Water polo at the 2022 Asian Games – Men facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Men`s Water Polo at the 2022 Asian Games
Venue	Huanglong Sports Centre Swimming & Diving Centre
Date	2–7 October 2023
Nations	8
Medalists
Japan    China    Kazakhstan
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The men's tournament of Water polo at the 2022 Asian Games at Hangzhou, China, was held from 2–7 October 2023 at the Huanglong Sports Centre Swimming & Diving Centre. The Asian Games will act as the Asian qualifying tournament for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.

Squads

China	Hong Kong	Iran	Japan
Chen Rui Chen Yimin Chen Zhongxian Chu Chenghao Hu Zhangxin Liang Zhiwei Liu Yu Peng Jiahao Tan Feihu Wu Honghui Xie Zekai Zhang Chufeng Zhang Jinpeng	Yim Wai Ho Wong Ting Hang Fung Kong Chun Fung Kong Ching Ip Chun Hong Lau Hok Yue Ko Ho Wai Cheng Hei Man Ku Yat Wa Choi Hin Kit Gilman Cheng Siu Yuen Cheng Hei Chun Kong Cheuk Kiu	Hamed Karimi Mahdi Daeetaghi Amir Hossein Rahbar Mahdi Barzegarisharifabad Amirreza Jalilpour Khashayar Ghareh Ziaaldini Peyman Asadi Aghajari Mehdi Yazdankhah Sohei Rostamian Amin Ghavidehajiagha Arshia Almasi Alireza Mehrikohneshahri Amirata Khazaei	Seiya Adachi Atsushi Arai Kenta Araki Kiyomu Date Yusuke Inaba Towa Nishimura Ikkei Nitta Daichi Ogihara Keigo Okawa Toi Suzuki Mitsuru Takata Katsuyuki Tanamura Taiyo Watanabe
Kazakhstan	South Korea	Singapore	Thailand
Ruslan Akhmetov Danil Artyukh Temirlan Balfanbayev Yegor Beloussov Dušan Marković Daniil Matolinets Mikhail Ruday Murat Shakenov Alexey Shmider Sultan Shonzhigitov Eduard Tsoy Rustam Ukumanov Srđan Vuksanović	Jung Byeong-young Kim Ho-jun Lee Chang-hun Kwon Tae-woo Gwon Dae-yong Jeon Gi-jae Kim Sung-hoon Lee Yong-seok Han Hyo-min Yong Woo-seok Kim Chan-soo Kang Min-soo Lee Si-deok	Darren Lee Jit An Loh Zhi Zhi Chow Jing Lun Derek Chan Wen Kai Cayden Loh Dejun Paul Louis Tan Jwee Ann Dominic Chan Bo Xun Ang An Jun Yu Junjie Lee Cheng-Kang Yip Yang Koh Jian Ying Lee Kai Yang	Chanoknan Kaewmanee Suteenan Kaewmanee Kananon Kuntawong Phatsakorn Maneejohn Kittikorn Kongboonkerd Kreerati Pimpapak Pokpong Morksang Pannatorn Khaekram Apiruk Chaimongkol Pattanit Chompoosang Peerawat Chairit Chanon Khramyoo Sutthiyarn Pongprayoon

Preliminary Round

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00)

Group A

2 October 19:00	Thailand	8–27	China	Huanglong Sports Centre Swimming & Diving Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Ivan Raković (SRB) Tigran Simonyan (HKG)
	Score by quarters: 1–6, 4–9, 1–7, 2–5
	three players 2	Goals	Hu, Zhang C. 5

2 October 20:30	South Korea	4–15	Iran	Huanglong Sports Centre Swimming & Diving Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Kazuzo Moribayashi (JPN) Cheng Beng Guan (SGP)
	Score by quarters: 2–4, 1–4, 1–4, 0–3
	Lee C. 2	Goals	Yazdankhah 6

3 October 15:00	Thailand	7–26	Iran	Huanglong Sports Centre Swimming & Diving Centre, Hangzhou Referees: David Gómez (ESP) Viktor Salnichenko (KAZ)
	Score by quarters: 2–8, 1–5, 1–6, 3–7
	Pimpapak 3	Goals	six players 3

3 October 19:00	South Korea	8–15	China	Huanglong Sports Centre Swimming & Diving Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Kazuzo Moribayashi (JPN) Tigran Simonyan (HKG)
	Score by quarters: 0–2, 1–4, 3–4, 4–5
	Jeon, Kwon 2	Goals	Zhang C. 5

4 October 16:30	Thailand	7–23	South Korea	Huanglong Sports Centre Swimming & Diving Centre, Hangzhou
	Score by quarters: 2–5, 1–7, 3–3, 1–8
	Kaewmanee, Pimpapak 2	Goals	Gwon, Kang 4

4 October 19:00	China	15–7	Iran	Huanglong Sports Centre Swimming & Diving Centre, Hangzhou
	Score by quarters: 3–4, 6–2, 2–1, 4–0
	Chen Z. 6	Goals	Almasi 3

Group B

2 October 15:00	Kazakhstan	25–4	Hong Kong	Huanglong Sports Centre Swimming & Diving Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Shahriar Assarzadegan (IRI) Kanit Sonthipakdee (THA)
	Score by quarters: 6–2, 7–0, 9–1, 3–1
	Ruday 6	Goals	four players 1

2 October 16:30	Singapore	5–28	Japan	Huanglong Sports Centre Swimming & Diving Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Zhang Liang (CHN) Han Soo-chan (KOR)
	Score by quarters: 1–6, 0–7, 3–8, 1–7
	Chan 2	Goals	three players 4

3 October 16:30	Kazakhstan	13–15	Japan	Huanglong Sports Centre Swimming & Diving Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Georgios Stavridis (GRE) Germán Moller (ARG)
	Score by quarters: 3–4, 2–4, 4–4, 4–3
	Vuksanović 3	Goals	Inaba 6

3 October 20:30	Singapore	11–8	Hong Kong	Huanglong Sports Centre Swimming & Diving Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Ivan Raković (SRB) Shahriar Assazedegan (IRI)
	Score by quarters: 1–4, 3–2, 5–2, 2–0
	Koh 3	Goals	Cheng HM 3

4 October 15:00	Kazakhstan	22–4	Singapore	Huanglong Sports Centre Swimming & Diving Centre, Hangzhou
	Score by quarters: 5–1, 6–1, 6–0, 5–2
	three players 4	Goals	four players 1

4 October 20:30	Hong Kong	6–27	Japan	Huanglong Sports Centre Swimming & Diving Centre, Hangzhou
	Score by quarters: 2–6, 1–8, 2–7, 1–6
	Cheng, Fung 2	Goals	Watanabe 7

Final round

Bracket

	Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Gold medal match
	5 October
	Iran	13
					6 October
	Singapore	6
					Iran	11
	5 October
					Japan	18
	Thailand	2
									7 October
	Japan	23
									Japan	11
	5 October
									China	7
	South Korea	8
					6 October
	Kazakhstan	15
					Kazakhstan	13
	5 October
					China (PSO)	14			Bronze medal match
	China	23
									7 October
	Hong Kong	3
									Iran	9
									Kazakhstan (PSO)	10

	5–8th place semifinals				Fifth place match
	6 October
	Singapore	9
					7 October
	Thailand	6
					Singapore	10
	6 October
					South Korea	8
	South Korea	15
	Hong Kong	11
					Seventh place match
					7 October
					Thailand	19
					Hong Kong (PSO)	20

Quarterfinals

5 October 15:00	Iran	13–6	Singapore	Huanglong Sports Centre Swimming & Diving Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Ivan Raković (SRB) Kazuzo Moribayashi (JPN)
	Score by quarters: 2–2, 4–1, 2–2, 5–1
	Yazdankhah 5	Goals	Koh 2

5 October 16:30	South Korea	8–15	Kazakhstan	Huanglong Sports Centre Swimming & Diving Centre, Hangzhou Referees: David Gómez (ESP) Zhang Liang (CHN)
	Score by quarters: 1–3, 2–2, 3–4, 2–6
	Han 3	Goals	Ruday 4

5 October 19:00	China	23–3	Hong Kong	Huanglong Sports Centre Swimming & Diving Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Germán Moller (ARG) Viktor Salnichenko (KAZ)
	Score by quarters: 6–0, 5–1, 5–2, 7–0
	Chen R., Peng 4	Goals	three players 1

5 October 20:30	Thailand	2–23	Japan	Huanglong Sports Centre Swimming & Diving Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Cheng Beng Guan (SGP) Tigran Simonyan (HKG)
	Score by quarters: 0–6, 1–7, 1–6, 0–4
	Chompoosang, Pimpapak 1	Goals	Takata 5

5–8th place semifinals

6 October 15:00	Singapore	9–6	Thailand	Huanglong Sports Centre Swimming & Diving Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Viktor Salnichenko (KAZ) Kazuzo Moribayashi (JPN)
	Score by quarters: 3–1, 3–1, 2–3, 1–1
	three players 2	Goals	Pimpapak 2

6 October 16:30	South Korea	15–11	Hong Kong	Huanglong Sports Centre Swimming & Diving Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Zhang Liang (CHN) Shahriar Assazedegan (IRI)
	Score by quarters: 4–3, 3–4, 6–0, 2–4
	three players 3	Goals	four players 2

Semifinals

6 October 19:00	Iran	11–18	Japan	Huanglong Sports Centre Swimming & Diving Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Ivan Raković (SRB) David Gómez (ESP)
	Score by quarters: 2–4, 2–5, 4–5, 3–4
	Rostamian 4	Goals	Adachi, Inaba 3

6 October 20:30	Kazakhstan	13–14	China	Huanglong Sports Centre Swimming & Diving Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Georgios Stavridis (GRE) Germán Moller (ARG)
	Score by quarters: 3–2, 1–4, 3–2, 3–2  PSO: 3–4
	Akhmetov, Tsoy 3	Goals	Zhang C. 6

Seventh place match

7 October 15:00	Thailand	19–20	Hong Kong	Huanglong Sports Centre Swimming & Diving Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Kazuzo Moribayashi (JPN) Cheng Beng Guan (SGP)
	Score by quarters: 1–3, 4–3, 3–1, 3–4  PSO: 8–9
	Pimpapak 5	Goals	Cheng HM, Choi 6

Fifth place match

7 October 16:30	Singapore	10–8	South Korea	Huanglong Sports Centre Swimming & Diving Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Viktor Salnichenko (KAZ) Zhang Liang (CHN)
	Score by quarters: 3–3, 3–3, 1–1, 3–1
	Koh, Yu 2	Goals	Gwon 3

Bronze medal match

7 October 19:00	Iran	9–10	Kazakhstan	Huanglong Sports Centre Swimming & Diving Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Ivan Raković (SRB) Germán Moller (ARG)
	Score by quarters: 3–2, 1–2, 2–0, 1–3  PSO: 2–3
	Yazdankhah 3	Goals	Marković, Ruday 3

Gold medal match

7 October 20:30	Japan	11–7	China	Huanglong Sports Centre Swimming & Diving Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Georgios Stavridis (GRE) David Gómez (ESP)
	Score by quarters: 1–0, 4–1, 4–4, 2–2
	Inaba 3	Goals	Chen Z. 3

Final standing

Rank	Country
1	Japan
2	China
3	Kazakhstan
4	Iran
5	Singapore
6	South Korea
7	Hong Kong
8	Thailand