Water polo at the 1964 Summer Olympics
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| Water polo at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad | ||||||||||
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| Venues | Tokyo Metropolitan Indoor Swimming Pool | |||||||||
| Date | 11–18 October 1964 | |||||||||
| Competitors | 137 from 13 nations | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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Water polo at the 1964 Summer Olympics was held at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Shibuya, Tokyo. The gymnasium was built in 1961-1964 as the first indoor pool for Olympic water polo; it also hosted all swimming and diving events and could accommodate over 13,000 people.
In the water polo tournament, two teams from each of the four preliminary groups advanced to two semifinals, and their four winners competed for the medals. The scores from the preliminary rounds were taken into account in the semifinals, and the scores from the semifinals were taken into account in the finals.[1][2]
| Qualification | Date | Host | Berths | Qualified |
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| Host nation | 26 May 1959 |  Munich | 1 |  Japan |
| 1960 Summer Olympics | 25 August–3 September 1960 |  Rome | 5 | Italy Soviet Union Hungary Netherlands Romania |
| European Water Polo Championship | 19–25 August 1962 |  Leipzig | East Germany Belgium Sweden | |
| 1963 Pan American Games | 24 April–4 May 1963 |  São Paulo |  United States Brazil Argentina | |
| Africa | 1963 | 1 |  Egypt | |
| Oceania | 1963 | 1 |  Australia | |
| Total | ||||
