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The U.S. has been the dominant force in women’s water polo for more than a decade, winning gold medals in the 2012, 2016 and 2020 Olympics (postponed a year due to COVID).
This article lists various water polo records and statistics in relation to the Australia women's national water polo team at the Summer Olympics. The Australia women's national water polo team has participated in 5 of 5 official women's water polo tournaments. [1]
Following 6th place at the 1994 World Aquatics Championships in Rome, Italy, they won the women's Water polo World Cup at home in Sydney, Australia, in 1995. In 1996, the women won the silver medal in the Olympic Year Tournament behind the Netherlands, then finished with bronze in the following year's World Cup in Nancy, France.
The forerunner of the current national Water polo championship was the Australian Water Polo Club Championship, which was contested annually from 1975 until 1990 for men, and from 1984 until 2003 for women. [4] Today, the Australian Water Polo League (AWL) is Australia’s premier domestic water polo competition.
In 2022, Andrews debuted in Australia's women's national water polo team in connection with the FINA Water Polo World League Intercontinental Cup in Peru. [1] Andrews then made her Olympic debut at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris where she won the silver medal in the women's water polo event .
The Australian Water Polo League (formerly known as the Australian National Water Polo League) is the premier Australian domestic water polo competition. The men's league was established in 1990 with the women's league following in 2004.
Women's water polo became an Olympic sport at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.. As of 2016, women's teams from Europe, North America and Oceania won all five gold medals. [1]The United States is the most successful country in the women's Olympic water polo tournament, with three Olympic gold medals.
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