Water polo at the 2004 Summer Olympics

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Water polo at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place at the Olympic Aquatic Centre where women competed for only the second time in the event at the Summer Olympics.

Twelve teams battled it out for the gold medal in the men's event, where Russia was trying to avenge their defeat by Hungary at the Sydney Olympics. There were eight teams in the women's event where holders Australia were hoping to retain the title.

Men's teams
Group A: Croatia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro and United States.
Group B: Australia, Egypt, Germany, Greece, Italy and Spain

Women's teams
Group A: Australia, Greece, Italy and Kazakhstan.
Group B: Canada, Hungary, Russia and United States.

[edit] Medal winners

Men, Women

[edit] Men's

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Hungary Tibor Benedek Peter Biros Rajmund Fodor Istvan Gergely Tamas Kasas Gergely Kiss Norbert Madaras Tamas Molnar Adam Steinmetz Barnabas Steinmetz Zoltan Szecsi Tamas Varga Attila Vari	Serbia and Montenegro Aleksandar Ćirić Vladimir Gojković Danilo Ikodinović Viktor Jelenić Predrag Jokić Nikola Kuljača Slobodan Nikić Aleksandar Šapić Dejan Savić Denis Šefik Petar Trbojević Vanja Udovičić Vladimir Vujasinović	Russia Roman Balashov Revaz Chomakhidze Alexander Yerishev Alexander Fedorov Serguei Garbouzov Dmitry Gorshkov Nikolay Kozlov Nikolai Maximov Andrei Reketchinski Dmitri Stratan Vitaly Yurchik Marat Zakirov Irek Zinnurov

[edit] Prelimary round

Group A	Pld.	Win	Loss	Tie	GF	GA	Points
Hungary	5	5	0	0	44	27	10
Serbia and Montenegro	5	4	1	0	37	26	8
Russia	5	3	2	0	32	28	6
Croatia	5	2	3	0	36	40	4
United States	5	2	3	0	32	37	4
Kazakhstan	5	0	5	0	21	42	0

August 15

United States def. Croatia (7-6)
Hungary def. Serbia and Montenegro (6-4)
Russia def. Kazakhstan (5-2)

17 August

United States def. Kazakhstan (9-6)
Serbia and Montenegro def. Russia (4-3)
Hungary def. Croatia (10-8)

19 August

Serbia and Montenegro def. Kazakhstan (9-5)
Hungary def. United States (7-5)
Croatia def. Russia (9-8)

21 August

Hungary def. Kazakhstan (14-4)
Serbia and Montenegro def. Croatia (11-8)
Russia def. United States (9-7)

23 August

Croatia def. Kazakhstan (5-4)
Hungary def. Russia (7-6)
Serbia and Montenegro def. United States (9-4)

Group B	Pld.	Win	Loss	Tie	GF	GA	Points
Greece	5	4	1	0	43	27	8
Germany	5	3	1	1	40	28	7
Spain	5	3	2	0	35	31	6
Italy	5	3	2	0	39	24	6
Australia	5	1	3	1	37	35	3
Egypt	5	0	5	0	18	67	0

August 15

Australia def. Egypt (14-3)
Germany def. Greece (5-4)
Spain def. Italy (5-4)

August 17

Italy def. Australia (8-4)
Germany def. Egypt (13-3)
Greece def. Spain (8-5)

August 19

Spain def. Australia (8-4)
Italy def. Germany (10-5)
Greece def. Egypt (15-4)

August 21

Italy def. Egypt (13-4)
Germany def. Spain (11-5)
Greece def. Australia (10-9)

August 23

Australia ties Germany (6-6)
Spain def. Egypt (12-4)
Greece def. Italy (6-4)

[edit] Quarter-finals

August 25

Russia def. Germany (12-5)
Serbia and Montenegro def. Spain (7-5)

[edit] Classification 7th-12th

August 25

Australia def. Kazakhstan (10-5)
Croatia def. Egypt (12-1)

[edit] Semifinals

August 27

Hungary def. Russia (7-5)
Serbia and Montenegro def. Greece (7-3)

[edit] Classification 7th-10th

August 27

United States def. Australia (6-5)
Italy def. Croatia (11-7)

[edit] Classification 11th-12th

August 27

Kazakhstan def. Egypt (15-7)

[edit] 9th place match

August 29

Australia def. Croatia (8-7)

[edit] 7th place match

August 29

United States def. Italy (9-8)

[edit] 5th place match

August 29

Germany def. Spain (6-4)

[edit] 3rd place match

August 29

Russia def. Greece (6-5)

[edit] Finals

August 29

Hungary def. Serbia and Montenegro (8-7)

[edit] Women's Medallists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Italy Francesca Conti Martina Miceli Carmela Allucci Silvia Bosurgi Elena Gigli Manuela Zanchi Tania di Mario Cinzia Ragusa Giusy Malato Alexandra Araujo Maddalena Musumeci Melania Grego Noemi Toth Head Coach: —	Greece Georgia Ellinaki Dimitra Asilian Antiopi Melidoni Angeliki Karapataki Kyriaki Liosi Stavroula Kozompoli Aikaterini Oikonomopoulou Antigoni Roumpesi Evangelia Moraitidou Eftychia Karagianni Georgia Lara Antonia Moraiti Anthoula Mylonaki Head Coach: —	United States Jacqueline Frank Heather Petri Ericka Lorenz Brenda Villa Ellen Estes Natalie Golda Margaret Dingeldein Kelly Rulon Heather Moody Robin Beauregard Amber Stachowski Nicolle Payne Thalia Munro Head Coach: —

Preliminary Round

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Australia	5	3	2	1	0	22	16	+6
2.	Italy	4	3	2	0	1	20	14	+6
3.	Greece	3	3	1	1	1	17	20	–3
4.	Kazakhstan	0	3	0	0	3	16	25	–9

August 16

Australia def. Italy (6 - 5)
Greece def. Kazakhstan (8 - 6)

August 18

Australia def. Kazakhstan (9 - 4)
Italy def. Greece (7 - 2)

August 20

ITaly def. Kazakhstan (8 - 6)
Greece ties. Australia (7 - 7)

	Team	Points	G	W	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	United States	4	3	2	1	20	16	+4
2.	Russia	4	3	2	1	21	22	–1
3.	Hungary	2	3	1	2	19	20	–1
4.	Canada	2	3	1	2	16	18	–2

August 16

United States def. Hungary (7 - 6)
Russia def. Canada (8 - 6)

August 18

Canada def. United States (6 - 5)
Russia def. Hungary (9 - 8)

August 20

United States def. Russia (8 - 4)
Hungary def. Canada (5 - 4)

Quarter-finals August 22

Greece def. Russia (7 - 4)
Italy def. Hungary (8 - 5)
Canada def. Kaz (10 - 4) (Classification 7-8)

Semi-finals August 24

Italy def. United States (6 - 5)
Greece def. Australia (6 - 2)
Russia def. Hungary (12 - 11) (Classification 5-6)

Finals August 26

Italy def.Greece (10-9)
United States def. Australia (6-5) (Bronze medal game)

[edit] Teams

[edit] Men’s Rosters

[edit] AUSTRALIA

Pietro Figlioli, Trent Franklin, Toby Jenkins, Craig Miller, Sam McGegor, Tim Neesham, Aleksandr Osadchuk, Dean Semmens, James Stanton, Rafael Sterk, Nathan Thomas, Thomas Whalan, and Gavin Woods.
Head Coach: Erkin Shagaev.

[edit] CROATIA

Samir Barač, Damir Burić, Elvis Fatović, Nikola Franković, Igor Hinić, Vjekoslav Kobeščak, Danijel Premus, Dubravko Šimenc, Mile Smodlaka, Ratko Štritof, Frano Vican, Goran Volarević, and Tihomil Vranješ.
Head Coach: Zoran Roje.

[edit] EGYPT

Ragy Abdel Hady, Karim Abdelmohsen, Mahmoud Ahmed, Ahmed Badr, Shady El Helw, Omar El Sammany, Mohamed Gamaleldin, Sherif Khalil, Bassel Mashhour, Mohamed Mekkawi, Amr Mohamed, Walid Rezk, Hassan Sultan, and Ibrahim Zaher.
Head Coach: Adel Shamala.

[edit] GERMANY

Steffen Dierolf, Lukasz Kieloch, Tobias Kreuzmann, Soeren Mackeben, Heiko Nossek, Jens Pohlmann, Marc Politze, Thomas Schertwitis, Fabian Schroedter, Alexander Tchigir, Patrick Weissinger, Tim Wollthan, and Michael Zellmer.
Head Coach: Hagen Stamm.

[edit] GREECE

Christos Afroudakis,Nikolaos Trikoypis ,Georgios Afroudakis, Theodoros Chatzitheodorou, Nikolaos Deligiannis, Theodoros Kalakonas, Konstantinos Loudis, Dimitrios Mazis, Georgios Reppas, Stefanos Santa, Anastasios Schizas, Argyris Theodoropoulos, Ioannis Thomakos, and Antonios Vlontakis.
Head Coach: Alessandro Campagna.

[edit] HUNGARY

Tibor Benedek, Péter Biros, Rajmund Fodor, István Gergely, Tamás Kásás, Gergely Kiss, Norbert Madaras, Tamás Molnar, Ádám Steinmetz, Barnabás Steinmetz, Zoltán Szécsi, Tamás Varga, and Attila Vári
Head Coach: Dénes Kemény.

[edit] ITALY

Alberto Angelini, Fabio Bencivenga, Leonardo Binchi, Fabrizio Buonocore, Alessandro Calcaterra, Roberto Calcaterra, Maurizio Felugo, Goran Fiorentini, Marco Gerini, Francesco Postiglione, Bogdan Rath, Carlo Silipo, and Stefano Tempesti.
Head Coach: Paolo de Crescenzo.

[edit] KAZAKHSTAN

Daniyar Abulgazin, Sergey Drozdov, Alexandr Elke, Alexandr Gaidukov, Sergey Gorovoy, Alexandr Polukhin, Artemiy Sevostyanov, Alexandr Shidlovskiy, Alexandr Shvedov, Yuriy Smolovyy, Igor Zagoruiko, Ivan Zaitsev, and Yevgeniy Zhilyayev.
Head Coach: Askar Orazalinov.

[edit] RUSSIA

Roman Balashov, Revaz Chomakhidze, Alexander Eryshov, Alexander Fedorov, Sergey Garbuzov, Dmitry Gorshkov, Nikolay Kozlov, Nikolay Maksimov, Andrey Rekechinsky, Dmitry Stratan, Vitaly Yurchik, Marat Zakirov, and Irek Zinnurov.
Head Coach: Alexander Kabanov.

[edit] SPAIN

Angel Luis Andreo, Daniel Ballart, Javier Garcia, Salvador Gómez, Gabriel Hernandez, Gustavo Marcos, Guillermo Molina, Daniel Moro, Ivan Moro, Sergi Pedrerol, Ivan Perez, Jesus Rollan, and Javier Sanchez Toril.
Head Coach: Joan Jane.

[edit] SERBIA & MONTENEGRO

Aleksandar Ćirić, Vladimir Gojković, Danilo Ikodinović, Viktor Jelenić, Predrag Jokić, Nikola Kuljaca, Slobodan Nikić, Aleksandar Šapić, Dejan Savić, Denis Sefik, Petar Trbojević, Vanja Udovicic, and Vladimir Vujasinović.
Head Coach: Nenad Manojlović.

[edit] UNITED STATES

Omar Amr, Tony Azevedo, Ryan Baile, Layne Beaubien, Brandon Brooks, Genai Kerr, Daniel Klatt, Brett Ormsby, Jeffrey Powers, Christopher Segesman, Jesse Smith, Wolf Wigo, and Adam Wright.
Head Coach: Ratko Rudic.