Water polo at the 1900 Summer Olympics

Men's water polo
at the Games of the II Olympiad
VenueRiver Seine (near Asnières)
DatesAugust 11 (quarterfinals)
August 12 (semifinals and final)
Competitors58 from 5 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Osborne Swimming Club of Manchester
 Mixed team
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Brussels Swimming and Water Polo Club
 Belgium
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Libellule de Paris
 Mixed team
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Pupilles de Neptune de Lille
 France
1904 →

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.

  1. ^ "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.