Water polo at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

The men's tournament of water polo at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France was held from 28 July to 11 August 2024 at the Paris Aquatic Centre and Paris La Défense Arena.^[1] It was the 28th official appearance of the tournament, which was not held in 1896 and was a demonstration sport in 1904 but otherwise has been held at every Olympics. Serbia captured their third title with a win over Croatia, while the United States won bronze (first medal since 2008) by defeating Hungary.^[2]

Men's water polo
at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad

Tournament details
Host country	France
City	Paris
Venue(s)	Paris Aquatic Centre Paris La Défense Arena
Dates	28 July – 11 August
Teams	12 (from 4 confederations)
Competitors	144
Final positions
Champions	Serbia (3rd title)
Runners-up	Croatia
Third place	United States
Fourth place	Hungary
Tournament statistics
Matches	42
Goals scored	895 (21.31 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Dušan Mandić (26 goals)
Most saves	Adrian Weinberg (94 saves in 8 matches)
MVP	Dušan Mandić
← 2020 2028 →

Qualification

Main article: Water polo at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

Qualification	Date	Host	Berths	Qualified team
Host country	—		1	France
2023 World Aquatics Championships	17–29 July 2023	Fukuoka	2	Hungary
				Greece
2022 Asian Games	2–7 October 2023	Hangzhou	1	Japan
2023 Pan American Games	30 October – 4 November 2023	Santiago	1	United States
2024 European Championships	4–16 January 2024	Dubrovnik/Zagreb	1	Spain
2024 World Aquatics Championships	5–17 February 2024	Doha	4	Croatia
				Italy
				Serbia
				Montenegro
2024 World Aquatics Championships – Africa			1	South Africa
2024 World Aquatics Championships – Oceania			1	Australia
2024 World Aquatics Championships – Reallocation			1	Romania[a]
Total			12

1. South Africa withdrew from the tournament after the 2024 World Aquatics Championships. Romania, as the best non-qualified team, took their spot.^[3]

Competition format

The twelve teams were seeded into two groups for a preliminary round. The teams in each group played a round-robin. The top four teams in each group advanced to the knockout round while the fifth- and sixth- placed teams were eliminated. The fifth placed teams was ranked ninth and tenth based on win–loss record, then goal average; the sixth-placed teams was ranked eleventh and twelfth in the same way. The knockout round began with quarterfinals and the winners advanced to the semifinals, while the quarterfinal losers played in the fifth- to eighth- place classification. The two semifinal winners played in the gold medal match, while the two semifinal losers played in the bronze medal match.^[4]

Schedule

The competition began on 28 July, and matches were held every other day.^[5]

Legend

G

Group stage

¼

Quarter-finals

½

Semi-finals

B

Bronze medal match

F

Gold medal match

Sun 28	Mon 29	Tue 30	Wed 31	Thu 1	Fri 2	Sat 3	Sun 4	Mon 5	Tue 6	Wed 7	Thu 8	Fri 9	Sat 10	Sun 11
G		G		G		G		G		¼		½		B	F

Draw

The draw took place on 17 February 2024 in Doha, Qatar.^[6]

Seeding

The twelve teams in the men's tournament were drawn into two groups of six teams. The teams were seeded into six pots.^[7]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4	Pot 5	Pot 6
Hungary  Greece	Croatia  Spain	Australia  United States	Japan  Romania	Italy  Serbia	Montenegro  France (hosts)

Rosters

Main article: Water polo at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's team rosters

Referees

The following 24 referees were selected for the tournament.^[8]

• Nicholas Hodgers
• Hélène Painchaud
• Zhang Liang
• Andrej Franulović
• Yasser Mehalhel
• Aurélie Blanchard
• Sébastien Dervieux
• Frank Ohme
• Natalia Markopoulou
• Georgios Stavridis
• Nóra Debreceni
• Tamás Kovács
• Rafaele Colombo
• Alessia Ferrari
• Chisato Kurosaki
• Veselin Mišković
• Michiel Zwart
• Adrian Alexandrescu
• Boris Margeta
• Vojin Putniković
• Marta Cabañas
• David Gómez
• Jennifer McCall
• Darren Spiritosanto

Preliminary round

All times are local (UTC+2).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	PSW	PSL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Greece	5	3	1	0	1	61	52	+9	11[a]	Quarterfinals
2	Italy	5	3	1	0	1	60	43	+17	11[a]
3	United States	5	3	0	0	2	59	51	+8	9[b]
4	Croatia	5	3	0	0	2	58	57	+1	9[b]
5	Montenegro	5	1	0	2	2	45	50	−5	5
6	Romania	5	0	0	0	5	37	67	−30	0

Source: Olympics
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference.
Notes:

1. Greece 9–8 Italy
2. Croatia 11–14 United States

28 July 2024 (2024-07-28) 15:00 v	Report	Italy	12–8	United States	Paris Aquatic Centre, Paris Referees: Tamás Kovács (HUN), Vojin Putniković (SRB)
		Score by quarters: 4–2, 1–1, 4–1, 3–4
		three players 2	Goals	Daube 3

28 July 2024 (2024-07-28) 16:35 v	Report	Croatia	11–8	Montenegro	Paris Aquatic Centre, Paris Referees: Boris Margeta (SLO), David Gómez (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 3–1, 2–4, 3–1, 3–2
		Fatović 3	Goals	Đurđić 3

28 July 2024 (2024-07-28) 21:05 v	Report	Romania	7–14	Greece	Paris Aquatic Centre, Paris Referees: Michiel Zwart (NED), Zhang Liang (CHN)
		Score by quarters: 2–4, 3–5, 1–2, 1–3
		Georgescu, Neamțu 2	Goals	Argyropoulos 4

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30 July 2024 (2024-07-30) 12:05 v	Report	Croatia	11–14	Italy	Paris Aquatic Centre, Paris Referees: Michiel Zwart (NED), Sébastien Dervieux (FRA)
		Score by quarters: 4–3, 2–3, 3–6, 2–2
		Fatović, Kharkov 2	Goals	Di Fulvio 4

30 July 2024 (2024-07-30) 16:35 v	Report	United States	14–8	Romania	Paris Aquatic Centre, Paris Referees: David Gómez (ESP), Nicholas Hodgers (AUS)
		Score by quarters: 3–3, 3–0, 4–1, 4–4
		Bowen, Daube 3	Goals	Colodrovschi, Georgescu 3

30 July 2024 (2024-07-30) 19:30 v	Report	Montenegro	16–17	Greece	Paris Aquatic Centre, Paris Referees: Frank Ohme (GER), Tamás Kovács (HUN)
		Score by quarters: 4–2, 3–3, 2–3, 3–4  PSO: 4–5
		Popadić 4	Goals	Vlachopoulos 3

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1 August 2024 (2024-08-01) 10:30 v	Report	Greece	13–11	United States	Paris Aquatic Centre, Paris Referees: David Gómez (ESP), Sébastien Dervieux (FRA)
		Score by quarters: 4–4, 3–2, 4–3, 2–2
		Argyropoulos 4	Goals	Bowen, Irving 2

1 August 2024 (2024-08-01) 16:35 v	Report	Italy	11–9	Montenegro	Paris Aquatic Centre, Paris Referees: Boris Margeta (SLO), Michiel Zwart (NED)
		Score by quarters: 2–2, 2–2, 3–3, 1–1  PSO: 3–1
		Di Fulvio, Echenique 2	Goals	Popadić 3

1 August 2024 (2024-08-01) 19:30 v	Report	Romania	8–11	Croatia	Paris Aquatic Centre, Paris Referees: Tamás Kovács (HUN), Chisato Kurosaki (JPN)
		Score by quarters: 0–3, 3–3, 4–5, 1–0
		Fulea, Țepeluș 2	Goals	three players 2

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3 August 2024 (2024-08-03) 12:05 v	Report	Croatia	14–13	Greece	Paris Aquatic Centre, Paris Referees: Vojin Putniković (SRB), David Gómez (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 3–3, 1–3, 7–3, 3–4
		Kharkov 4	Goals	five players 2

3 August 2024 (2024-08-03) 16:35 v	Report	Montenegro	7–12	United States	Paris Aquatic Centre, Paris Referees: Frank Ohme (GER), Zhang Liang (CHN)
		Score by quarters: 1–4, 1–3, 4–3, 1–2
		Đurđić 3	Goals	Daube 5

3 August 2024 (2024-08-03) 21:05 v	Report	Italy	18–7	Romania	Paris Aquatic Centre, Paris Referees: Tamás Kovács (HUN), Nicholas Hodgers (AUS)
		Score by quarters: 6–2, 4–1, 5–1, 3–3
		three players 3	Goals	Colodrovschi 3

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5 August 2024 (2024-08-05) 15:10 v	Report	Greece	9–8	Italy	Paris La Défense Arena, Paris Referees: Michiel Zwart (NED), Zhang Liang (CHN)
		Score by quarters: 2–2, 4–3, 0–1, 3–2
		Argyropoulos 4	Goals	Bruni, Condemi 3

5 August 2024 (2024-08-05) 18:30 v	Report	Croatia	11–14	United States	Paris La Défense Arena, Paris Referees: Sébastien Dervieux (FRA), Frank Ohme (GER)
		Score by quarters: 2–5, 3–5, 2–1, 4–3
		Kharkov 5	Goals	Daube, Irving 3

5 August 2024 (2024-08-05) 21:40 v	Report	Romania	7–10	Montenegro	Paris La Défense Arena, Paris Referees: Boris Margeta (SLO), Yasser Mehalhel (EGY)
		Score by quarters: 3–3, 1–2, 1–2, 2–3
		Fulea 2	Goals	Mršić 3

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	PSW	PSL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	5	5	0	0	0	67	39	+28	15	Quarterfinals
2	Australia	5	3	0	0	2	44	42	+2	9[a]
3	Hungary	5	3	0	0	2	62	54	+8	9[a]
4	Serbia	5	2	0	0	3	58	63	−5	6
5	France (H)	5	1	0	0	4	50	60	−10	3[b]
6	Japan	5	1	0	0	4	60	83	−23	3[b]

Source: Olympics
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference.
(H) Host
Notes:

1. Australia 9–8 Hungary
2. France 14–13 Japan

28 July 2024 (2024-07-28) 10:30 v	Report	Australia	5–9	Spain	Paris Aquatic Centre, Paris Referees: Georgios Stavridis (GRE), Darren Spiritosanto (USA)
		Score by quarters: 1–2, 2–3, 1–3, 1–1
		Lambie, Maksimovic 2	Goals	Munárriz 3

28 July 2024 (2024-07-28) 12:05 v	Report	Serbia	16–15	Japan	Paris Aquatic Centre, Paris Referees: Rafaele Colombo (ITA), Veselin Mišković (MNE)
		Score by quarters: 4–4, 3–4, 5–3, 4–4
		Mandić 7	Goals	Inaba 6

28 July 2024 (2024-07-28) 19:30 v	Report	France	12–13	Hungary	Paris Aquatic Centre, Paris Referees: Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU), Andrej Franulović (CRO)
		Score by quarters: 1–5, 4–4, 2–1, 5–3
		Vernoux 4	Goals	Vigvári 3

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30 July 2024 (2024-07-30) 10:30 v	Report	Australia	8–3	Serbia	Paris Aquatic Centre, Paris Referees: Andrej Franulović (CRO), Zhang Liang (CHN)
		Score by quarters: 1–0, 5–1, 1–0, 1–2
		Pavillard 4	Goals	Mandić 2

30 July 2024 (2024-07-30) 15:00 v	Report	Japan	13–14	France	Paris Aquatic Centre, Paris Referees: Georgios Stavridis (GRE), Darren Spiritosanto (USA)
		Score by quarters: 4–4, 2–3, 3–3, 4–4
		Inaba 6	Goals	Bodegas 3

30 July 2024 (2024-07-30) 21:05 v	Report	Spain	10–7	Hungary	Paris Aquatic Centre, Paris Referees: Boris Margeta (SLO), Rafaele Colombo (ITA)
		Score by quarters: 2–1, 2–2, 4–3, 2–1
		three players 2	Goals	Angyal 2

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1 August 2024 (2024-08-01) 12:05 v	Report	Serbia	11–15	Spain	Paris Aquatic Centre, Paris Referees: Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU), Rafaele Colombo (ITA)
		Score by quarters: 3–4, 3–3, 3–3, 2–5
		Mandić 4	Goals	Granados 4

1 August 2024 (2024-08-01) 15:00 v	Report	France	8–9	Australia	Paris Aquatic Centre, Paris Referees: Andrej Franulović (CRO), Veselin Mišković (MNE)
		Score by quarters: 0–1, 3–3, 2–3, 3–2
		Crousillat, Bjoch 3	Goals	Maksimovic 3

1 August 2024 (2024-08-01) 21:05 v	Report	Hungary	17–10	Japan	Paris Aquatic Centre, Paris Referees: Frank Ohme (GER), Zhang Liang (CHN)
		Score by quarters: 5–2, 4–2, 3–2, 5–4
		Vigvári 4	Goals	Watanabe 3

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3 August 2024 (2024-08-03) 10:30 v	Report	Spain	23–8	Japan	Paris Aquatic Centre, Paris Referees: Michiel Zwart (NED), Darren Spiritosanto (USA)
		Score by quarters: 4–0, 6–2, 7–4, 6–2
		Sanahuja 5	Goals	Okawa 2

3 August 2024 (2024-08-03) 15:00 v	Report	Australia	9–8	Hungary	Paris Aquatic Centre, Paris Referees: Georgios Stavridis (GRE), Veselin Mišković (MNE)
		Score by quarters: 2–2, 2–3, 2–2, 3–1
		Edwards, Maksimovic 2	Goals	Manhercz 4

3 August 2024 (2024-08-03) 19:30 v	Report	Serbia	15–8	France	Paris Aquatic Centre, Paris Referees: Boris Margeta (SLO), Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU)
		Score by quarters: 4–2, 4–2, 4–2, 3–2
		four players 2	Goals	Marzouki, Vernoux 2

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5 August 2024 (2024-08-05) 12:00 v	Report	Hungary	17–13	Serbia	Paris La Défense Arena, Paris Referees: Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU), Andrej Franulović (CRO)
		Score by quarters: 2–4, 7–3, 6–2, 2–4
		Fekete, Zalánki 4	Goals	Mandić 5

5 August 2024 (2024-08-05) 13:35 v	Report	Australia	13–14	Japan	Paris La Défense Arena, Paris Referees: Rafaele Colombo (ITA), Darren Spiritosanto (USA)
		Score by quarters: 5–2, 2–4, 2–4, 4–4
		Maksimovic 3	Goals	Inaba 6

5 August 2024 (2024-08-05) 20:05 v	Report	France	8–10	Spain	Paris La Défense Arena, Paris Referees: Georgios Stavridis (GRE), Veselin Mišković (MNE)
		Score by quarters: 1–3, 2–2, 4–2, 1–3
		Crousillat 3	Goals	Munárriz, Sanahuja 3

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Gold medal
	7 August
	Greece	11
					9 August
	Serbia	12
					Serbia	10
	7 August
					United States	6
	United States (PSO)	7 (4)
									11 August
	Australia	7 (3)
									Serbia	13
	7 August
									Croatia	11
	Italy	9 (1)
					9 August
	Hungary (PSO)	9 (3)
					Hungary	8
	7 August
					Croatia	9			Bronze medal
	Croatia	10
									11 August
	Spain	8
									United States (PSO)	8 (3)
									Hungary	8 (0)

Fifth place bracket

	5–8th place semifinals				Fifth place
	9 August
	Greece	15
					11 August
	Australia	9
					Greece	15
	9 August
					Spain	13
	Italy	9
	Spain	11
					Seventh place
					10 August
					Australia	6
					Italy	10

Quarterfinals

7 August 2024 (2024-08-07) 14:00 v	Report	Croatia	10–8	Spain	Paris La Défense Arena, Paris Referees: Boris Margeta (SLO), Darren Spiritosanto (USA)
		Score by quarters: 2–0, 4–3, 2–2, 2–3
		three players 2	Goals	three players 2

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7 August 2024 (2024-08-07) 15:35 v	Report	Greece	11–12	Serbia	Paris La Défense Arena, Paris Referees: Frank Ohme (GER), Andrej Franulović (CRO)
		Score by quarters: 3–3, 2–3, 4–2, 2–4
		Skoumpakis 3	Goals	Mandić 5

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7 August 2024 (2024-08-07) 19:00 v	Report	United States	11–10	Australia	Paris La Défense Arena, Paris Referees: Rafaele Colombo (ITA), Sébastien Dervieux (FRA)
		Score by quarters: 1–3, 2–2, 2–0, 2–2  PSO: 4–3
		Bowen, Daube 2	Goals	Pavillard 4

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7 August 2024 (2024-08-07) 20:35 v	Report	Italy	10–12	Hungary	Paris La Défense Arena, Paris Referees: Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU), Veselin Mišković (MNE)
		Score by quarters: 2–3, 0–1, 5–2, 2–3  PSO: 1–3
		Di Fulvio, Echenique 3	Goals	Manhercz 4

5–8th place semifinals

9 August 2024 (2024-08-09) 13:00 v	Report	Italy	9–11	Spain	Paris La Défense Arena, Paris Referees: Michiel Zwart (NED), Sébastien Dervieux (FRA)
		Score by quarters: 0–4, 3–2, 3–3, 3–2
		Echenique, Iocchi Gratta 2	Goals	Granados, Perrone 3

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9 August 2024 (2024-08-09) 18:00 v	Report	Greece	15–9	Australia	Paris La Défense Arena, Paris Referees: Tamás Kovács (HUN), Andrej Franulović (CRO)
		Score by quarters: 3–1, 2–2, 5–3, 5–3
		Kakaris 4	Goals	three players 2

Semifinals

9 August 2024 (2024-08-09) 14:35 v	Report	Serbia	10–6	United States	Paris La Défense Arena, Paris Referees: Georgios Stavridis (GRE), Rafaele Colombo (ITA)
		Score by quarters: 2–2, 4–2, 2–2, 2–0
		Dedović 4	Goals	Vavic 2

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9 August 2024 (2024-08-09) 19:35 v	Report	Hungary	8–9	Croatia	Paris La Défense Arena, Paris Referees: Frank Ohme (GER), David Gómez (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 3–3, 2–4, 2–2, 1–0
		Jansik, Vámos 2	Goals	Fatović 5

Seventh place game

10 August 2024 (2024-08-10) 19:35 v	Report	Australia	6–10	Italy	Paris La Défense Arena, Paris Referees: David Gómez (ESP), Chisato Kurosaki (JPN)
		Score by quarters: 1–2, 1–3, 2–4, 2–1
		Maksimovic 2	Goals	Iocchi Gratta 3

Fifth place game

11 August 2024 (2024-08-11) 09:00 v	Report	Greece	15–13	Spain	Paris La Défense Arena, Paris Referees: Frank Ohme (GER), Rafaele Colombo (ITA)
		Score by quarters: 2–2, 6–4, 4–1, 3–6
		three players 3	Goals	Sanahuja 3

Bronze medal game

11 August 2024 (2024-08-11) 10:35 v	Report	United States	11–8	Hungary	Paris La Défense Arena, Paris Referees: Sébastien Dervieux (FRA), David Gómez (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 3–2, 1–1, 2–2, 2–3  PSO: 3–0
		Hallock 2	Goals	Varga, Zalánki 2

Gold medal game

11 August 2024 (2024-08-11) 14:00 v	Report	Serbia	13–11	Croatia	Paris La Défense Arena, Paris Referees: Boris Margeta (SLO), Michiel Zwart (NED)
		Score by quarters: 5–2, 3–3, 3–3, 2–3
		Ćuk 3	Goals	Marinić Kragić 3

Final ranking

Main article: List of men's Olympic water polo tournament records and statistics

See also: National team appearances in the men's Olympic water polo tournament

Rank Team[9]  Serbia  Croatia  United States 4  Hungary 5  Greece 6  Spain 7  Italy 8  Australia 9  Montenegro 10  France 11  Japan 12  Romania

2024 Men's Olympic champions  Serbia Third title

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Goals[10]	Shots	%
1	Dušan Mandić	26	49	53
2	Loren Fatović	22	44	50
3	Yusuke Inaba	21	45	47
4	Álvaro Granados	20	51	39
5	Stylianos Argyropoulos	18	41	44
	Hannes Daube		31	58
7	Konstantin Kharkov	17	35	49
8	Milos Maksimovic	16	39	41
	Alberto Munárriz		43	37
	Bernat Sanahuja		38	42

Awards

The all-star team was announced on 11 August 2024.^[11]

Position	Player
Goalkeeper	Adrian Weinberg
Field players	Alvaro Granados
	Hannes Daube
	Dušan Mandić
	Yusuke Inaba
	Loren Fatović
	Krisztián Manhercz
MVP	Dušan Mandić

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Serbia (SRB)[12] Radoslav Filipović (GK) Dušan Mandić Strahinja Rašović Sava Ranđelović Miloš Ćuk Nikola Dedović Radomir Drašović Nikola Jakšić (C) Nemanja Ubović Nemanja Vico Petar Jakšić Viktor Rašović Vladimir Mišović (GK) Head coach: Uroš Stevanović	Croatia (CRO)[12] Marko Bijač (GK, C) Rino Burić Loren Fatović Luka Lončar Maro Joković Luka Bukić Ante Vukičević Marko Žuvela Jerko Marinić Kragić Josip Vrlić Matias Biljaka Konstantin Kharkov Toni Popadić (GK) Head coach: Ivica Tucak	United States (USA)[12] Adrian Weinberg (GK) Johnny Hooper Marko Vavic Alex Obert Hannes Daube Luca Cupido Ben Hallock (C) Dylan Woodhead Alex Bowen Chase Dodd Ryder Dodd Max Irving Drew Holland (GK) Head coach: Dejan Udovičić

See also

• Water polo at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament