Men’s Event
The four teams expected to go through in Pool A started well with Greece beating Hungary before drawing with Italy. In Pool B came an upset as Australia defeated Croatia. Spain showed its strength by beating Serbia and Montenegro. Greece would win Pool A ahead of Italy, Hungary and United States. Despite the upset, Australia did not come through Pool B. Spain won the group whilst two teams many expected to be strongest in Serbia and Montenegro finished third and fourth. Spain took the first quarter-final 12-8 before Greece defeated Montenegro 10-4. Serbia beat Italy 10-6 and Hungary beat Croatia 15-11. Greece would never go behind in the semi-final when causing, what some would consider, an upset over Hungary by winning 9-6. Serbia would come from behind at halftime to beat Spain 10-9 in looking to defend their Olympic title. The bronze medal match was tight, level at halftime, Hungary would not concede in the second half, beating Spain 9-5. In the final, after an early lead, Serbia would not allow Greece to get back in front and took another gold medal.
🥇Serbia 🇷🇸
🥈Greece 🇬🇷
🥉Hungary 🇭🇺
Women’s Event
Spain and Australia opened strongly with Australia defeating the Netherlands. In Pool B Russia and Hungary played out a draw whilst the United States started strongly against the lower ranked countries. Spain would win the group over Netherlands and Australia as all three beat one another. The United States took their first defeat in 13 years to Hungary but still took the group over Hungary and Russia. Russia edged Australia 9-8 and would go on to face Spain, who won 11-7. The United States led 11-3 at halftime and comfortably beat Canada 16-5. Hungary beat Netherlands 14-11 in the other semi-final. Russia would lead the semi-final 7-6 at half time but the United States would rebound 15-11. Spain was 5-2 up at halftime, stretching the lead to 8-4 at the end of the third quarter. Hungary would pull it back to 8-6 but could not catch up. Hungary would take a 7-5 lead in the third-place play-off at halftime only for Russia to score three in the third quarter. In the final quarter, Hungary would score four and take the bronze. The United States would take the lead and never look back, taking a 14-5 victory of Spain.
🥇United States 🇺🇸
🥈Spain 🇪🇸
🥉Hungary 🇭🇺
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