| Men's water polo at the Games of the II Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | River Seine (near Asnières) | ||||||||||||
| Dates | August 11 (quarterfinals) August 12 (semifinals and final) | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 58 from 5 nations | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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A water polo tournament was held on the Seine (near Asnières) on 11 and 12 August 1900 as part of the 1900 Summer Olympics. Eight teams from four countries, all European, entered the event, although only seven ended up playing. The Osborne Swimming Club of Manchester, England, which has been listed with two rosters that are nearly entirely different, became the first Olympic water polo champions by defeating the Brussels Swimming and Water Polo Club of Belgium.[1] Third place went to the two French-based semi-finalists, Libellule de Paris and Pupilles de Neptune de Lille, the latter of whom entered two teams, but merged them together after the first round.
- ^ "HistoFINA – Water polo medalists and statistics" (PDF). fina.org. FINA. September 2019. p. 4. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.