Water polo at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Water polo
at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
VenueRaleigh Runnels Memorial Pool
Dates1–10 August 1984
Competitors153 from 12 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Yugoslavia
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  West Germany
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The water polo tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics was held from 1 to 10 August 1984, at the Raleigh Runnels Memorial Pool in Malibu, California.[1] The tournament featured 12 teams, playing two rounds of round-robin play: preliminaries and finals.[2][3]

Water polo was one of the four aquatic sports held at the 1984 Games, along with swimming, diving, and synchronized swimming, which was held for the first time.

  1. ^ Official Report of the Games of the XXIIIrd Olympiad Los Angeles 1984 Volume 2: Competition Summary and results (note: this file is 50.8MB). Originally published in print form by the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee in 1985; digitally published by the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles in 1998, retrieved 15 March 2012.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ "Water Polo at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2019.