Water polo at the 1970 Asian Games

Water polo was only contested for men at the 1970 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand.

Water polo at the 1970 Asian Games
Venue	Visutdrarom Swimming Pool
Dates	12–16 December 1970
Nations	7
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Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	Japan Hiroshi Hashimoto Tatsuo Jihira Shigeharu Kuwabara Hirokatsu Kuwayama Kaoru Matsunaga Naoto Minegishi Koji Nakano Hideo Nishida Yukiharu Oshita Toshio Takahashi Yoshihiro Yasumi	India Ashok Biswas Tarun Goswami Samir Kapadia Bharat Merchant Piyush Mitra Abdul Mutlib Pattabi Raman Chandram Rana Avinash Sarang Deep Narayan Singh Umad Singh	Indonesia Tengku Achmadsjah Doddy Agussalim Johanes Bambang Budihardja Tengku Kamrol Pandapotan Nasution Zakaria Nasution Gunawan Santoso Rudy Sastranegara Valentinus Sutandio Ade Sutargi Cebjar Hernowo Triono

Results

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	India	3	2	1	0	20	16	+4	5	Semifinals
2	Indonesia	3	2	0	1	20	14	+6	4
3	Singapore	3	1	1	1	22	13	+9	3
4	Thailand	3	0	0	3	4	23	−19	0

Source: Results

12 December	Singapore	7–7	India	Visutdrarom Swimming Pool, Bangkok

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12 December	Indonesia	8–1	Thailand	Visutdrarom Swimming Pool, Bangkok

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13 December	Singapore	4–6	Indonesia	Visutdrarom Swimming Pool, Bangkok

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13 December	Thailand	3–4	India	Visutdrarom Swimming Pool, Bangkok

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14 December	Indonesia	6–9	India	Visutdrarom Swimming Pool, Bangkok

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14 December	Singapore	11–0	Thailand	Visutdrarom Swimming Pool, Bangkok

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Japan	2	2	0	0	14	6	+8	4	Semifinals
2	Iran	2	0	1	1	5	8	−3	1[a]
3	Malaysia	2	0	1	1	5	10	−5	1[a]

Source: Results
Notes:

1. Head-to-head result: IRN 2–2 MAL. Overall goal difference was used as the tiebreaker.

12 December	Japan	6–3	Iran	Visutdrarom Swimming Pool, Bangkok

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13 December	Malaysia	2–2	Iran	Visutdrarom Swimming Pool, Bangkok

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14 December	Japan	8–3	Malaysia	Visutdrarom Swimming Pool, Bangkok

Final round

	Semifinals				Gold medal match
	15 December
	Japan	14
					16 December
	Indonesia	6
					Japan	4
	15 December
					India	2
	India	6
	Iran	3
					Bronze medal match
					16 December
					Indonesia	5
					Iran	2

Semifinals

15 December	Japan	14–6	Indonesia	Visutdrarom Swimming Pool, Bangkok

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15 December	India	6–3	Iran	Visutdrarom Swimming Pool, Bangkok

Bronze medal match

16 December	Indonesia	5–2	Iran	Visutdrarom Swimming Pool, Bangkok

Gold medal match

16 December	Japan	4–2	India	Visutdrarom Swimming Pool, Bangkok

References

• Results
• Asian Games water polo medalists^[usurped]