Men's Water Polo Qualification to Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games

[vlad 396]

Edited July 25, 2019 by vlad

[vlad 396]

 Men's Tournament

Quota	Qualification Event	Notes
Australia	Automatic Qualification (Oceania)
Croatia	Men's Water Polo FINA Olympic Games Qualification Tournament 2021
Greece	Men's Water Polo FINA Olympic Games Qualification Tournament 2021
Hungary	Men's Water Polo LEN European Championship 2020
Italy	Men's Water Polo Tournament at the Aquatics FINA World Championships 2019
Japan	Host Nation
Kazakhstan	Asian Games 2018
Montenegro	Men's Water Polo FINA Olympic Games Qualification Tournament 2021
Serbia	Men's Water Polo FINA World League 2019
South Africa	Automatic Qualification (Africa)
Spain	Men's Water Polo Tournament at the Aquatics FINA World Championships 2019
United States	Men's Water Polo Tournament at the Pan American Games 2019

[Benolympique 2,438]

Australia quota is official ?

[hckošice 16,605]

Updated as of January 24th, 2020

[crolympics 22]

I've just read in croatian media that South Africa gets a free quota, which would be a shitshow.

[intoronto 6,886]

So when did South Africa decide to send their wp teams? Makes no sense at all. I wonder if FINA pressured them to send teams to get full continental representation.

[Vektor 3,326]

RIP Russia's and Georgia's chances for a quota if that's true. If there will be only 3 quotas for the OQT, Croatia, Montenegro and Greece will qualify. 

[Dunadan 1,103]

Any official confirmation?

 

It's surely true that South Africa have relaxed their criteria and will have more athletes in Tokyo across many sports...https://www.sascoc.co.za/2020/01/24/six-months-count-down-to-tokyo-2020-olympic-games/

 

 

[dcro 10,211]

7 minutes ago, Dunadan said:

Any official confirmation?

 

It's surely true that South Africa have relaxed their criteria and will have more athletes in Tokyo across many sports...https://www.sascoc.co.za/2020/01/24/six-months-count-down-to-tokyo-2020-olympic-games/

 

 

 

It doesn't help that majority of selection policies are yet to be published... Though I personally don't expect it to be true. Sending WP teams would be pushing it even for more relaxed standards, as they have already said no to way more competitive athletes (including London 2012 medalist Hartley).

[phelps 8,684]

according to a few prestigious sources, it's basically confirmed (still, not official, but almost) that South Africa decided to take advantage of their "free quota" in both the men and women's Waterpolo Olympic tournaments in Tokyo...

 

therefore, for what concerns the men's division, the final qualification tournament ( Rotterdam, March 29th-April 5th) will only award 3 spots...

 

and it's confirmed that it will be a 12-team tournament (so far, only the 5 European sides / / / / and are officially confirmed as starters in this tournament...the remaining 6 teams however should be all from outside Europe, with more European teams -in ranking order- from the last ECH standing-by waiting for possible withdrawls of teams with priority)...