Water polo at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place at the Olympic Aquatic Centre where women competed for only the second time in the event at the Summer Olympics.

Twelve teams battled it out for the gold medal in the men's event, where Russia was trying to avenge their defeat by Hungary at the Sydney Olympics. There were eight teams in the women's event where holders Australia were hoping to retain the title.

Men's Teams
Group A: Croatia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro and United States.
Group B: Australia, Egypt, Germany, Greece, Italy and Spain

Women's Teams
Group A: Australia, Greece, Italy and Kazakhstan.
Group B: Canada, Hungary, Russia and United States.

Medal Winners

Men, Women

Men's

Hungary Tibor Benedek Peter Biros Rajmund Fodor Istvan Gergely Tamas Kasas Gergely Kiss Norbert Madaras Tamas Molnar Adam Steinmetz Barnabas Steinmetz Zoltan Szecsi Tamas Varga Attila Vari	Serbia and Montenegro Aleksandar Ciric Vladimir Gojkovic Danilo Ikodinovic Viktor Jelenic Predrag Jokic Nikola Kuljaca Slobodan Nikic Aleksandar Sapic Dejan Savic Denis Sefik Petar Trbojevic Vanja Udovicic Vladimir Vujasinovic	Russia Roman Balashov Revaz Chomakhidze Alexander Eryshov Alexander Fedorov Sergey Garbuzov Dmitry Gorshkov Nikolay Kozlov Nikolay Maksimov Andrey Rekechinsky Dmitry Stratan Vitaly Yurchik Marat Zakirov Irek Zinnurov

Prelimary round

Group A	Pld.	Win	Loss	Tie	GF	GA	Points
Hungary	5	5	0	0	44	27	10
Serbia and Montenegro	5	4	1	0	37	26	8
Russia	5	3	2	0	32	28	6
United States	5	2	3	0	32	37	4
Croatia	5	1	4	0	35	41	2
Kazakhstan	5	0	5	0	21	42	0

August 15

• United States def. Croatia (7-6)
• Hungary def. Serbia and Montenegro (6-4)
• Russia def. Kazakhstan (5-2)

17 August

• United States def. Kazakhstan (9-6)
• Serbia and Montenegro def. Russia (4-3)
• Hungary def. Croatia (10-8)

19 August

• Serbia and Montenegro def. Kazakhstan (9-5)
• Hungary def. United States (7-5)
• Croatia def. Russia (9-8)

21 August

• Hungary def. Kazakhstan (14-4)
• Serbia and Montenegro def. Croatia (11-8)
• Russia def. United States (9-7)

23 August

• Croatia def. Kazakhstan (5-4)
• Hungary def. Russia (7-6)
• Serbia and Montenegro def. United States (9-4)

Group B	Pld.	Win	Loss	Tie	GF	GA	Points
Greece	5	4	1	0	43	27	8
Germany	5	3	1	1	40	28	7
Spain	5	3	2	0	35	31	6
Italy	5	3	2	0	39	24	6
Australia	5	1	3	1	37	35	3
Egypt	5	0	5	0	18	67	0

August 15

• Australia def. Egypt (14-3)
• Germany def. Greece (5-4)
• Spain def. Italy (5-4)

August 17

• Italy def. Australia (8-4)
• Germany def. Egypt (13-3)
• Greece def. Spain (8-5)

August 19

• Spain def. Australia (8-4)
• Germany def. Italy (5-10)
• Greece def. Egypt (15-4)

August 21

• Italy def. Egypt (13-4)
• Germany def. Spain (11-5)
• Greece def. Australia (10-9)

August 23

• Australia ties Germany (6-6)
• Spain def. Egypt (12-4)
• Greece def. Italy (6-4)

Quarter-finals

August 25

• Russia def. Germany (12-5)
• Serbia and Montenegro def. Spain (7-5)

Classification 7th-12th

August 25

• Australia def. Kazakhstan (10-5)
• Croatia def. Egypt (12-1)

Semifinals

August 27

• Hungary def. Russia (7-5)
• Serbia and Montenegro def. Greece (7-3)

Classification 7th-10th

August 27

• United States def. Australia (6-5)
• Italy def. Croatia (11-7)

Classification 11th-12th

August 27

• Kazakhstan def. Egypt (15-7)

9th place match

August 29

• Australia def. Croatia (8-7)

7th place match

August 29

• United States def. Italy (9-8)

5th place match

August 29

• Germany def. Spain (6-4)

3rd place match

August 29

• Russia def. Greece (6-5)

Finals

August 29

• Hungary def. Serbia and Montenegro (8-7)

Women's

Italy Francesca Conti Martina Miceli Carmela Allucci Silvia Bosurgi Elena Gigli Manuela Zanchi Tania Di Mario Cinzia Ragusa Giusy Malato Alexandra Araujo Maddalena Musumeci Melania Grego Noemi Toth	Greece Georgia Ellinaki Dimitra Asilian Antiopi Melidoni Angeliki Karapataki Kyriaki Liosi Stavroula Kozompoli Aikaterini Oikonomopoulou Antigoni Roumpesi Evangelia Moraitidou Eftychia Karagianni Georgia Lara Antonia Moraiti Anthoula Mylonaki	United States Jacqueline Frank Heather Petri Ericka Lorenz Brenda Villa Ellen Estes Natalie Golda Margaret Dingeldein Kelly Rulon Heather Moody Robin Beauregard Amber Stachowski Nicolle Payne Thalia Munro

Round 1

Group A	Win	Loss	Tie	GF	GA	Points
Australia	2	0	1	22	16	5
Italy	2	1	0	20	14	4
Greece	1	1	1	17	20	3
Kazakhstan	0	3	0	16	25	0

August 16

• Australia def. Italy (6 - 5)
• Greece def. Kazakhstan (8 - 6)

August 18

• Australia def. Kazakhstan (9 - 4)
• Italy def. Greece (7 - 2)

August 20

• ITaly def. Kazakhstan (8 - 6)
• Greece ties. Australia (7 - 7)

Group B	Win	Loss	Tie	GF	GA	Points
United States	2	1	0	20	16	4
Russia	2	1	0	21	22	4
Hungary	1	2	0	19	20	2
Canada	1	2	0	16	18	2

August 16

• United States def. Hungary (7 - 6)
• Russia def. Canada (8 - 6)

August 18

• Canada def. United States (6 - 5)
• Russia def. Hungary (9 - 8)

August 20

• United States def. Russia (8 - 4)
• Hungary def. Canada (5 - 4)

Quarter-finals August 22

• Greece def. Russia (7 - 4)
• Italy def. Hungary (8 - 5)
• Canada def. Kaz (10 - 4) (Classification 7-8)

Semi-finals August 24

• Italy def. United States (6 - 5)
• Greece def. Australia (6 - 2)
• Russia def. Hungary (12 - 11) (Classification 5-6)

Finals August 26

• Italy def.Greece (10-9)
• United States def. Australia (6-5) (Bronze medal game)

Teams

Men's Teams

Men's Team Australia

• Pietro Figlioli , Trent Franklin , Toby Jenkins , Craig Miller , Sam McGegor , Timothy Neesham , Aleksandr Osadchuk , Dean Semmens , James Stanton , Rafael Sterk , Nathan Thomas , Thomas Whalan , Gavin Woods
• Head Coach: Erkin Shagaev

Men's Team Croatia

• Samir Barac , Damir Buric , Elvis Fatovic , Nikola Frankovic , Igor Hinic , Vjekoslav Kobescak , Danijel Premus , Dubravko Simenc , Mile Smodlaka , Ratko Stritof , Frano Vican , Goran Volarevic , Tihomil Vranjes .

• Head Coach: Zoran Roje

Men's Team Egypt

• Ragy Abdel Hady , Karim Abdelmohsen , Mahmoud Ahmed , Ahmed Badr , Shady El Helw , Omar El Sammany , Mohamed Gamaleldin , Sherif Khalil , Bassel Mashhour , Mohamed Mekkawi , Amr Mohamed , Walid Rezk , Hassan Sultan
• Head Coach: Adel Shamala

Men's Team Germany

• Steffen Dierolf , Lukasz Kieloch , Tobias Kreuzmann , Soeren Mackeben , Heiko Nossek , Jens Pohlmann , Marc Politze , Thomas Schertwitis , Fabian Schroedter , Alexander Tchigir , Patrick Weissinger , Tim Wollthan , Michael Zellmer .
• Head Coach: Hagen Stamm

Men's Team Greece

• Christos Afroudakis , Georgios Afroudakis , Theodoros Chatzitheodorou , Nikolaos Deligiannis , Theodoros Kalakonas , Konstantinos Loudis , Dimitrios Mazis , Georgios Reppas , Stefanos Santa , Anastasios Schizas , Argyris Theodoropoulos , Ioannis Thomakos , Antonios Vlontakis
• Head Coach: Alessandro Campagna

Men's Team Hungary

• Tibor Benedek , Peter Biros , Rajmund Fodor , Istvan Gergely , Tamas Kasas , Gergely Kiss , Norbert Madaras , Tamas Molnar , Adam Steinmetz , Barnabas Steinmetz , Zoltan Szecsi , Tamas Varga , Attila Vari
• Head Coach: Denes Kemeny

Men's Team Italy

• Alberto Angelini , Fabio Bencivenga , Leonardo Binchi , Fabrizio Buonocore , Alessandro Calcaterra , Roberto Calcaterra , Maurizio Felugo , Goran Fiorentini , Marco Gerini , Francesco Postiglione , Bogdan Rath , Carlo Silipo , Stefano Tempesti
• Head Coach: Paolo de Crescenzo

Men's Team Kazakhstan

• Daniyar Abulgazin , Sergey Drozdov , Alexandr Elke , Alexandr Gaidukov , Sergey Gorovoy , Alexandr Polukhin , Artemiy Sevostyanov , Alexandr Shidlovskiy , Alexandr Shvedov , Yuriy Smolovyy , Igor Zagoruiko , Ivan Zaitsev , Yevgeniy Zhilyayev
• Head Coach: Askar Orazalinov

Men's Team Russia

• Roman Balashov , Revaz Chomakhidze , Alexander Eryshov , Alexander Fedorov , Sergey Garbuzov , Dmitry Gorshkov , Nikolay Kozlov , Nikolay Maksimov , Andrey Rekechinsky , Dmitry Stratan , Vitaly Yurchik , Marat Zakirov , Irek Zinnurov
• Head Coach: Alexander Kabanov

Men's Team Spain

• Angel Andreo , Daniel Ballart , Javier Garcia , Salvador Gomez , Gabriel Hernandez , Gustavo Marcos , Guillermo Molina , Daniel Moro , Ivan Moro , Sergi Pedrerol , Ivan Perez , Jesus Rollan , Javier Sanchez Toril
• Head Coach: Joan Jane

Men's Team Serbia and Montenegro

• Aleksandar Ciric , Vladimir Gojkovic , Danilo Ikodinovic , Viktor Jelenic , Predrag Jokic , Nikola Kuljaca , Slobodan Nikic , Aleksandar Sapic , Dejan Savic , Denis Sefik , Petar Trbojevic , Vanja Udovicic , Vladimir Vujasinovic
• Head Coach: Nenad Manojlovic

Men's Team United States of America

• Omar Amr , Tony Azevedo, Ryan Baile , Layne Beaubien , Brandon Brooks , Genai Kerr , Daniel Klatt , Brett Ormsby , Jeffrey Powers , Christopher Segesman , Jesse Smith , Wolfgang Wigo , Adam Wright
• Head Coach: Ratko Rudic

Women's Teams

Women's Team Australia

• Belinda Brooks , Naomi Castle , Nikita Cuffe , Joanne Fox , Jemma Gbrownlow , Kate Gynther , Kelly Heuchan , Emma Knox , Elise Norwood , Melissa Rippon , Rebecca Rippon , Bronwyn Smith , Jodie Stuhmcke
• Head Coach: Istvan Gorgenyi

Women's Team Canada

• Marie Luc Arpin, Johanne Begin, Cora Campbell, Melissa Collins, Andrea Dewar, Valerie Dionne, Ann Dow, Susan Gardiner, Marianne Illing, Whynter Lamarre, Rachel Riddell, Christine Robinson, Jana Salat
• Head Coach: Patrick Oaten

Women's Team Greece

• Dimitra Asilian , Georgia Ellinaki , Eftychia Karagianni , Angeliki Karapataki , Stavroula Kozompoli , Georgia Lara , Kyriaki Liosi , Antiopi Melidoni , Antonia Moraiti , Evangelia Moraitidou , Anthoula Mylonaki , Aikaterini Oikonomopoulou , Antigoni Roumpesi
• Head Coach:Kyriakos Iosifidis

Women's Team Hungary

• Rita Dravucz , Anett Gyore , Dora Kisteleki , Aniko Pelle , Agnes Primasz , Mercedes Stieber , Krisztina Szremko , Zsuzsanna Tiba , Andrea Toth , Agnes Valkay , Erzsebet Valkay , Krisztina Zantleitner , Ildiko Zirighne Sos
• Head Coach: Tamas Farago

Women's Team Italy

• Carmela Allucci , Alexandra Araujo , Silvia Bosurgi , Francesca Conti , Tania di MARIO , Elena Gigli , Melania Grego , Martina Miceli , Giusy Malato , Maddalena Musumeci , Cinzia Ragusa , Noemi Toth , Manuela Zanchi
• Head Coach: Pierluigi Formiconi

Women's Team Kazakhstan

• Yekaterina Gariyeva , Marina Gritsenko , Tatyana Gubina , Natalya Ignatyeva , Assel Jakayeva , Svetlana Khapsalis , Alyona Klimenko , Svetlana Koroleva , Natalya Krassilnikova , Larissa Mikhailova , Galina Rytova , Irina Tolkunova , Anna Zubkova
• Head Coach: Stanislav Pivovarov

Women's Team Russia

• Svetlana Bogdanova , Sofya Konukh , Tatiana Petrova , Ekaterina Salimova , Natalia Shepelina , Ekaterina Shishova , Elena Smurova , Olga Turova , Ekaterina Vasilieva , Valentina Vorontsova , Maria Yaina , Galina Zlotnikova , Anastassia Zoubkova
• Head Coach: Alexander Kleymenov

Women's Team United States of America

• Robin Beauregard , Margaret Dingeldein , Ellen Estes , Jacqueline Frank , Natalie Golda , Ericka Lorenz , Heather Moody , Thalia Munro , Nicolle Payne , Heather Petri , Kelly Rulon , Amber Stachowski , Brenda Villa
• Head Coach: Guy Baker

Match Schedule

BBC match schedule