Water polo at the 1968 Summer Olympics

The Water Polo Tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics was held from October 14 to October 25, 1968, in Mexico City, Mexico.

Teams

GROUP A

• Australia (excluded)
• Brazil
• Cuba
• Hungary
• Soviet Union
• Spain
• United States
• West Germany

GROUP B

• East Germany
• Egypt
• Greece
• Italy
• Japan
• Mexico
• Netherlands
• Yugoslavia

Preliminary round

Group A

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Hungary	12	6	6	0	0	39	14	+25
2.	Soviet Union	10	6	5	0	1	43	18	+25
3.	United States	7	6	3	1	2	37	36	+1
4.	Cuba	7	6	3	1	2	31	35	–4
5.	West Germany	4	6	2	0	4	33	34	–1
6.	Spain	1	6	0	1	5	20	37	–17
7.	Brazil	1	6	0	1	5	22	51	–29

• October 14, 1968

United States	10 – 5	Brazil
Soviet Union	11 – 4	Cuba
West Germany	5 – 3	Spain

• October 15, 1968

Cuba	9 – 2	Brazil

• October 16, 1968

Hungary	6 – 4	West Germany
United States	10 – 7	Spain

• October 17, 1968

Soviet Union	6 – 3	West Germany
Cuba	6 – 6	United States
Hungary	7 – 1	Spain

• October 19, 1968

Soviet Union	5 – 0	Spain
Hungary	5 – 1	United States
West Germany	10 – 5	Brazil

• October 20, 1968

Cuba	7 – 6	West Germany
Spain	6 – 6	Brazil
Hungary	6 – 5	Soviet Union

• October 21, 1968

Cuba	4 – 3	Spain
Soviet Union	8 – 3	United States
Hungary	8 – 2	Brazil

• October 22, 1968

Soviet Union	8 – 2	Brazil
United States	7 – 5	West Germany
Hungary	7 – 1	Cuba

Group B

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Italy	13	7	6	1	0	48	21	+27
2.	Yugoslavia	11	7	5	1	1	65	18	+47
3.	East Germany	11	7	5	1	1	66	22	+44
4.	Netherlands	9	7	4	1	2	42	28	+14
5.	Japan	6	7	3	0	4	26	57	–31
6.	Mexico	3	7	1	1	5	27	56	–29
7.	Greece	2	7	1	0	6	34	62	–28
8.	Egypt	1	7	0	1	6	21	65	–44

• October 14, 1968

Netherlands	9 – 5	Greece
Yugoslavia	13 – 2	Egypt
Italy	9 – 2	Japan
Mexico	4 – 12	East Germany

• October 15, 1968

Japan	8 – 7	Greece
Italy	10 – 1	Egypt
East Germany	4 – 4	Yugoslavia

• October 16, 1968

Mexico	1 – 8	Netherlands
Greece	7 – 6	Egypt
Italy	5 – 4	East Germany

• October 17, 1968

Mexico	0 – 9	Yugoslavia
Netherlands	9 – 1	Japan

• October 19, 1968

East Germany	11 – 4	Greece
Japan	7 – 4	Egypt
Mexico	5 – 10	Italy
Yugoslavia	7 – 4	Netherlands

• October 20, 1968

Italy	5 – 4	Yugoslavia
East Germany	8 – 0	Japan
Mexico	11 – 8	Greece
Netherlands	6 – 3	Egypt

• October 21, 1968

Mexico	3 – 6	Japan
Yugoslavia	11 – 1	Greece
Netherlands	3 – 3	Italy
East Germany	19 – 2	Egypt

• October 22, 1968

Mexico	3 – 3	Egypt
Italy	6 – 2	Greece
East Germany	8 – 3	Netherlands
Yugoslavia	17 – 2	Japan

Classification Round

• October 24, 1968 — 13th/15th place

Brazil	5 – 3	Egypt

• October 24, 1968 — 9th/12th place

Mexico	3 – 6	West Germany
Spain	5 – 0	Japan

• October 24, 1968 — 5th/8th place

East Germany	8 – 2	Cuba
United States	6 – 3	Netherlands

• October 24, 1968 — Semi Finals

Yugoslavia	8 – 6	Hungary
Soviet Union	8 – 5	Italy

Final round

• October 25, 1968 — 13th place

Brazil	5 – 2	Greece

• October 25, 1968 — 11th place

Mexico	5 – 4	Japan

• October 25, 1968 — 9th place

Spain	7 – 5	West Germany

• October 25, 1968 — 7th place

Netherlands	8 – 5	Cuba

• October 25, 1968 — 5th place

United States	6 – 4	East Germany

• October 25, 1968 — Bronze Medal Match

Hungary	9 – 4	Italy

• October 25, 1968 — Gold Medal Match

Yugoslavia	13 – 11 [aet]	Soviet Union

Final ranking

RANK	TEAM
	Yugoslavia
	Soviet Union
	Hungary
4.	Italy
5.	United States
6.	East Germany
7.	Netherlands
8.	Cuba
9.	Spain
10.	West Germany
11.	Mexico
12.	Japan
13.	Brazil
14.	Greece
15.	Egypt

1968 Men's Olympic Games Winners
Yugoslavia First title

Medallists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Yugoslavia Ozren Bonačić Dejan Dabović Zdravko Hebel Zoran Janković Ronald Lopatni Uroš Marović Đorđe Perišić Miroslav Poljak Mirko Sandić Karlo Stipanić Ivo Trumbić Head Coach: —	Soviet Union Vadim Gulyaev Givi Chikvanaya Boris Grishin Aleksandr Dolgushin Aleksei Barkalov Yuri Grigorovsky Vladimir Semyonov Aleksandr Shidlovsky Vyacheslav Skok Leonid Osipov Oleg Bovin Head Coach: —	Hungary András Bodnár Zoltán Dömötör László Felkai Ferenc Konrád János Konrád Mihály Mayer László Sárosi János Steinmetz Endre Molnár Dénes Pócsik István Szívós, Jr. Head Coach: Markovits Kálmán

References

• NBCsports
• Results