Water polo at the 1908 Summer Olympics

Men's water polo
at the Games of the IV Olympiad
Men's water polo; at the Games of the IV Olympiad
Dates	July 15 (quarterfinal) ; July 20 (semifinal) ; July 22 (final)
Competitors	28 from 4 nations
Medalists
	← 1904 1912 →

At the 1908 Summer Olympics, a water polo tournament was contested.^[1]^[2]

Medal table

Position	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain	1	0	0	1
2	Belgium	0	1	0	1
3	Sweden	0	0	1	1

—	Netherlands	0	0	0	0

Medal summary

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Great Britain (GBR)^[1] George Cornet Charles Forsyth George Nevinson Paul Radmilovic Charles Smith Thomas Thould George Wilkinson	Belgium (BEL) Victor Boin Herman Donners Fernand Feyaerts Oscar Grégoire Herman Meyboom Albert Michant Joseph Pletinckx	Sweden (SWE) Robert Andersson Erik Bergvall Pontus Hanson Harald Julin Torsten Kumfeldt Axel Runström Gunnar Wennerström

Team rosters

Belgium

Great Britain

George Cornet
Charles Forsyth
George Nevinson
Paul Radmilovic
Charles Sydney Smith (goalkeeper, captain)
Thomas Thould
George Wilkinson

Netherlands

Sweden

Results

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As Austria had withdrawn, Great Britain had a walkover to the final, with Belgium playing Sweden to determine their opponent.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

Ranking and statistics

Place	Team	Played	Wins	Draws	Goals	Against	Diff.	Points
1	Great Britain	1	1	0	9	2	+ 7	2
2	Belgium	3	2	1	18	14	+ 4	4
3	Sweden	1	0	1	4	8	- 4	0
4	Netherlands	1	0	1	1	8	- 7	0

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.

Place	Name	Nation	Goals
1	Fernand Feyaerts	Belgium	8
2	Oscar Grégoire	Belgium	4
2	George Wilkinson	Great Britain	4
4	Charles Forsyth	Great Britain	3
	Pontus Hanson	Sweden	3
	Joseph Pletinckx	Belgium	3
7	Herman Meyboom	Belgium	2
7	Paul Radmilovic	Great Britain	2
9	Robert Andersson	Sweden	1
	Herman Donners	Belgium	1
	Karel Meijer	Netherlands	1

References

^ ^a ^b "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.

Sources

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 at the 1908 Summer Olympics (men's tournament)
Water polo on the Sports Reference website
- Water polo at the 1908 Summer Games (men's tournament) (archived)

[HistoFINA_PDF-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.

[SR-2] "Water Polo at the 1908 London Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 16 November 2019.

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