Men’s Olympic Water Polo Tournament

The Men’s Water Polo Tournament at the Paris 2024 Olympics will feature 12 countries and 144 water polo players, plus one reserve player for each team roster. Team player rosters are confirmed by the country’s respective National Olympic Committee and National Federation.

 

The 6,000-seat Olympic Aquatics Centre will host the Preliminaries Phase matches from 27 July to 4 August. The tournament will continue at the Paris La Defense Arena for the Finals Phase from 5-11 August.

Hungary | Group B

Hungary qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympics by winning the men’s water polo tournament at the World Aquatics Championships – Fukuoka 2023. The historical gold standard in the sport, Hungary is a nine-time winner of the Men’s Olympic Water Polo Tournament and four-time World Champions.

HUNGARY | TEAM ROSTER
Gergo Zalanki
Daniel Angyal
Mark Attila Banyai
Gergo Janos Fekete
Balazs Harai
Szilard Jansik
Krisztian Manhercz
Erik Molnar
Adam Nagy
Marton Vamos
Denes Varga
Vince Pal Vigvari
Soma Vogel

 

Greece | Group A

Greece qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympics by finishing second in the men’s water polo tournament at the World Aquatics Championships – Fukuoka 2023. Greece won silver at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

GREECE | TEAM ROSTER
Stylianos Argyropoulos Kanakakis
Ioannis Fountoulis
Konstantinos Genidounias
Nikolaos Gkillas
Konstantinos Kakaris
Efstathios Kalogeropoulos
Dimitrios Nikolaidis
Alexandros Papanastasiou
Nikolaos Spyridon Papanikolaou
Dimitrios Skoumpakis
Panagiotis Tzortzatos
Angelos Vlachopoulos
Emmanouil Zerdevas

 

 

Croatia | Group A

Croatia qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympics by being the highest-ranked, not-yet-qualified country from the World Aquatics Championships – Doha 2024. Croatia last won Olympic gold in men’s water polo at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Croatia comes in as the defending World Champions, a title they've earned three times.

CROATIA | TEAM ROSTER
Marko Bijac
Matias Biljaka
Luka Bukic
Rino Buric
Loren Fatovic
Maro Jokovic
Konstantin Kharkov
Luka Loncar
Jerko Marinic Kragic
Toni Popadic
Josip Vrlic
Ante Vukicevic
Marko Zuvela

 

 

Spain | Group B

Spain qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympics through the continental qualification position of Europe. A three-time world champion in men’s water polo, Spain won Olympic gold at the Atlanta 1996 and placed fourth at Tokyo 2020.

SPAIN | TEAM ROSTER
Unai Aguirre
Unai Biel Lara
Alejandro Bustos Sanchez
Sergi Cabanas Pegado
Miguel De Toro Dominguez
Martin Famera
Alvaro Granados Ortega
Marc Larumbe Gonfaus
Eduardo Lorrio
Alberto Munarriz Egana
Felipe Perrone Rocha
Bernat Sanahuja
Roger Tahull Compte

 

Australia | Group B

Australia qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympics through the continental qualification position for Oceania. Australia placed fifth in the Men’s Olympic Water Polo Tournaments at the Barcelona 1992 and the Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games.

AUSTRALIA | TEAM ROSTER
Marcus Berehulak
Matthew Byrnes
Blake Edwards
Lachlan Edwards
John Hedges
Angus Lambie
Milos Maksimovic
Jacob Mercep
Charlie Negus
Luke Pavillard
Chaz Poot
Nic Porter
Nathan Power

 

United States of America | Group A

The United States qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympics through the continental qualification position for the Americas. Team USA has won silver in men’s water polo at three editions of the Olympic Games: Beijing 2008, Seoul 1998, and Los Angeles 1984. Team USA also has three bronze medals from the Olympic Games in Munich 1972, Los Angeles 1932 and Paris 1924. 

UNITED STATES | TEAM ROSTER
Alex Bowen
Luca Cupido
Hannes Daube
Chase William Dodd
Ryder Dodd
Ben Hallock
Drew Holland
Johnny Hooper
Max Irving
Alex Obert
Marko Vavic
Adrian Weinberg
Dylan Woodhead

 

 

Japan | Group B

Japan qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympics through the continental qualification position for Asia. Japan’s best-ever finish in the Men’s Olympic Water Polo Tournament was fourth at the Los Angeles 1932 Games. At Tokyo 2020, Japan finished 10th.

JAPAN | TEAM ROSTER
Seiya Adachi
Kenta Araki
Kiyomu Date
Yusuke Inaba
Kai Takeshi Inoue
Towa Nishimura
Ikkei Nitta
Daichi Ogihara
Keigo Okawa
Toi Suzuki
Mitsuru Takata
Katsuyuki Tanamura
Taiyo Watanabe

 

Romania  | Group A

As the highest-ranked country from the continent of Africa did not take their NOC quota position, Romania – the next-highest-ranked country from the World Aquatics Championships - Doha 2024 not-yet-qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympics – earned this quota position. Romania has finished in the top-five in men’s water polo at the Olympics on three occasions: fourth at Montreal 1976, fifth at Tokyo 1964, and fifth at Rome 1960.

ROMANIA | TEAM ROSTER
Silvian Colodrovschi
Eduard Dragusin
Tudor-Andrei Fulea
Vlad-Luca Georgescu
Francesco Iudean
Matei Lutescu
Andrei Neamtu
Nicolae Oanta
Sebastian Stefan Oltean
Andrei Prioteasa
Andrei Tepelus
Marius-Florin Tic
Levente Vancsik

 

Italy | Group A

Italy qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympics through the World Aquatics Championships – Doha 2024 Men’s Water Polo Tournament by being the second highest-ranked, not-yet-qualified country. Italy has won the Men’s Olympic Water Polo Tournament three times, in Barcelona 1992,  Rome 1960 and London 1948.

ITALY | TEAM ROSTER
Lorenzo Bruni
Francesco Condemi
Marco Del Lungo
Francesco Di Fulvio
Edoardo Di Somma
Gonzalo Echenique
Andrea Fondelli
Tommaso Gianazza
Matteo Iocchi Gratta
Gianmarco Nicosia
Nicholas Presciutti
Vincenzo Renzuto Iodice
Alessandro Velotto

 

Serbia | Group B

Serbia qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympics through the World Aquatics Championships – Doha 2024 Men’s Water Polo Tournament by being the third highest-ranked, not-yet-qualified country. Serbia comes in as the two-time defending Olympic champion in men’s water polo.

SERBIA | TEAM ROSTER
Milos Cuk
Nikola Dedovic
Radomir Drasovic
Radoslav Filipovic
Nikola Jaksic
Petar Jaksic
Dusan Mandic
Vladimir Misovic
Sava Randelovic
Strahinja Rasovic
Viktor Rasovic
Nemanja Ubovic
Nemanja Vico

 

Montenegro | Group A

Montenegro qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympics through the World Aquatics Championships – Doha 2024 Men’s Water Polo Tournament by being the fourth-highest-ranked, not-yet-qualified country. Montenegro has finished fourth at three consecutive Olympic Games: Beijing 2008, London 2012, and Rio 2016. Montenegro was eighth at Tokyo 2020. 

MONTENEGRO | TEAM ROSTER
Bogdan Durdic
Dejan Lazovic
Aljosa Macic
Dusan Matkovic
Marko Mrsic
Miroslav Perkovic
Vlado Popadic
Duro Radovic
Vasilije Radovic
Vladan Spaic
Petar Tesanovic
Stefan Vidovic
Jovan Vujovic

 

France | Group B

France obtained the automatic quota place for the Paris 2024 Olympics as the host country. France won gold in men's water polo the last time Paris held the Olympic Games in 1924. France also clinched bronze at the Amsterdam 1928 and Paris 1900 Olympics. France last played at the Rio 2016 Olympics, finishing 11th. 

FRANCE | TEAM ROSTER
Emil Bjorch
Michael Alexandre Bodegas
Alexandre Bouet
Ugo Crousillat
Clement Dubois
Hugo Fontani
Enzo Khasz
Romain Marion Vernoux
Mehdi Marzouki
Enzo Nardon
Remi Saudadier
Pierre-Frederic Vanpeperstraete
Thomas Vernoux

Olympic History of Water Polo

Water polo is one of the oldest team sports in the modern-era Olympic Games programme. Water polo made its debut at the Paris 1900 Olympics alongside another team sport: rugby. The first two water polo tournaments at the Olympic Games were played between clubs. From 1908 onwards, the Olympic water polo tournament has been between countries. At the Sydney 2000 Olympics, the women’s water polo tournament was added to the Olympic Games programme.    

About the Paris 2024 Olympic Qualification Pathway for Water Polo

World Aquatics worked closely with the IOC Sports Department and the leadership of the World Aquatics Water Polo Technical Committee, and also consulted with its National Member Federations, to develop qualification principles for the water polo events at the Paris 2024 Olympics.

The Aquatics Olympics Qualification Principles for the Paris 2024 Games were published on 18 June 2022. For these principles, please refer to the following link: Aquatics Olympic Qualification System Principles.

Following the conclusion of the water polo tournaments for men and women at the World Aquatics Championships – Doha 2024, the Olympic qualification pathway for both genders for the water polo programme at the Paris 2024 Olympics was finalised. Following this, World Aquatics published Water Polo at the Paris 2024 Olympics | Qualified NOC Quota Positions on 17 February 2024.

About World Aquatics 

Driven by the vision of a world united by water for health, life and sport, World Aquatics is the international governing body for aquatic sports. Founded in 1908, World Aquatics is an independent organisation of 210 National Federations and five Continental Organisations.  

World Aquatics oversees six aquatic sports – swimming, water polo, diving, artistic swimming, open water swimming, and high diving – and is recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the leading global authority on these sports.