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Manuel Estiarte of Spain is the only water polo player to compete at six Olympic Games (1980–2000).. The following table is pre-sorted by number of Olympic appearances (in descending order), year of the last Olympic appearance (in ascending order), year of the first Olympic appearance (in ascending order), date of birth (in ascending order), name of the player (in ascending order), respectively.
Piet Salomons; Yevgeny Saltsyn; Mirko Sandić; Aleksa Šaponjić; Aleksandar Šapić; Dejan Savić; John Scherrenburg; Wim van de Schilde; Ton Schmidt; Jan Scholte
Men's water polo at the Olympics was the first team sport introduced at the 1900 games, along with cricket, rugby, football, polo (with horses), rowing and tug of war. [19] Women's water polo became an Olympic sport at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games after political protests from the Australian women's team. [20]
Dezső Gyarmati is the first and only athlete (man or woman) to win five Olympic medals in water polo (three gold, one silver and one bronze). [ 1 ] Filip Filipović , Duško Pijetlović and Andrija Prlainović , all representing Serbia, won four consecutive Olympic medals between 2008 and 2021.
The following table is pre-sorted by number of total goals (in descending order), number of total matches played (in ascending order), edition of the Olympics (in ascending order), name of the player (in ascending order), respectively. Tony Azevedo is the top scorer of all time for the United States men's Olympic water polo team, with 61 goals.
Top goalscorer: the water polo player who scored the most goals in a tournament. Top goalkeeper: the water polo player who saved the most shots in a tournament. Top sprinter: the water polo player who won the most sprints in a tournament. Most Valuable Player: the water polo player who was named the Most Valuable Player of a tournament.
This article contains lists of those nations that have won a water polo world medal, referring to any of the men's and women's tournament at the Olympic Games, men's and women's tournament at the FINA World Aquatics Championships, men's and women's FINA Water Polo World Cup, and men's and women's FINA Water Polo World League.
The United States women's national water polo team represents the United States in international women's water polo competitions and friendly matches. It is one of the leading teams in the world since the late 1990s. Women's water polo has been on the international stage since 1978 and was an exhibition sport at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics ...