Water polo at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

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Main article: Water polo at the 2020 Summer Olympics

The qualification for the 2020 men's Olympic water polo tournament allocated twelve teams quota spots: the hosts, the top team in the World League, the top two teams in the World Championships, five continental Olympic qualification tournament champions, and the three top teams at an Olympic qualifying tournament.[1]

Qualification summary

Event Dates Hosts Quota Qualifier(s)
Host nation — — 1  Japan
2019 FINA World League 18–23 June 2019 Serbia Belgrade 1  Serbia
2019 FINA World Championships 15–27 July 2019 South Korea Gwangju 2  Italy
 Spain
2019 Pan American Games 4–10 August 2019 Peru Lima 1  United States
Oceanian Continental Selection — — 1  Australia
African Continental Selection — — 1  South Africa
2020 European Championships 14–26 January 2020 Hungary Budapest 1  Hungary
2018 Asian Games[2][3] 25 August – 1 September 2018 Indonesia Jakarta 1  Kazakhstan
World Qualification Tournament 14–21 February 2021 Netherlands Rotterdam 3  Croatia
 Greece
 Montenegro
Total 12


2019 FINA World League

Main article: 2019 FINA Men's Water Polo World League

The best team in the 2019 World League qualified for the Olympics.

Rank Team
 Serbia
 Croatia
 Australia
4  Spain
5  Hungary
6  Japan
7  Kazakhstan
8  Canada

2019 World Championships

Main article: 2019 World Aquatics Championships

The top two teams in the 2019 World Championships qualified for the Olympics.

Rank Team
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Italy
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Spain
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Croatia
4  Hungary
5  Serbia
6  Australia
7  Greece
8  Germany
9  United States
10  Montenegro
11  Japan
12  South Africa
13  Brazil
14  Kazakhstan
15  South Korea
16  New Zealand

Continental tournaments

One team from each continental qualifying event qualifies for the Olympics.

Asia

Main article: 2020 Asian Water Polo Championship

Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, was supposed to host the Asian continental tournament from 12 to 16 February.[4] In late January the event was cancelled as the Kazakh Government suspended all flights and visas from China due to concerns about the coronavirus pandemic in the Eastern part of the country. In mid-February AASF decided to use the final ranking of 2018 Asian Games to allocate its continental quotas to the winners and the slots in WQT to the following teams in said ranking; the decision must yet be made official by FINA and IOC before the World Qualification Tournament, scheduled from 22 to 29 March.[5][6]

Europe

Main article: 2020 Men's European Water Polo Championship
Rank Team
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Hungary
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Spain
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Montenegro
4  Croatia
5  Serbia
6  Italy
7  Greece
8  Russia
9  Germany
10  Georgia
11  Romania
12  Turkey
13  France
14  Slovakia
15  Netherlands
16  Malta

Americas

Main article: Water polo at the 2019 Pan American Games – Men's tournament
Rank Team
1st place, gold medalist(s)  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Canada
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Brazil
4  Argentina
5  Cuba
6  Puerto Rico
7  Mexico
8  Peru

World Qualification Tournament

Main article: 2020 Men's Water Polo Olympic Qualification Tournament

The tournament was scheduled to be contested in Rotterdam, Netherlands, from 31 May to 7 June but was postponed to 14 to 21 February 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The draw of pools was held at FINA headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 11 February 2020. The top three teams qualified for the Olympics.[5] It than took place from 21 to 28 February 2021.

Participating teams

The draw took place on 11 February 2020 in Lausanne, Switzerland.[7]

Group A Group B
 Georgia
 Turkey
 Canada
 Brazil
 Montenegro
 Greece 		 Croatia
 Netherlands
 France
 Russia
 Germany
 Romania1

1 Argentina withdrew from the tournament in mid-February. FINA replaced the South-American team with Romania[6]

Final ranking

Qualified for the Summer Olympics
Rank Team[8]
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Montenegro
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Greece
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Croatia
4  Russia
5  Netherlands
6  France
7  Georgia
8  Canada
9  Romania
10  Brazil
11  Germany
DSQ  Turkey

See also

References

  1. ^ "Tokyo 2020 – FINA Water Polo Qualification System" (PDF). fina.org. FINA. 16 March 2018. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 March 2019. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  2. ^ Ivan Curcic (30 January 2020). "Problems on road to Tokyo: Kazakhstan refuses to host Asian Championships". total-waterpolo.com. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
  3. ^ Ivan Curcic (14 February 2020). "Asian Federation decides: Kazakhstan and China go to Tokyo". total-waterpolo.com. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  4. ^ Nurdana Adylkhanova (31 January 2020). "Kazakh capital to host Olympics water polo Asian pre-qualification tournament". astanatimes.com. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
  5. ^ a b Ivan Curcic (11 February 2020). "Draw for Olympic qualifications in Rotterdam and Trieste". total-waterpolo.com. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
  6. ^ a b Ivan Curcic (14 February 2020). "Asian Federation decides: Kazakhstan and China go to Tokyo". total-waterpolo.com. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
  7. ^ "Draw for the 2020 WP Olympic qualification tournaments". fina.org. FINA. 11 February 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  8. ^ Final ranking

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