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1989 Campeonato de España de Waterpolo Femenino

The 1989 Campeonato de España de waterpolo femenino was the second edition of RFEN's premier championship for women's water polo clubs.

Ana Vasconcelos

Ana Carolina Vasconcelos (born November 7, 1981 in Brasília, DF) is a female water polo player from Brazil, who won the bronze medal with the Brazil women's national water polo team at the 2003 Pan American Games.

CARIFTA Swimming Championships

Musician Sean Paul participated in the 1989 and 1991 editions of the championships, as part of the Jamaican water polo team.

Charles E. Smith Center

The Charles E. Smith Center is a 5,000-seat multipurpose arena in the United States' capital, Washington, D.C. It is home to the George Washington University Colonials men's and women's basketball teams, as well as the university's swimming, water polo, gymnastics, and volleyball teams.

Frits Ruimschotel

Albert Frits Ruimschotel (February 28, 1922 in Pangkal Pinang, Dutch East Indies – May 28, 1987 in Utrecht) was a Dutch water polo player who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Georgia Tech Campus Recreation Center

The Aquatic Center cost $16,800,000, and featured competitions in swimming, synchronized swimming, diving, water polo, and the swimming segment of the modern pentathlon competition.

Heliopolis Sporting Club

The activities of the club included water polo, swimming, diving, squash, tennis, golf, cricket, hokey, bridge, bowling, soccer, handball, basketball, Volleyball, Speed ball, Ballet, Gymnastics, Snooker, Athletics and different kinds of dancing.

Hughie Ferguson

Ferguson's son Jack later went on to represent Britain in water polo at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics.

Jason Queally

Born at Great Heywood, Staffordshire, Queally attended Lancaster Royal Grammar School, where he was part of the swimming squad in the mid-1980s, later representing Lancaster and British Universities in water polo while a student at Lancaster University, where he earned a BSc in Biological Science.

Kevin Robertson

Kevin George Robertson (born February 8, 1959 in Biloxi, Mississippi) is a former water polo player from the United States, who won two Olympic silver medals during his career: in 1984 and 1988.

Kiril Tenekedjiev

He was a member of the Bulgarian National Team in Water Polo (youth team), and was trained by Ivan Popov, one of the best coaches in water polo in Bulgaria.

Les Hall

In addition to working as a session and touring musician, he composed the score for the Hungarian documentary Freedom's Fury, about the country's Olympic water polo team during the Revolution of 1956, which was narrated by Mark Spitz and executive produced by Quentin Tarantino and Lucy Liu.

Melania Grego

Melania Grego (born June 19, 1973 in Breno) is a female water polo forward from Italy, who won the gold medal with the Women's National Team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

Noémi Tóth

Noémi Tóth (born June 7, 1976 in Szentes, Hungary) is a female water polo defender from Italy, who won the gold medal with the Women's National Team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

Piscines Bernat Picornell

It hosted the swimming events, synchronized swimming events, the water polo final, and the swimming part of the modern pentathlon event for the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Ru den Hamer

Rudolf "Ru" den Hamer (July 24, 1917 in Buitenzorg, Dutch East Indies – March 14, 1988 in The Hague) was a Dutch water polo player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Water polo at the 2011 Pan American Games – Men's tournament

The men's tournament of water polo at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico will take place from October 23 to October 29, when the United States defeated Canada 7–3 for the gold medal.

Water polo at the 2011 Pan American Games – Women's tournament

The women's tournament of water polo at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico will take place from October 23 to October 28, when the United States defeated Canada 27–26 in a penalty shootout for the gold medal.

Wolf Wigo

Wolf Wigo (born May 8, 1973 in Abington, PA) is a renowned American water polo player and coach.


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2005 Summer Universiade

İzmir University Sport Complex: Wrestling, Taekwondo, Fencing, Water Polo

2007 World Aquatics Championships

The competition took place at three locations in central Melbourne: the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre (diving and water polo), St Kilda Beach (open water), and Rod Laver Arena in a temporary pool christened the Susie O'Neill Pool (synchro and swimming).

2012 FINA Women's Water Polo World League

The two teams that reach the final of the Super Final will be the first teams to quality for the water polo tournament of the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona.

2021 World Aquatics Championships

Two of the competition venues will be located in Margaret Island: a brand-new indoor swimming pool complex for swimming, diving and synchronized swimming, and the existing Alfred Hajós sports pool for water polo.

Aleksandr Kabanov

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Kabanov (born 1948), Soviet and Russian water polo player and coach who won the Olympic gold twice

Anikó Pelle

Because of water polo's increased popularity globally, the influence of international coaches like USC's Jovan Vavic (of the former Yugoslavia) and Canadian Michel Roy at Hawaii, and the perks of attending an American college, international players are attracted to the premier US colleges.

Anto Vasović

Anto Vasović is the son of the Serbian water polo player Jugoslav Vasović.

Blood in the Water

Blood in the Water match, a water polo match between Hungary and the USSR in 1956

Boin

Victor Boin (1886–1974), Belgian freestyle swimmer, water polo player, and épée fencer

Brenda Villa

In 2005, Villa became assistant coach of the women's water polo team at Cerritos College in Norwalk, California.

Club Gimnasia y Esgrima de Rosario

The water polo of Gimnasia y Esgrima has been widely praised by the media, with some players taking part of Argentina national team, such as Fernando Losada and Aimetta who played in the 1971 Pan American Games held in Cali.

Daniel Klatt

Klatt learned to swim aged 3, from his father, Richard Klatt, an experienced swimming and water polo coach and a former top-level swimmer.

European Water Polo Championship

The water polo tournament was part of the European Aquatics Championships up to and including 1997, and from 1999 the event was separated and got its own independent tournament.

Frank McGill

He played college football at McGill University, where he also starred at hockey, water polo and swimming.

Fred van Dorp

His elder brother, Tony van Dorp, was also a water polo player, who participated in the 1964 and 1968 Olympics for the United States, and played against his brother.

George Mavrotas

He is, jointly with Spaniard Chiqui Sans, the sixth water polo player to compete at five Olympics, after Briton Paul Radmilovic, Brazilian João Gonçalves Filho, Hungarian Dezső Gyarmati, Italian Gianni De Magistris, and fellow Spaniard Manuel Estiarte.

Gianni De Magistris

He is the fourth water polo player to compete at five Olympics, after Briton Paul Radmilovic, Brazilian João Gonçalves Filho, and Hungarian Dezső Gyarmati.

Gote

Göte Andersson, a Swedish water polo player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Heather Petri

In 1997 she was recruited by UC Berkeley coach Maureen O'Toole, and played collegiate water polo from 1997-2001.

Hebner

Harry Hebner (1891–1968), American backstroke and freestyle swimmer as well as a water polo player, who competed in the 1908, 1912 and 1920 Summer Olympics

Italy men's national water polo team

Although a domestic league was soon established, the Italian national water polo team did not first compete at the Olympic Games until the 1920 Olympics, in Antwerp, Belgium, where they were forced to forfeit their first round match, before losing 5–1 to Greece and being eliminated.

Ivković

Vladimir Ivković (born 1929), Croat water polo player who competed for Yugoslavia in the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics

Kačić

Hrvoje Kačić (born 1932), former Croatian water polo player, academician and politician

Kōji Kikkawa

Kōji was supposed to represent Japan in water polo in the coming Olympics but chose to be a singer.

Leandro Machado

For the Brazilian water polo player with the same name see Leandro Ruiz Machado

Manojlović

Nenad Manojlović (born 1957), Yugoslav and Serbian former water polo player and manager

Peter J. Cutino Award

Former major league baseball commissioner and US Olympic Committee chair Peter Ueberroth, himself once a water polo player at San Jose State, presented the first awards on January 22, 2000.

Polymath

Howard Baker – "Similar claims to the title of sporting polymath could be made for Howard Baker" (who won high jump titles, and played cricket, football, and water polo).

R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital

Dr. Suhash Chatterjee: Member of Indian National Water polo Team which participated in 1948 Summer Olympics held in London

Radio Jadran

The founders of radio Jadran are Montenegrin water polo players Boris Zloković and Predrag Jokić

Rainer Osselmann

His father, Friedhelm Osselmann, played water polo for West Germany at the 1956 and 1960 Olympics, whereas his mother, Birgit Klomp, competed in swimming at the 1956 Games.

Rajmund

Rajmund Fodor (born 1976), Hungarian water polo player, who played on the gold medal squads at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics

Rebecca Rippon

In 2007, she played club water polo in Greece for Vouliagmeni Nautical Club and for the Balmain Tigers in the National Water Polo League.

Reyburn

Amedee Reyburn (1879–1920), American freestyle swimmer and water polo player who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics

Ryan Sandes

Sandes attended the South African College Schools (S.A.C.S.) where he took part in cricket, rugby and water polo.

Stanley Harris

Stan Harris (1894-1973), all-round sportsman, in rugby union, water polo, tennis and boxing

Tony van Dorp

His younger brother, Fred van Dorp, was also a water polo player, who participated in the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics for the Netherlands, and played against his brother.

Tyler Newton

Newton attended John Burroughs High School in Burbank, California, where he lettered in volleyball and water polo while earning a scholastic achievement award.

During his high school years at John Burroughs High School, Newton was a letterwinner in basketball, water polo, and swimming.

Újpest

Olivér Halassy (1909–1946), water polo player and freestyle swimmer.

Vodafone Hungary

In October 2007, Vodafone signed a sponsorship contract with the Hungarian Water Polo Association and Tamás Kásás.

Windber, Pennsylvania

Johnny Weissmuller, winner in the 1920s of five Olympic gold medals in swimming and one bronze medal in water polo, and later was a Hollywood star best known for his Tarzan movies, particularly with actress Maureen O'Sullivan, lived in Windber as a child.