Water polo at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

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Tournament details
Host country France
CityParis
Venue(s)Paris Aquatics Centre
Paris La Défense Arena
Dates27 July – 10 August
Teams12 (from 4 confederations)
Competitors120
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The women's tournament of water polo at the 2024 Summer Olympics at Paris, France will be held from 27 July to 10 August 2024. It will be held at the Paris Aquatics Centre and Paris La Défense Arena.[1] It will be the seventh official appearance of the tournament.

Qualification


Qualification Date Host Berths Qualified team
Host country — 1  France
2023 World Aquatics Championships 16–28 July 2023 Japan Fukuoka 2  Netherlands
 Spain
2023 Oceanian Qualifier Series 11–12 August 2023 New Zealand Auckland 1  Australia
2022 Asian Games 25 September – 1 October 2023 China Hangzhou 1  China
2023 Pan American Games 30 October – 4 November 2023 Chile Santiago 1  United States
2024 European Championships 5–13 January 2024 Netherlands Eindhoven 1  Greece
2024 World Aquatics Championships 4–16 February 2024 Qatar Doha 2  Hungary
 Italy
2024 World Aquatics Championships – Africa 1  South Africa
2024 World Aquatics Championships – Reallocation 1  Canada[a]
Total 10
  1. ^ South Africa withdrew from the tournament after the 2024 World Aquatics Championships. Canada, as the best non-qualified team, took their spot.[2]

Competition format

The ten teams were seeded into two groups for a preliminary round. The teams in each group play a round-robin. The top four teams in each group advance to the knockout round while the fifth placed teams will be eliminated. The fifth placed teams will be ranked ninth and tenth based on win–loss record, then goal average. The knockout round will begin with quarterfinals and the winners advance to the semifinals, while the quarterfinal losers play in the fifth- to eighth- place classification. The two semifinal winners play in the gold medal match, while the two semifinal losers played in the bronze medal match.[3]

Schedule

The competition will begin on 27 July, and matches were held every other day. At each match time, two matches will be played simultaneously.[4]

Legend
G Group stage ¼ Quarterfinals ½ Semifinals B Bronze medal match F Gold medal match
Sat 27 Sun 28 Mon 29 Tue 30 Wed 31 Thu 1 Fri 2 Sat 3 Sun 4 Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10
G G G G G ¼ ½ B F

Draw

The draw took place on 17 February 2024 in Doha, Qatar.[5]

Seeding

The ten teams in the women's tournament were drawn into two groups of five teams. The teams were seeded into five pots.[6]

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4 Pot 5
 Netherlands
 Spain 		 Australia
 Greece 		 Hungary
 Italy 		 China
 United States 		 Canada
 France (hosts)

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos Team Pld W PSW PSL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Hungary 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Quarterfinals
2  Australia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3  Canada 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4  China 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5  Netherlands 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: 27 July 2024. Source:[citation needed]
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference.

Group B

Pos Team Pld W PSW PSL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  France (H) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Quarterfinals
2  Greece 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3  Italy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4  United States 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5  Spain 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: 27 July 2024. Source:[citation needed]
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference.
(H) Host

Knockout stage

Bracket

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsGold medal
 
          
 
6 August
 
 
 
 
8 August
 
 
 
 
 
6 August
 
 
 
 
 
10 August
 
 
 
 
 
6 August
 
 
 
 
 
8 August
 
 
 
 
 
6 August
 
 Bronze medal
 
 
 
10 August
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fifth place bracket
 
5–8th place semifinalsFifth place
 
      
 
8 August
 
 
 
 
10 August
 
 
 
 
 
8 August
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Seventh place
 
 
10 August
 
 
 
 
 
 

Final ranking

Rank Team
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

References

  1. ^ "Paris 2024 Olympic Competition Schedule by session" (PDF). 6 January 2023.
  2. ^ "In last-second reversal, Canada's women's water polo team qualifies for Olympics". cbc.ca. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
  3. ^ "FINA By-Laws, 2017–21" (PDF). FINA. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
  4. ^ "Water Polo at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games". nbcolympics.com. 29 August 2022. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  5. ^ "Paris 2024 Olympic Games Draw completed for the Men's and Women's Water Polo Tournaments in Doha". fina.org. FINA. 17 February 2024. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  6. ^ "Water Polo at the Paris 2024 Olympics – Qualified NOC Quota Positions". worldaquatics.com. 17 February 2024. Retrieved 17 February 2024.
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