Water polo at the 1908 Summer Olympics

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
Great Britain (GBR)  Belgium (BEL)  Sweden (SWE)

Official 1908 Highlight Film Water Polo @ 1:06

At the 1908 Summer Olympics, a water polo tournament was contested.

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

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's tournament	Great Britain	Belgium	Sweden

Team rosters

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

• Bouke Benenga
• Johan Cortlever
• Jan Hulswit
• Eduard Meijer
• Karel Meijer
• Piet Ooms
• Johan Rühl (goalkeeper)

Sweden

• Robert Andersson
• Erik Bergvall
• Pontus Hanson (captain)
• Harald Julin
• Torsten Kumfeldt
• Axel Runström
• Gunnar Wennerström

Results

Matches

First round

There was only one first round match scheduled. Great Britain, Sweden, and Austria (the last of which had withdrawn) were scheduled to have byes, while Belgium played the Netherlands.

	Belgium	8	-	1	Netherlands
	Feyaerts 6, Donners, Pletinckx	(3	-	1)	K. Meijer

Semifinals

Austria withdrew before the tournament started, leaving Great Britain with a second bye.

	Belgium	8	-	4	Sweden
	Grégoire 3, Meyboom 2, Pletinckx 2, Feyaerts	(4	-	2)	Hanson 3, Andersson

Final

Great Britain's first 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

Standings

Place	Team	Wins	Losses	Goals	Against
1	Great Britain	1	0	9	2
2	Belgium	2	1	18	14
3	Sweden	0	1	4	8
4	Netherlands	0	1	1	8

Statistics

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
	George Wilkinson	Great Britain	4
4	Charles Forsyth	Great Britain	3
	Pontus Hanson	Sweden	3
	Joseph Pletinckx	Belgium	3
7	Herman Meyboom	Belgium	2
	Paul Radmilovic	Great Britain	2
9	Robert Andersson	Sweden	1
	Herman Donners	Belgium	1
	Karel Meijer	Netherlands	1

References