Water polo at the 2018 Asian Games – Men

Men
at the 2018 Asian Games
Men ; at the 2018 Asian Games
Venue	Gelora Bung Karno Aquatic Stadium
Date	25 August – 1 September 2018
Competitors	117 from 9 nations
Medalists
	Kazakhstan
	Japan
	Iran
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The men's tournament of Water polo at the 2018 Asian Games at Jakarta, Indonesia, was held from 25 August to 1 September at the Gelora Bung Karno Aquatic Stadium.^[1]

Squads

China	Hong Kong	Indonesia	Iran
Wu Honghui Liu Xiao Peng Jiahao Chu Chenghao Sha Shi Xie Zekai Chen Zhongxian Chen Rui Chen Yimin Chen Jinghao Zhang Chufeng Zhu Gelin Liang Zhiwei	Yim Wai Ho Wong Siu Hei Fung Kong Chun Fung Kong Ching Kelvin Lo Ip Chun Hong Gilman Choi Cheng Hei Man Pin Tak Hei Cheung Tsun Yu Chan Chun Leung Cheng Hei Chun Kong Cheuk Kiu	Mochammad Rafi Alfariz Beby Willy Eka Paksi Tarigan Muhammad Hamid Firdaus Silvester Goldberg Manik Erlangga Andaru Rinaldi Andi Muhammad Uwayzulqarni Yusuf Budiman Reza Aditya Putra Delvin Felliciano Ridjkie Mulia Harahap Rian Rinaldo Zaenal Arifin Novian Dwi Putra	Omid Lotfpour Peyman Asadi Amir Hossein Rahbar Hamed Malek-Khanbanan Amir Hossein Keyhani Ali Pirouzkhah Amir Dehdari Mehdi Yazdankhah Soheil Rostamian Mohammad Javad Abbasi Arshia Almasi Hossein Khaledi Shayan Ghasemi
Japan	Kazakhstan	Saudi Arabia	Singapore
Katsuyuki Tanamura Seiya Adachi Harukiirario Koppu Mitsuaki Shiga Takuma Yoshida Atsuto Iida Takumu Miyazawa Mitsuru Takata Atsushi Arai Yusuke Inaba Keigo Okawa Kenta Araki Tomoyoshi Fukushima	Pavel Lipilin Yevgeniy Medvedev Ruslan Akhmetov Roman Pilipenko Miras Aubakirov Alexey Shmider Murat Shakenov Altay Altayev Rustam Ukumanov Mikhail Ruday Ravil Manafov Yulian Verdesh Valeriy Shlemov	Hussain Jazani Mohammed Al-Hilal Mohammed Gahal Saeed Taleb Naif Al-Muntashiri Ayman Al-Aryani Ahmed Al-Shammari Khaled Al-Harbi Hamed Al-Nefaiei Bader Al-Dughather Adel Al-Malki Mohammed Al-Khawfi Omar Sharahili	Darren Lee Loh Zhi Zhi Ooi Yee Jia Chow Jing Lun Glen Lim Samuel Yu Chiam Kun Yang Ang An Jun Yu Junjie Sean Ang Lee Cheng Kang Koh Jian Ying Lee Kai Yang
South Korea
Lee Seung-hun Park Jeong-min Yoo Byeong-jin Lee Seon-uk Youn Young-gwan Choi Jin-jae Kim Dong-hyeok Kim Moon-soo Chu Min-jong Han Hyo-min Gwon Dae-yong Lee Seong-gyu Jung Byeong-young

Results

All times are Western Indonesia Time (UTC+07:00)

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Kazakhstan	3	3	0	40	18	+22	6	Quarterfinals
2	Iran	3	2	1	32	25	+7	4
3	South Korea	3	1	2	30	39	−9	2
4	Singapore	3	0	3	16	36	−20	0

Source: OCA

25 August 9:00	South Korea	9–16	Kazakhstan	Gelora Bung Karno Aquatic Stadium, Jakarta Referees: Ni (CHN), Tahara (JPN)
	Score by quarters: 1–5, 1–5, 3–3, 4–3
	Kim D.H. 3	Goals	Ruday 3

25 August 10:20	Singapore	5–11	Iran	Gelora Bung Karno Aquatic Stadium, Jakarta Referees: Stavridis (GRE), Štampalija (CRO)
	Score by quarters: 3–4, 0–3, 2–3, 0–1
	Koh J.Y. 3	Goals	Yazdankhah, Abbasi 3

26 August 17:10	Iran	16–11	South Korea	Gelora Bung Karno Aquatic Stadium, Jakarta Referees: Alexandrescu (ROU), Stavridis (GRE)
	Score by quarters: 5–3, 7–4, 1–2, 3–2
	Malek-Khanbanan, Almasi 3	Goals	Youn Y.G., Lee S.G. 3

27 August 14:30	Kazakhstan	15–4	Singapore	Gelora Bung Karno Aquatic Stadium, Jakarta Referees: Ni (CHN), Safabakhsh (IRI)
	Score by quarters: 4–0, 5–1, 4–2, 2–1
	Ukumanov 5	Goals	four players 1

28 August 17:10	Kazakhstan	9–5	Iran	Gelora Bung Karno Aquatic Stadium, Jakarta Referees: Štampalija (CRO), Stavridis (GRE)
	Score by quarters: 2–1, 2–1, 3–2, 2–1
	Ukumanov 3	Goals	Pirouzkhah 2

29 August 14:30	Singapore	7–10	South Korea	Gelora Bung Karno Aquatic Stadium, Jakarta Referees: Štampalija (CRO), Tahara (JPN)
	Score by quarters: 1–2, 1–4, 2–2, 3–2
	Koh J.Y. 2	Goals	Chu M.J. 3

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Japan	4	4	0	0	79	15	+64	8	Quarterfinals
2	China	4	3	0	1	63	22	+41	6
3	Saudi Arabia	4	1	1	2	33	55	−22	3^[a]
4	Indonesia	4	1	1	2	32	63	−31	3^[a]
5	Hong Kong	4	0	0	4	17	69	−52	0

Source: OCA
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Head-to-head result: KSA 12–12 INA. Goal difference against the highest placed team (JPN): KSA −16, INA −17.

25 August 15:00	Saudi Arabia	12–12	Indonesia	Gelora Bung Karno Aquatic Stadium, Jakarta Referees: Safabakhsh (IRI), Flahive (AUS)
	Score by quarters: 1–3, 4–4, 3–4, 4–1
	Al-Dughather 6	Goals	Harahap 4

25 August 16:20	Japan	12–4	China	Gelora Bung Karno Aquatic Stadium, Jakarta Referees: Stavridis (GRE), Alexandrescu (ROU)
	Score by quarters: 2–1, 4–0, 3–1, 3–2
	Adachi 3	Goals	four players 1

26 August 14:30	Indonesia	2–19	China	Gelora Bung Karno Aquatic Stadium, Jakarta Referees: Tan (SGP), Flahive (AUS)
	Score by quarters: 0–4, 0–6, 0–4, 2–5
	Firdaus, Manik 1	Goals	Chen Z.X. 5

26 August 15:50	Saudi Arabia	12–6	Hong Kong	Gelora Bung Karno Aquatic Stadium, Jakarta Referees: Han (KOR), Salnichenko (KAZ)
	Score by quarters: 2–1, 4–1, 4–2, 2–2
	Al-Nefaiei 3	Goals	Cheng H.M. 3

27 August 15:50	China	23–3	Hong Kong	Gelora Bung Karno Aquatic Stadium, Jakarta Referees: Flahive (AUS), Pranolo (INA)
	Score by quarters: 7–0, 6–2, 5–0, 5–1
	four players 3	Goals	Cheng H.M. 3

27 August 17:10	Indonesia	7–24	Japan	Gelora Bung Karno Aquatic Stadium, Jakarta Referees: Jiathornwattana (THA), Štampalija (CRO)
	Score by quarters: 3–9, 1–8, 2–4, 1–3
	Harahap 4	Goals	Inaba 7

28 August 14:30	Hong Kong	0–23	Japan	Gelora Bung Karno Aquatic Stadium, Jakarta Referees: Tan (SGP), Han (KOR)
	Score by quarters: 0–7, 0–6, 0–5, 0–5
	0	Goals	Adachi 5

28 August 15:50	China	17–5	Saudi Arabia	Gelora Bung Karno Aquatic Stadium, Jakarta Referees: Safabakhsh (IRI), Salnichenko (KAZ)
	Score by quarters: 4–0, 2–1, 6–1, 5–3
	Liu X., Sha S., Zhang C.F. 3	Goals	Al-Dughather, Al-Malki 2

29 August 15:50	Japan	20–4	Saudi Arabia	Gelora Bung Karno Aquatic Stadium, Jakarta Referees: Ni (CHN), Jiathornwattana (THA)
	Score by quarters: 4–1, 5–1, 6–0, 5–2
	Adachi 5	Goals	Al-Dughather 2

29 August 17:10	Hong Kong	8–11	Indonesia	Gelora Bung Karno Aquatic Stadium, Jakarta Referees: Stavridis (GRE), Alexandrescu (ROU)
	Score by quarters: 0–3, 3–3, 2–3, 3–2
	Fung K.Chu., Chan C.L. 3	Goals	Harahap 5

Final round

Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Gold medal match

30 August

Iran	15
		31 August
Saudi Arabia	7
		Iran	7
30 August
		Japan	18
Singapore	6
				1 September
Japan	28
				Japan	7
30 August
				Kazakhstan	8
South Korea	4
		31 August
China	12
		China	8
30 August
		Kazakhstan	9	Bronze medal match
Kazakhstan	20
				1 September
Indonesia	4
				Iran (p)	8 (8)

				China	8 (7)

Classification 5–8		Classification 5–6

31 August

Saudi Arabia	5
		1 September
Singapore	6
		Singapore	8 (2)
31 August
		South Korea (p)	8 (4)
South Korea	15

Indonesia	7
		Classification 7–8

		1 September

		Saudi Arabia	12

		Indonesia	8

Quarterfinals

30 August 9:00	Iran	15–7	Saudi Arabia	Gelora Bung Karno Aquatic Stadium, Jakarta Referees: Alexandrescu (ROU), Štampalija (CRO)
	Score by quarters: 2–1, 4–1, 5–3, 4–2
	Malek-Khanbanan 4	Goals	Al-Dughather 3

30 August 10:20	South Korea	4–12	China	Gelora Bung Karno Aquatic Stadium, Jakarta Referees: Flahive (AUS), Safabakhsh (IRI)
	Score by quarters: 1–3, 1–2, 1–5, 1–2
	Chu M.J. 2	Goals	Chen Z.X. 4

30 August 16:30	Kazakhstan	20–4	Indonesia	Gelora Bung Karno Aquatic Stadium, Jakarta Referees: Tan (SGP), Tahara (JPN)
	Score by quarters: 4–3, 5–0, 6–1, 5–0
	Altayev 5	Goals	four players 1

30 August 17:50	Singapore	6–28	Japan	Gelora Bung Karno Aquatic Stadium, Jakarta Referees: Stavridis (GRE), Salnichenko (KAZ)
	Score by quarters: 2–5, 1–8, 2–10, 1–5
	Loh Z.Z., S. Yu 2	Goals	Inaba 5

Classification 5–8

31 August 9:00	Saudi Arabia	5–6	Singapore	Gelora Bung Karno Aquatic Stadium, Jakarta Referees: Ni (CHN), Safabakhsh (IRI)
	Score by quarters: 3–1, 0–1, 2–0, 0–4
	Taleb, Al-Dughather 2	Goals	Koh J.Y. 2

31 August 10:20	South Korea	15–7	Indonesia	Gelora Bung Karno Aquatic Stadium, Jakarta Referees: Tahara (JPN), Salnichenko (KAZ)
	Score by quarters: 4–2, 3–3, 5–1, 3–1
	Park J.M. 6	Goals	Firdaus, Harahap 2

Semifinals

31 August 16:00	Iran	7–18	Japan	Gelora Bung Karno Aquatic Stadium, Jakarta Referees: Tan (SGP), Flahive (AUS)
	Score by quarters: 0–5, 1–1, 4–6, 2–6
	Malek-Khanbanan, Yazdankhah 2	Goals	Inaba 6

31 August 17:20	China	8–9	Kazakhstan	Gelora Bung Karno Aquatic Stadium, Jakarta Referees: Štampalija (CRO), Alexandrescu (ROU)
	Score by quarters: 1–3, 3–1, 2–4, 2–1
	Chen Z.X. 3	Goals	Shmider 3

Classification 7–8

1 September 9:00	Saudi Arabia	12–8	Indonesia	Gelora Bung Karno Aquatic Stadium, Jakarta Referees: Han (KOR), Tahara (JPN)
	Score by quarters: 3–0, 2–3, 0–2, 7–3
	Al-Malki 4	Goals	Budiman, Arifin 2

Classification 5–6

1 September 10:20	Singapore	10–12	South Korea	Gelora Bung Karno Aquatic Stadium, Jakarta Referees: Safabakhsh (IRI), Ni (CHN)
	Score by quarters: 4–3, 1–3, 1–1, 2–1 PSO: 2–4
	Koh J.Y. 4	Goals	Park J.M. 5

Bronze medal match

1 September 16:00	Iran	16–15	China	Gelora Bung Karno Aquatic Stadium, Jakarta Referees: Stavridis (GRE), Alexandrescu (ROU)
	Score by quarters: 1–3, 4–2, 2–1, 1–2 PSO: 8–7
	Malek-Khanbanan 4	Goals	Chen Z.X. 6

Gold medal match

1 September 17:20	Japan	7–8	Kazakhstan	Gelora Bung Karno Aquatic Stadium, Jakarta Referees: Štampalija (CRO), Flahive (AUS)
	Score by quarters: 3–2, 2–0, 2–3, 0–3
	Adachi 3	Goals	Ruday 3