Water polo at the 1912 Summer Olympics

Men's water polo
at the Games of the V Olympiad
Men's water polo; at the Games of the V Olympiad
Venue	Djurgårdsbrunnsviken
Dates	7–16 July
Competitors	46 from 6 nations
Medalists

The 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm saw the fourth water polo tournament at Olympics.[1] All games took place in the newly built swimming stadium in Djurgårdsbrunnsviken from 7 to 16 July 1912. All medals were decided by using the Bergvall system.[2]

Medal summary

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Great Britain (GBR)[1] Charles Sydney Smith George Cornet George Wilkinson Charles Bugbee Arthur Edwin Hill Paul Radmilovic Isaac Bentham	Sweden (SWE) Torsten Kumfeldt Harald Julin Max Gumpel Robert Andersson Pontus Hanson Vilhelm Andersson Erik Bergqvist	Belgium (BEL) Albert Durant Herman Donners Victor Boin Herman Meyboom Joseph Pletinckx Oscar Grégoire Félicien Courbet Jean Hoffman Pierre Nijs

The competitions in water polo were arranged on the Cup Tie (elimination) system, but in such a way that the necessary number of matches had to be played for the second and third prizes between the teams qualified to take part in these rounds. The principle was adopted that a team which had not been beaten, direct or indirect, by a team that was qualified to fight for the second or third prize, should have the right to play against the team last-mentioned, even if it (the first-named) had already been beaten by some other team. The teams entered were drawn in pairs for the first round, after which the order in which they were to meet in the second round was determined by drawing lots, so that the order in which the games were to be played, right up to the final, was fixed before the games began.

Participating nations

A total of 45 water polo players from 6 nations competed at the Stockholm Games:

Austria (7)
Belgium (9)
France (8)
Great Britain (7)
Hungary (7)
Sweden (7)

Bracket

First round		Second round		Gold medal match

7 July - Djurgårdsbrunnsviken

Great Britain (a.e.t.)	7
		11 July - Djurgårdsbrunnsviken
Belgium	5
		Great Britain	6
8 July - Djurgårdsbrunnsviken
		Sweden	3
Sweden	7
				13 July - Djurgårdsbrunnsviken
France	2
				Great Britain	8

				Austria	0



		Austria
9 July - Djurgårdsbrunnsviken
		No Opponent
Austria	5

Hungary	4

Main Tournament to Gold

First Round
7 July	Great Britain (GBR)	7	-	5	Belgium (BEL)	after extra time
	Hill (2), Wilkinson (2), Radmilovic (2), Bentham	(2	-	3)	Grégoire (2), Meyboom (2), Nijs

8 July	Sweden (SWE)	7	-	2	France (FRA)
	R. Andersson (3), Bergqvist (3), ?	(4	-	0)	Decoin, Provost

9 July	Austria (AUT)	5	-	4	Hungary (HUN)
	Scheff, ?	(1	-	2)	Fazekas, Hégner, Rémi, ?
Second Round
11 July	Great Britain (GBR)	6	-	3	Sweden (SWE)
	Wilkinson (3), Hill, Radmilovic, Bentham	(3	-	0)	R. Andersson (2), V. Andersson
Gold medal match
13 July	Great Britain (GBR)	8	-	0	Austria (AUT)
	?	(4	-	0)
Tournament to Silver
First Round
10 July	Belgium (BEL)	6	-	5	Hungary (HUN)
	?	(2	-	3)	Fazekas (3), Rémi, ?

11 July	Belgium (BEL)	4	-	1	France (FRA)
	?	(2	-	1)	?
Second Round
14 July	Sweden (SWE)	8	-	1	Austria (AUT)
	R. Andersson (3), Bergqvist (3), V. Andersson (2)	(5	-	1)	Scheff

15 July	Belgium (BEL)	5	-	4	Austria (AUT)
	?	(2	-	1)	Scheff, ?
Silver and Bronze medal match
16 July	Sweden (SWE)	4	-	2	Belgium (BEL)
	Bergqvist (2), V. Andersson, R. Andersson	(4	-	0)	?

The winning British water polo team.

Final standings

Place[1]	Nation
1	Great Britain (GBR)
2	Sweden (SWE)
3	Belgium (BEL)
4	Austria (AUT) Rudolf Buchfelder Richard Manuel Walter Schachlitz Otto Scheff Josef Wagner Ernst Kovács Hermann Buchfelder
5	Hungary (HUN) Sándor Ádám László Beleznai Tibor Fazekas Jenő Hégner Károly Rémi János Wenk Imre Zachár
6	France (FRA) Gustave Prouvost Gaston Van Laere Georges Rigal Paul Beulque Jean Thorailler Henri Decoin Paul Vasseur Jean Rodier

References

"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.
"Water Polo at the 1912 Stockholm Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 16 November 2019.

Sources

PDF documents in the LA84 Foundation Digital Library:
- Official Report of the 1912 Olympic Games (download, archive) (pp. 1021–1024, 1031–1037)
Water polo on the Olympedia website
- Water polo at the 1912 Summer Olympics (men's tournament)
Water polo on the Sports Reference website
- Water polo at the 1912 Summer Games (men's tournament) (archived)

External links

Bergvall, Erik (ed.) (1913). Adams-Ray, Edward (trans.). (ed.). The Official Report of the Olympic Games of Stockholm 1912. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand. {{cite book}}: |first= has generic name (help)
International Olympic Committee medal database

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[HistoFINA_PDF-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.

[SR-2] "Water Polo at the 1912 Stockholm Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 16 November 2019.