwait	Tianhe Natatorium, Guangzhou Referees: Margeta (SLO), Koganov (AZE)
	Score by quarters: 2–1, 1–4, 2–2, 2–2
	Gahal 4	Goals	Ashour, Khan 2

24 November 15:55	Singapore	14–6	Hong Kong	Tianhe Natatorium, Guangzhou Referees: Ni (CHN), Lee (KOR)
	Score by quarters: 3–0, 2–2, 4–2, 5–2
	Teo Z.W. 4	Goals	Ku Y.W. 3

Semifinals

24 November 19:30	China	22–9	South Korea	Tianhe Natatorium, Guangzhou Referees: Makihashi (JPN), Tan (SIN)
	Score by quarters: 6–1, 5–1, 8–3, 3–4
	Tan F.H., Pan N. 4	Goals	Kim H.J., Park B.S. 2

24 November 20:55	Japan	8–10	Kazakhstan	Tianhe Natatorium, Guangzhou Referees: Bock (GER), Stavridis (GRE)
	Score by quarters: 2–3, 3–4, 1–0, 2–3
	Hazui 3	Goals	Gubarev 3

Classification 7th–8th

25 November 14:30	Saudi Arabia	20–11	Hong Kong	Tianhe Natatorium, Guangzhou Referees: Tan (SIN), Al-Saad (KUW)
	Score by quarters: 7–3, 3–1, 3–4, 7–3
	Al-Dughather 6	Goals	Zhao J.W. 4

Classification 5th–6th

25 November 15:55	Athletes from Kuwait	5–4	Singapore	Tianhe Natatorium, Guangzhou Referees: Makihashi (JPN), Bock (GER)
	Score by quarters: 1–1, 1–0, 1–1, 2–2
	N. Al-Otaibi, Bosakhar 2	Goals	Teo Z.W. 3

Bronze medal match

25 November 19:45	South Korea	5–19	Japan	Tianhe Natatorium, Guangzhou Referees: Ni (CHN), Margeta (SLO)
	Score by quarters: 1–2, 2–5, 0–6, 2–6
	Kang J.W., Lee D.J. 2	Goals	Shimizu 5

Gold medal match

25 November 21:10	China	6–7	Kazakhstan	Tianhe Natatorium, Guangzhou Referees: Stavridis (GRE), Koganov (AZE)
	Score by quarters: 4–2, 1–2, 0–1, 1–2
	Pan N. 4	Goals	Zhilyayev 2