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By Dan D’Addona After winning the European and world championships, Serbia’s men’s water polo team finally etched itself into Olympic history, winning the country’s first gold medal on Saturday at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Serbia defeated the defending Olympic champion Croatia team 11-7 to cap a s...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor BUDAPEST, Hungary. On a positively brilliant night in Budapest, an almost indescribable program of water polo took place at the Alfred Hajos Pool. In front of an adoring crowd of over 7,000 fans, the Hungarian men’s team suffocated a frustrated Greek t...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor What a difference a year—or a decade—makes. When the U.S. Men’s Senior National Team was last in Budapest for the 2017 FINA World Water Polo Championships, they were soundly beaten by a Croatian squad that went on to claim the title of “World Champions...

Niksa Dobud, a member of the Croation Water Polo National Team, has been suspended for four years for an attempt to evade a FINA drug test. Dobud's official suspension will run from April 13, 2015 to April 12, 2019. This suspension comes on the heels of another four-year suspension by FINA regarding...

By Dan D'Addona The U.S. men's water polo team's chance of advancing to the quarterfinals at the 2016 Rio Olympics was all but excluded when an exclusion penalty decided its match against Montenegro. Early in the fourth quarter, Alex Roelse was ejected for a match exclusion and Montenegro took full ...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor As I wend my way across the Atlantic by air returning to Brooklyn, it seemed appropriate to wrap up my experience of Budapest and the 2017 FINA World Water Polo Championships. First, my congratulations to the winners—Croatia for the men and USA for the...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor BROOKLYN, NY. After a respite to take in all that I experienced in Berlin at the FINA Men’s World Water Polo Cup 2018—and to finish transcribing an interview with Andrey Kryukov, Bureau Liaison for FINA’s Technical Water Polo Committee—here’s a stab at...

BUDAPEST, Hungary. After a positively unbelievable, uplifting and frankly exhausting evening of water polo at the Alfréd Hajós Swimming Complex, it seemed ideal to start piecing together some of the pieces of what is both an intricate puzzle as well as a concrete reality: Croatia has beaten its arch...

By Dan D’Addona The Croatia men’s water polo team got an offensive boost and is one win away from claiming two consecutive gold medals. Meanwhile, Serbia overcame a horrendous start to the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, especially shocking as the pre-tournament favorite — and is stunningly headed to the fi...

Commentary by Dan D'Addona The oldest team sport in the Olympics could be headed for its most competitive tournament yet. Men's water polo has been dominated by a handful of teams since its inception in the 1900 Olympics with Hungary claiming nine golds, three silvers and three bronze medals in the ...

At its meeting in Amsterdam, the LEN Bureau allocated the 2022 edition of the European Water Polo Championships for the city of Split (Croatia). The Bureau approved the dates of several 2019 LEN events including the Champions Cup in artistic swimming which serves as an Olympic qualification meet. Th...

Croatian water polo player Ante Vukicevic has tested positive for COVID-19, leading to an early interruption of a national team camp last week. Vukicevic, per reports, was not part of the camp that took place Aug. 10-15 in Korcula. But he had contact with athletes taking part in the camp prior, and ...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor BUDAPEST, Hungary. It was a tough World Cup in Budapest for the world’s greatest water polo player. Filip Filipovic, Swimming World’s 2016 men’s water polo player of the year, was very frustrated by the officiating at the 2017 FINA World Championships....

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Correspondent There’s no question that the FINA World Championship final between Croatia and Hungary, won 8-6 by the Croatians Saturday night at the Alfréd Hajós Swimming Complex, will be remembered for the Hungarians dramatic run to the title match, the Croatian’...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor BERLIN, Germany. At Europasportpark a burgeoning dream of German polo success took a major hit Saturday with a shootout loss to Australia. The 11-10 defeat—decided by 3-2 in penalty shots—ended Germany's thrilling run towards the title match of the FIN...

Retirement of Andro Buslje Continues Generational Change for Croatia Men’s Water Polo Croatia men’s water polo captain Andro Buslje has announced his international retirement, one of several key veterans to end their international careers after the Tokyo Olympics. Vice-captain Maro Jokovic and cente...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor The recent FINA Men’s Water Polo World Cup 2018, held two weeks ago in Berlin, saw the much-anticipated introduction of rule changes, some minor, some radical, in matches involving players from senior national men’s teams. Applying the new rules in mea...

The European water polo teams met last night on Tuesday March 20 for their fifth round game of the FINA Men's Water Polo World League 2018. Playing at home in Podgorica, Montenegro beat Serbia 11-8, leading right from the start of the game but letting the Serbians come back in the last two quarters ...

By Dan D’Addona The Australian men’s water polo team needed a win and needed some help to reach the quarterfinals at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. The Aussies got the first in the final round of group play and are moving on. Australia defeated Greece 12-7 to reach the first part of the equation. The n...

By Dan D’Addona The Croatia men’s water polo team took a huge step toward repeating as Olympic gold medalists on Tuesday. The 2012 Olympic champions defeated host Brazil 10-6 in the quarterfinals at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, and their former coach. The Croatia defense shut down Brazil and goalie M...