Water polo at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

The men's tournament of water polo at the 2012 Summer Olympics at London, Great Britain, began on 29 July and lasted until 12 August 2012. All games were held at the Water Polo Arena.

Teams from twelve nations competed in the tournament and were seeded into two groups for the preliminary round. A total of 42 games were played, 30 of them in the preliminary round.

Format
The format of water polo at the 2012 Summer Olympics:
 * Twelve teams were divided into two preliminary groups, composed of six teams each, and played a single round robin in each group.
 * The top 4 teams from each group played against each other in a cross-group format in the Quarterfinals.
 * Winners from the Quarterfinal progressed to the Semifinals and played against another winner from the Quarterfinal round. Losers went on to play classification games.
 * Winners of the Semifinals contested the gold medal game and the losers the bronze medal game.

Group A
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Medal round

 * Bracket

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Semi-finals
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Bronze medal match
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Gold medal match
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Classification

 * Bracket

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7th–8th place match
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5th–6th place match
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Multi-time Olympians
Five-time Olympian(s): 3 players
 * : Igor Hinić
 * : Georgios Afroudakis
 * : Tamás Kásás

Four-time Olympian(s): 14 players
 * : Thomas Whalan, Gavin Woods
 * : Samir Barać, Frano Vićan (GK)
 * : Theodoros Chatzitheodorou, Nikolaos Deligiannis (GK)
 * : Péter Biros, Gergely Kiss, Zoltán Szécsi (GK)
 * : Stefano Tempesti (GK)
 * : Nikolay Maksimov (GK)
 * : Iván Pérez
 * : Tony Azevedo, Ryan Bailey

Multiple medalists
Three-time Olympic medalist(s): 5 players
 * : Péter Biros, Tamás Kásás, Gergely Kiss, Zoltán Szécsi (GK)
 * : Vanja Udovičić

Leading goalscorers
Source: Official Results Book (page 466)

Leading goalkeepers
Source: Official Results Book (page 462)

Leading sprinters
Source: Official Results Book (page 465)

Awards
The men's all-star team was announced on 12 August 2012.


 * Most Valuable Player
 *  Josip Pavić (85 saves)


 * Media All-Star Team
 * Goalkeeper
 * Josip Pavić (85 saves)
 * Field players
 * Nikša Dobud (centre forward, 12 goals)
 * 🇮🇹 Maurizio Felugo (12 goals)
 * 🇷🇸 Filip Filipović (left-handed, 18 goals, 2 sprints won)
 * 🇲🇪 Aleksandar Ivović (centre back, 19 goals)
 * 🇪🇸 Felipe Perrone (16 goals)
 * 🇷🇸 Andrija Prlainović (22 goals)