Water polo at the 1912 Summer Olympics

Men's water polo at the Games of the V Olympiad
Venue	Djurgårdsbrunnsviken
Dates	July 7–16
Competitors	46 from 6 nations
Medalists
Great Britain men's national water polo team Great Britain   Sweden men's national water polo team Sweden   Belgium men's national water polo team Belgium

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

Medal summary

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Great Britain Charles Sydney Smith George Cornet George Wilkinson Charles Bugbee Arthur Edwin Hill Paul Radmilovic Isaac Bentham	Sweden Torsten Kumfeldt Harald Julin Max Gumpel Robert Andersson Pontus Hanson Vilhelm Andersson Erik Bergqvist	Belgium 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
	July 7 - Djurgårdsbrunnsviken
	Great Britain (a.e.t.)	7
					July 11 - Djurgårdsbrunnsviken
	Belgium	5
					Great Britain	6
	July 8 - Djurgårdsbrunnsviken
					Sweden	3
	Sweden	7
									July 13 - Djurgårdsbrunnsviken
	France	2
									Great Britain	8
									Austria	0
					Austria
	July 9 - Djurgårdsbrunnsviken
					bye
	Austria	5
	Hungary	4

Results

Main Tournament to Gold

First Round
July 7		Great Britain (GBR)	7	-	5	Belgium (BEL)	after extra time
		Wilkinson (2), Radmilovic (2), Bentham	(2	-	3)	Grégoire (2), Meyboom (2), Nijs
July 8		Sweden (SWE)	7	-	2	France (FRA)
		R. Andersson (3), Bergqvist (3), ?	(4	-	0)	Decoin, Provost
July 9		Austria (AUT)	5	-	4	Hungary (HUN)
		Scheff, ?	(1	-	2)	Fazekas, Hégner, Rémi, ?
Second Round
July 11		Great Britain (GBR)	6	-	3	Sweden (SWE)
		Wilkinson (3), Hill, Radmilovic, Bentham	(3	-	0)	R. Andersson (2), V. Andersson
Gold medal match
July 13		Great Britain (GBR)	8	-	0	Austria (AUT)
		?	(4	-	0)
Tournament to Silver
First Round
July 10		Belgium (BEL)	6	-	5	Hungary (HUN)
		?	(2	-	3)	Fazekas (3), Rémi, ?
July 11		Belgium (BEL)	4	-	1	France (FRA)
		?	(2	-	1)	?
Second Round
July 14		Sweden (SWE)	8	-	1	Austria (AUT)
		R. Andersson (3), Bergqvist (3), V. Andersson (2)	(5	-	1)	Scheff
July 15		Belgium (BEL)	5	-	4	Austria (AUT)
		?	(2	-	1)	Scheff, ?
Silver and Bronze medal match
July 16		Sweden (SWE)	4	-	2	Belgium (BEL)
		Bergqvist (2), V. Andersson, R. Andersson	(4	-	0)	?

The winning British water polo team.

Final standings

Place	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
-	Hungary (HUN) Sándor Ádám László Beleznai Tibor Fazekas Jenő Hégner Károly Rémi János Wenk Imre Zachár
	France (FRA) Gustave Prouvost Gaston Vanlaere Georges Rigal Paul Beulque Jean Thorailles Henri Decoin Paul Vasseur Jean Rodier

References

• Bergvall, Erik (ed.) (1913). Adams-Ray, Edward (trans.)., ed. The Official Report of the Olympic Games of Stockholm 1912. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand. 
• International Olympic Committee medal database

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