Water polo at the 1908 Summer Olympics
| Men's water polo at the Games of the IV Olympiad
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| Dates | July 15 (quarterfinal) July 20 (semifinal) July 22 (final) |
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| Competitors | 28 from 4 nations | |||||||||
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 Great Britain (GBR)
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 Belgium (BEL)
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 Sweden (SWE)
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At the 1908 Summer Olympics, a water polo tournament was contested.
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 Great Britain, Sweden, and Austria (the last of which had withdrawn) were scheduled to have byes, while Belgium played the Netherlands.
Austria withdrew before the tournament started, leaving Great Britain with a second bye.
Great Britain's first match was against Belgium, who had already won two games in the tournament.
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.
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