Men's Water Polo EA European Championship 2026 Road to LA 2028

[Bailer 95]

On 1/22/2026 at 9:39 AM, hckošice said:

Dear lord allmighty !!!

 

I see We lost to Malta. and it was not even a close score 

 

oh my dear... once we were even at the Olympics ffs. nothing works in this country, nothing

Vivat Slovakia 

 

But in all seriousness, it's been repeatedly stated how important it is to qualify in a team event for the next Summer Olympics. However, I have no idea if we even have a realistic chance.

 

We only have one fewer individual athlete competing this year than we did in Paris, so individual quota spots aren't the main issue. Where can we find a competitive team, like we do in hockey? Maybe the women's handball team could start something big, but that's still far in the future, very likely unachievable in just two years.

 

And to be clear, as horrific as our medal tally from Paris looked, those were some of the unluckiest Olympics for Slovakia I have ever seen. Finishing in the top six seven times (!) is absolutely insane.

[hckošice 15,746]

47 minutes ago, Bailer said:

Vivat Slovakia 

 

But in all seriousness, it's been repeatedly stated how important it is to qualify in a team event for the next Summer Olympics. However, I have no idea if we even have a realistic chance.

 

We only have one fewer individual athlete competing this year than we did in Paris, so individual quota spots aren't the main issue. Where can we find a competitive team, like we do in hockey? Maybe the women's handball team could start something big, but that's still far in the future, very likely unachievable in just two years.

 

And to be clear, as horrific as our medal tally from Paris looked, those were some of the unluckiest Olympics for Slovakia I have ever seen. Finishing in the top six seven times (!) is absolutely insane.

Yeah, Qualifying a team for the summer olympics is completely out of the question. Not going to happen for a long time. In Sydney 2000 we had 3 teams W Basketball, M Football & M Water Polo, it was already insane and this was even in a totally different era. Nowadays it is just Utopian. We have none to be at a high level in Europe to aspire for a qualification to the Olympics.

 

W Handball is really the most obvious chance in a long shot. The U17 girls showed last summer that it is possible, who knows maybe in Brisbane if the planets allign well. 

 

Paris 2024 was a nightmare I do not want to remember. The worst games I experienced in my life. point.

[lapaj 428]

3-4th places:

 

 12-5

 

First ever EC medal for the greek men's team! 

 

 

[lapaj 428]

In the final:

 

 10-7

 

Congrats !

 

[MatiReimundo 466]

2026 Men's European WaterPolo Championship - Belgrade

 

Results (January 10-25, 2026)

 

 

Men's:

1. Serbia  (Filipovic - Mandic - Rasovic - Randelovic - Cuk - Lazic - Drasovic -  N Jaksic - Vico - Dedovic - P Jaksic - Rasovic - Glusac - Martinovic - Lukic)

2. Hungary  (Kristof - Angyal - Manhercz - Akos - Vigvari - Nagy - Fekete - David - Kovacs - Vendel - Jansik - Batizi - Vogel - Zsombor - Varga)

3. Greece  (Zerdevas - Genidounias - Skoumpakis - Gkiouvetsis - Argyropoulos - Papanastasiou - Gkillas - Kalogeropoulos - Chalyvopoulos - Kakaris - Nikolaidis - Papanikolaou - Tzortzatos - Pouros - Spachits)

4. Italy  

5. Spain  

6. Croatia  

7. Montenegro  

8. Romania  

9. France  

10. Georgia  

11. Netherlands  

12. Turkey  

13. Malta  

14. Slovakia  

15. Slovenia  

16. Israel  

 

Results