# Water polo at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Final results for the water polo tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

## Qualification

| Event | Dates | Hosts | Quotas | Qualified Teams |
| Host Nation | 15 June 1955 | Paris | 1 | Italy |
| 1956 Summer Olympics | 28 November - 7 December 1956 | Melbourne | 6 | Hungary  Yugoslavia  Soviet Union  United States  United Team of Germany (EUA)  Romania |
| Oceania Qualifier | 24 February 1960 | Melbourne | 1 | Australia |
| European & Middle East Qualifier | 18 June 1960 | Zagreb | 1 | United Arab Republic |
| European & Middle East Qualifier | 25-26 June 1960 | Groningen | 1 | Belgium |
| European & Middle East Qualifier | 26 June 1960 | Camogli | 1 | France |
| American Qualifier | | | 2 | Brazil |
| American Qualifier | | | 2 | Argentina |
| Asian Qualifier | | | 1 | Japan |
| African Qualifier | | | 1 | South Africa |
| Wild Card | | | 1 | Netherlands |
| Total | | | 16 | |

## Medal summary

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Italy Amedeo Ambron Danio Bardi Giuseppe D'Altrui Salvatore Gionta Giancarlo Guerrini Franco Lavoratori Gianni Lonzi Luigi Mannelli Rosario Parmegiani Eraldo Pizzo Dante Rossi Brunello Spinelli | Soviet Union Viktor Ageev Givi Chikvanaia Leri Gogoladze Boris Goykhman Yury Grigorovsky Anatoly Kartashov Vyacheslav Kurennoy P'et're Mshveniyeradze Vladimir Novikov Yevgeny Saltsyn Vladimir Semyonov | Hungary András Bodnár Ottó Boros Zoltán Dömötör László Felkai Dezső Gyarmati István Hevesi László Jeney Tivadar Kanizsa György Kárpáti András Katona János Konrád Kálmán Markovits Mihály Mayer Péter Rusorán |

## Participating nations

For the team rosters see: Water polo at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads.
* Argentina (7)
* Australia (10)
* Belgium (7)
* Brazil (9)
* France (11)
* United Team of Germany (9)
* Hungary (14)
* Italy (12)
* Japan (7)
* Netherlands (9)
* Romania (7)
* South Africa (9)
* Soviet Union (11)
* United Arab Republic (10)
* United States (11)
* Yugoslavia (11)

## Results
### Group A

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Italy | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 8 | +13 | 6 |
| Romania | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 5 | +7 | 4 |
| Japan | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 15 | −10 | 1 |
| Egypt | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 17 | −10 | 1 |

### Group B

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Soviet Union | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 10 | +10 | 6 |
| United Team of Germany (EUA) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 9 | +6 | 4 |
| Argentina | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 14 | −7 | 1 |
| Brazil | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 16 | −9 | 1 |

### Group C

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Yugoslavia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 4 | +11 | 6 |
| Netherlands | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 8 | +1 | 3 |
| South Africa | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 12 | −5 | 3 |
| Australia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 14 | −7 | 0 |

### Group D

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Hungary | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 9 | +18 | 6 |
| United States | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 13 | +4 | 4 |
| France | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 23 | −13 | 2 |
| Belgium | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 17 | −9 | 0 |

## Semi-finals
### Group A

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Italy | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 3 | +6 | 6 |
| Soviet Union | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 4 |
| Romania | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 10 | −2 | 1 |
| United Team of Germany (EUA) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 11 | −4 | 1 |

### Group B

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Yugoslavia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 4 | +6 | 6 |
| Hungary | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 5 | +6 | 4 |
| United States | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 19 | −8 | 2 |
| Netherlands | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 12 | −4 | 0 |

## Final round

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Italy | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | +3 | 5 |
| Soviet Union | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 8 | −1 | 3 |
| Hungary | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 8 | −1 | 2 |
| Yugoslavia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | −1 | 2 |

## Final standings

| Place | Nation |
| 1 | Italy (ITA) |
| 2 | Soviet Union (URS) |
| 3 | Hungary (HUN) |
| 4 | Yugoslavia (YUG) |
| 5 | Romania (ROU) |
| 6 | United Team of Germany (EUA) |
| 7 | United States (USA) |
| 8 | Netherlands (NED) |
| 9 | South Africa (RSA) |
| 10 | France (FRA) |
| 11 | Argentina (ARG) |
| 12 | Brazil (BRA) |
| 13 | United Arab Republic (UAR) |
| 14 | Japan (JPN) |
| 15 | Australia (AUS) |
| 16 | Belgium (BEL) |