2012 Men's European Water Polo Championship Explained

The 2012 Men's European Water Polo Championship took place at the Pieter van den Hoogenband Swim Stadium in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, from 16 to 29 January 2012.

Road to the 2012 Olympics

The championships was part of the qualification procedure for the 2012 London Olympics that will take place in late July and early August of that year. There will be 12 men's teams in the Olympic competition.

By the time that these championships take place, four men's places have already been booked: the winner of the 2011 FINA Men's Water Polo World League in Italy (Serbia), and the three top-placed teams in the 2011 World Championships in Shanghai that did not win the World League (Italy, Croatia, Hungary).

As Great Britain men's team has been entered into the Olympic competition, there was not a direct entry to the Olympic tournament from the European Championships. Five teams will be entered into a world-wide qualifying competition from 1–8 April 2012 for men in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and from 15 to 22 April for women in Italy.^[1] Four teams from this competition qualified for the Olympic tournament.^[2]

Qualification

See main article: article and 2012 Men's European Water Polo Championship Qualifier.

12 teams were allowed to the tournament. The qualification was as follows:

• The host nation
• The best 5 teams from the 2010 European Championships not already qualified as the host nation
• 6 teams from the Qualifiers

Event	Date	Location	Vacancies	Qualified
Host nation	-	–	1
2010 European Championships	28 August–11 September 2010	Zagreb	5
Qualifiers	1 October 2010 – 1 August 2011	Various	6

Squads

See main article: article and 2012 Men's European Water Polo Championship squads.

Draw

The draw was held on 12 November 2011.^[3]

Groups

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Preliminary round

Group A

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Group B

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7th–12th Classification

Bracket

7th–12th places

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7th–10th places

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7th place

Final round

Bracket

Quarterfinals

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Semifinals

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Final

Final ranking

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Team roster: Slobodan Soro, Aleksa Šaponjić, Živko Gocić, Vanja Udovičić, Miloš Ćuk, Duško Pijetlović, Slobodan Nikić, Milan Aleksić, Nikola Rađen, Filip Filipović, Andrija Prlainović, Stefan Mitrović, and Branislav Mitrović Head coach: Dejan Udovičić

External links

• • LEN website

Notes and References

1. Web site: FINA Selects Catania, Casablanca as Future Host Cities; Creates Open Water "School for Officials" . 1 February 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120829144529/http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/25929.asp?q=FINA-Selects-Catania,-Casablanca-as-Future-Host-Cities;-Creates-Open-Water-%22School-for-Officials%22 . 29 August 2012 . dead .
2. http://corporate.olympics.com.au/files/79/FINA_WaterPolo_November2010.pdf Qualification system
3. Web site: Draw – European Water Polo Championships – Eindhoven 2012. 12 November 2011. len.eu. 30 December 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20120121044509/http://www.len.eu/cms?disciplines+waterpolo+pr+a=0087. 21 January 2012. dead.