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Women's water polo became an Olympic sport at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.. As of 2016, women's teams from Europe, North America and Oceania won all five gold medals. [1]The United States is the most successful country in the women's Olympic water polo tournament, with three Olympic gold medals.
At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, he led the team to win the inaugural women's water polo gold medal. [65] [66] Spanish water polo player Miki Oca won a silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Four years later, he won a gold medal at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. As a head coach, he guided Spain women's national water polo team to a ...
Gold medal: 6 6 0 0 2005: Silver medal: 7 4 2 1 2007: Gold medal: 6 6 0 0 2009: Gold medal: 7 6 1 0 2011: 6th place 6 3 2 1 2013: 5th place 7 6 1 0 2015: Gold medal: 7 6 1 0 2017: Gold medal: 6 6 0 0 2019: Gold medal: 6 6 0 0 2022: Gold medal: 6 6 0 0 2023: 5th place 6 5 1 0 2024: Gold medal: 6 6 0 0 Total 8 Titles 112 84 20 8
The following table is pre-sorted by total number of Olympic medals (in descending order), number of Olympic gold medals (in descending order), number of Olympic silver medals (in descending order), year of receiving the last Olympic medal (in ascending order), year of receiving the first Olympic medal (in ascending order), name of the player (in ascending order), respectively.
The U.S. women’s water polo team suffered a heartbreaking loss in the bronze medal match at the Paris Olympics, missing the podium after a goal from the Netherlands in the final second secured ...
Women's water polo became an Olympic sport at the 2000 Olympics. Since then, the United States women's team has won six consecutive medals. There are thirty-five female athletes who have won two or more Olympic medals in water polo.
Margaret Ann Steffens (born June 4, 1993) is an American professional water polo player. She won the gold medal with the United States at the 2012, [1] 2016 [2] and 2020 Summer Olympics. [3] At the 2020 Summer Olympics, Steffens set a new Olympic record for the most goals scored by an individual player in women's water polo at the Olympic Games ...
At the 2020 Summer Olympics, Dutch left-hander Simone van de Kraats scored 28 goals, setting the record for the most goals scored by a female water polo player in a single Olympic tournament. Maggie Steffens of the United States is the first and only female water polo player to achieve this feat twice.