Men's water polo at the Olympics was firstly included in the sports category in 1900 sports. For Women’s water polo a protest in Australia was done and as a result, Women’s water polo for the first time in 2000 Sydney olympics Games was included. Such protests were rewarded when Australia won the gold medal match against the United States with a "buzzer-beater" last-minute goal, taken from outside the seven meter line.
Manuel Estiarte from Spain, played six Olympics and led scoring for four of them, which is a record. Another Dezso Gyarmati of Hungary won water polo medals at five successive Olympic Games (gold 1952, 1956, 1964; silver 1948; bronze 1960), a record in water polo.
The other great player,
Tamas Farago of Hungry led the team to Olympic Medals in 1972, 1976 and 1980. And in 1984, 1988, an American Terry Schroeder led the US to its first Olympic silver medals
1956 Summer Olympics is famous, forever match ever been played so for, it was a semi-final between Hungary and the Soviet Union. As the athletes left for the games, the Hungarian revolution began, and the Soviet army crushed the uprising. Many of the Hungarian athletes vowed never to return home, and felt their only means of fighting back was by victory in the pool. The confrontation was the most bloody and violent water polo game in history, in which the pool reputedly turned red from blood. The Hungarians defeated the Soviets 4-0 before the game was called off in the final minute to prevent angry Hungarians in the crowd reacting to Valentin Prokopov punching Ervin Zador's eye open.Finally The Hungrians won the victory in semi final and, in final with Yugoslavia 2-1, and got the Olympic gold medal.
The Water Polo tournament at the 2012 Olympics in London is scheduled to be held at the London 2012 Water Polo Arena in the Olympic Park from 29 July to 12 August. The venue will hold 5,000 spectators during water polo matches. Twelve teams will compete in the men's tournament and eight teams in the women's tournament. Olympic Water Polo Tickets are available at Sport Ticket Exchange at reasonable prices. SportTicketExchange.com is an excellent place for Olympic fans to buy or sell Olympic Tickets especially Water Polo Tickets.
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