Water polo at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Water polo at the 1964 Summer Olympics was held at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Shibuya, Tokyo. The gymnasium was built in 1961-1964 as the first indoor pool for Olympic water polo; it also hosted all swimming and diving events and could accommodate over 13,000 people.

Water polo at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Venues	Tokyo Metropolitan Indoor Swimming Pool
Date	11–18 October 1964
Competitors	137 from 13 nations
Medalists
Hungary  Yugoslavia  Soviet Union

Water polo at the 1964 Olympics on a stamp of Japan

In the water polo tournament, two teams from each of the four preliminary groups advanced to two semi-finals, and their four winners competed for the medals. The scores from preliminary rounds were taken into account in the semifinals, and the scores from the semifinals were taken into account in the finals.

Squads

Main article: Water polo at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads

Medal summary

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men’s tournament	Hungary Miklós Ambrus László Felkai János Konrád Zoltán Dömötör Tivadar Kanizsa Péter Rusorán György Kárpáti Mihály Mayer Dezső Gyarmati Dénes Pócsik András Bodnár	Yugoslavia Milan Muškatirović Ivo Trumbić Vinko Rosić Zlatko Šimenc Božidar Stanišić Ante Nardelli Zoran Janković Mirko Sandić Frane Nonković Ozren Bonačić Karlo Stipanić	Soviet Union Igor Grabovsky Vladimir Kuznetsov Boris Grishin Boris Popov Nikolay Kalashnikov Zenon Bortkevich Nikolay Kuznetsov Vladimir Semyonov Viktor Ageyev Leonid Osipov Eduard Egorov