Water polo at the 2010 Asian Games

Water polo at the 2010 Asian Games was held in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China from November 13 to 25, 2010. In this tournament, nine teams played in the men's competition, while the women's tournament made their first participation with four teams.

Water polo at the 2010 Asian Games
Venue	Tianhe Natatorium
Dates	15–25 November 2010
Competitors	168 from 11 nations
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Schedule

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Round

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Last round

P

Preliminary round

¼

Quarterfinals

½

Semifinals

F

Finals

Event↓/Date →	15th Mon	16th Tue	17th Wed	18th Thu	19th Fri	20th Sat	21st Sun	22nd Mon	23rd Tue	24th Wed	25th Thu
Men				P	P	P	P	P	¼	½	F
Women	●	●	●

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	Kazakhstan Alexandr Shvedov Sergey Gubarev Alexandr Gaidukov Murat Shakenov Alexey Panfili Roman Pilipenko Alexandr Axenov Rustam Ukumanov Yevgeniy Zhilyayev Mikhail Ruday Ravil Manafov Azamat Zhulumbetov Nikolay Maximov	China Ge Weiqing Tan Feihu Liang Zhongxing Yu Lijun Guo Junliang Pan Ning Li Bin Wang Yang Xie Junmin Wang Beiming Han Zhidong Jiang Bin Huang Meicai	Japan Katsuyuki Tanamura Mitsuaki Shiga Kan Irei Koji Takei Kan Aoyagi Hiroki Wakamatsu Yusuke Shimizu Akira Yanase Koji Kobayashi Yoshinori Shiota Atsushi Naganuma Satoshi Nagata Shota Hazui
Women details	China Yang Jun Teng Fei Liu Ping Sun Yujun He Jin Sun Yating Song Donglun Zhang Weiwei Wang Yi Ma Huanhuan Sun Huizi Zhang Lei Wang Ying	Kazakhstan Galina Rytova Natalya Shepelina Kamila Zakirova Anna Turova Liliya Falaleyeva Anna Zubkova Zamira Myrzabekova Yekaterina Gariyeva Aizhan Akilbayeva Marina Gritsenko Yelena Chebotova Assem Mussarova Alexandra Turova	Uzbekistan Anastasiya Skovpina Diana Dadabaeva Aleksandra Sarancha Eseniya Piftor Evgeniya Ivanova Natalya Plyusova Anna Shcheglova Ramilya Khalikova Adelina Zinurova Olga Mayorova Anna Plyusova Elena Dukhanova

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	1	1	0	2
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	1	0	2
3	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
	Uzbekistan (UZB)	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 entries)		2	2	2	6

Draw

The draw ceremony for the team sports was held on 7 October 2010 at Guangzhou. The men were drawn into two groups of five teams, and the women played in round robin format.^[1] The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 2009 Asian Championships.^[2]

Group A  China (Host)  Japan (3)  Qatar  South Korea  Hong Kong

Group B  Kazakhstan (2) Athletes from Kuwait (4)  Singapore  Iran*  Saudi Arabia

* Iran withdrew shortly after the draw.

Final standing

Men

Further information: Water polo at the 2010 Asian Games – Men's tournament

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L
	Kazakhstan	6	6	0	0
	China	7	6	0	1
	Japan	7	5	0	2
4	South Korea	7	3	0	4
5	Athletes from Kuwait	6	3	1	2
6	Singapore	6	2	1	3
7	Saudi Arabia	6	1	0	5
8	Hong Kong	7	1	0	6
9	Qatar	4	0	0	4

Women

Further information: Water polo at the 2010 Asian Games – Women's tournament

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L
	China	3	3	0	0
	Kazakhstan	3	2	0	1
	Uzbekistan	3	1	0	2
4	India	3	0	0	3