Water_polo_at_the_1908_Summer_Olympics
Quick Facts Men's water polo at the Games of the IV Olympiad, Dates ...
| Men's water polo at the Games of the IV Olympiad | ||||||||||
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| Dates | July 15 (quarterfinal) July 20 (semifinal) July 22 (final) | |||||||||
| Competitors | 28 from 4 nations | |||||||||
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At the 1908 Summer Olympics, a water polo tournament was contested.[1][2]
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| Position | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 |  Great Britain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 |  Belgium | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 |  Sweden | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| — |  Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Belgium
- Victor Boin
- Herman Donners
- Fernand Feyaerts (captain)
- Oscar Grégoire
- Herman Meyboom
- Albert Michant (goalkeeper)
- Joseph Pletinckx
Great Britain
- George Cornet
- Charles Forsyth
- George Nevinson
- Paul Radmilovic
- Charles Sydney Smith (goalkeeper, captain)
- Thomas Thould
- George Wilkinson
Netherlands
Sweden
Matches
First round
There was only one first round match, between Belgium and the Netherlands.
Great Britain, Sweden, and Austria had byes, but Austria withdrew after the draw.
| Belgium | 8 | - | 1 | Netherlands | ||
| Feyaerts 6, Donners, Pletinckx |
(3 | - | 1) | K. Meijer | ||
Semi-finals
As Austria had withdrawn, Great Britain had a walkover to the final, with Belgium playing Sweden to determine their opponent.
| Belgium | 8 | - | 4 | Sweden | ||
| Grégoire 3, Meyboom 2, Pletinckx 2, Feyaerts |
(4 | - | 2) | Hanson 3, Andersson | ||
Final
Great Britain's first and only match was against Belgium, who had already won two games in the tournament.
| Belgium | 2 | - | 9 | Great Britain | ||
| Feyaerts, Grégoire | (2 | - | 5) | Wilkinson 4, Forsyth 3, Radmilovic 2 | ||
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| Place | Team | Played | Wins | Losses | Draws | Goals | Against | Diff. | Points |
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| 1 | Great Britain | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | + 7 | 2 |
| 2 | Belgium | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 14 | + 4 | 4 |
| 3 | Sweden | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 8 | - 4 | 0 |
| 4 | Netherlands | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | - 7 | 0 |
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Scoring
11 players scored during the three games of the tournament, including 5 of Belgium's poloists. The Belgian captain's 8 goals led the field, and he also gained the distinctions of having scored in each of the three games as well as the single-game high goal count at 6.
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- "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.
- "Water Polo at the 1908 London Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
- PDF documents in the LA84 Foundation Digital Library:
- Official Report of the 1908 Olympic Games (download, archive) (pp. 359–361)
- Water polo on the Olympedia website
- Water polo on the Sports Reference website
- Water polo at the 1908 Summer Games (men's tournament) (archived)