Water polo at the 2022 Asian Games – Men

Men
at the 2022 Asian Games
Men ; at the 2022 Asian Games
Venue	Huanglong Swimming Centre
Date	2–7 October 2023
Competitors	104 from 8 nations
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 Swimming Centre.^[1] The Asian Games acted as the Asian qualifying tournament for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.

Squads

China	Hong Kong	Iran	Japan
Wu Honghui Hu Zhangxin Chu Chenghao Peng Jiahao Zhang Jinpeng Xie Zekai Chen Zhongxian Chen Rui Chen Yimin Liu Yu Zhang Chufeng Tan Feihu Liang Zhiwei	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 Gilman Choi Cheng Siu Yuen Cheng Hei Chun Kong Cheuk Kiu	Hamed Karimi Mehdi Daeitaghi Amir Hossein Rahbar Mehdi Barzegari Amir Reza Jalilpour Khashayar Ziaeddini Peyman Asadi Mehdi Yazdankhah Soheil Rostamian Amin Ghavidel Arshia Almasi Alireza Mehri Amir Ata Khazaei	Katsuyuki Tanamura Seiya Adachi Taiyo Watanabe Daichi Ogihara Ikkei Nitta Toi Suzuki Kiyomu Date Mitsuru Takata Atsushi Arai Yusuke Inaba Keigo Okawa Kenta Araki Towa Nishimura
Kazakhstan	Singapore	South Korea	Thailand
Temirlan Balfanbayev Eduard Tsoy Yegor Beloussov Dušan Marković Danil Artyukh Alexey Shmider Murat Shakenov Srđan Vuksanović Rustam Ukumanov Mikhail Ruday Ruslan Akhmetov Sultan Shonzhigitov Daniil Matolinets	Darren Lee Loh Zhi Zhi Chow Jing Lun Derek Chan Cayden Loh Paul Louis Tan Dominic Chan Ang An Jun Yu Junjie Lee Cheng Kang Yip Yang Koh Jian Ying Lee Kai Yang	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	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

Results

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

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	China	3	3	0	57	23	+34	9	Quarterfinals
2	Iran	3	2	1	48	26	+22	6
3	South Korea	3	1	2	35	37	−2	3
4	Thailand	3	0	3	22	76	−54	0

Source: OCA

2 October 19:00	Thailand	8–27	China	Huanglong Swimming 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 Swimming 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 Swimming 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 Swimming 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 Swimming 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 Swimming Centre, Hangzhou
	Score by quarters: 3–4, 6–2, 2–1, 4–0
	Chen Z. 6	Goals	Almasi 3

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Japan	3	3	0	70	24	+46	9	Quarterfinals
2	Kazakhstan	3	2	1	60	23	+37	6
3	Singapore	3	1	2	20	58	−38	3
4	Hong Kong	3	0	3	18	63	−45	0

Source: OCA

2 October 15:00	Kazakhstan	25–4	Hong Kong	Huanglong Swimming Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Assarzadegan (IRI), 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 Swimming Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Zhang (CHN), Han (KOR)
	Score by quarters: 1–6, 0–7, 3–8, 1–7
	Do. Chan 2	Goals	Adachi, Suzuki, Inaba 4

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

3 October 20:30	Singapore	11–8	Hong Kong	Huanglong Swimming Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Raković (SRB), Assazedegan (IRI)
	Score by quarters: 1–4, 3–2, 5–2, 2–0
	Koh J.Y. 3	Goals	Cheng H.M. 3

4 October 15:00	Kazakhstan	22–4	Singapore	Huanglong Swimming Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Gómez (ESP), Zhang (CHN)
	Score by quarters: 5–1, 6–1, 6–0, 5–2
	Artyukh, Vuksanović, Ruday 4	Goals	four players 1

4 October 20:30	Hong Kong	6–27	Japan	Huanglong Swimming Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Han (KOR), Sonthipakdee (THA)
	Score by quarters: 2–6, 1–8, 2–7, 1–6
	Fung K.Chi., Cheng H.M., 2	Goals	Watanabe 7

Final round

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 Swimming 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 Swimming 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 Swimming 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 Swimming 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 Swimming 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 Swimming 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 Swimming 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 Swimming 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 Swimming 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 Swimming 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 Swimming 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 Swimming 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