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Water polo at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

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Host country
  
Great Britain

Runner-up
  
Italy

Fourth place
  
Montenegro

Location
  
Water Polo Arena

Goals scored
  
763

Champions
  
Croatia (1st title)

Third place
  
Serbia

Dates
  
29 Jul 2012 – 12 Aug 2012

Match
  
40

Venues
  
1

Water polo at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

Teams
  
12 (from 4 confederations)

The men's tournament of water polo at the 2012 Summer Olympics at London, Great Britain, began on 29 July and lasted until 12 August 2012. All games were held at the Water Polo Arena.

Contents

Teams from twelve nations competed in the tournament and were seeded into two groups for the preliminary round. A total of 42 games were played, 30 of them in the preliminary round.

Format

The format of water polo at the 2012 Summer Olympics:

  • Twelve teams were divided into two preliminary groups, composed of six teams each, and played a single round robin in each group.
  • The top 4 teams from each group played against each other in a cross-group format in the Quarterfinals.
  • Winners from the Quarterfinal progressed to the Semifinals and played against another winner from the Quarterfinal round. Losers went on to play classification games.
  • Winners of the Semifinals contested the gold medal game and the losers the bronze medal game.

    • Group A

    All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1).

    Medal round

    Bracket

    Classification

    Bracket

    References

    Water polo at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament Wikipedia
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