Water polo at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament


The women's water polo tournament at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London was held from 30 July to 9 August at the Water Polo Arena.
Teams from eight nations competed in the tournament and have been seeded into two groups for the preliminary round. A total of 24 games were played, 12 of them in the preliminary round.

Format

The tournament featured eight teams, separated into two groups of four teams. Each team played the other three teams in its pool once in a round-robin format. All eight teams advanced to the quarterfinal stage where they were seeded and played against a team from the other group.
The winners of the quarterfinal games moved on to the semifinals, while the quarterfinal losers played a series of classification games. The semifinal winners played in the gold medal game, while the losers played each other for the bronze.

Preliminary round

All times are BST.

Group A

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Group B

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Final round

;Final bracket
;5th place bracket

Quarterfinals

All times are BST.

5th–8th place classification

All times are BST.

Semifinals

All times are BST.

7th place match

All times are BST.

5th place match

All times are BST.

Bronze medal match

All times are BST.

Gold medal match

All times are BST.

Ranking and statistics

Final ranking

RankTeam
4
5
6
7
8

Medallists

Top goalscorers

Awards

;Most Valuable Player
;Best Goalscorer
;Olympic All-Star Team