Water polo at the 2010 Asian Games
# 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, 9 teams played in the men's competition, while the woman's tournament made their first participation with 4 teams.

## Schedule

| ● | Round | ● | 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 |
| 1 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | Uzbekistan (UZB) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (4 entries) | 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, the women were played in round robin format. The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 2009 Asian Championships.

* Iran withdrew shortly after the draw.

## Final standing

### Men

| 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

| 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 |
