Water Polo at the Olympic Games: Stockholm 1912

The fifth edition of the Olympic Games was staged in Stockholm. The Swedish meticolously studied the organisation of the London edition four years before, and they immediately started to plan the event and build the venues. The water polo tournament took place in the swimming pool located in the Djurgårdsbrunnsviken Bay and was contested by six different national teams.

by Simone Pierotti

Differently from 1908, Austria did not withdraw and took part for the first time in the competition. Another nation at its debut was Hungary, eventually a leading country in this sport thanks to nine Olympic gold medals. Curiously, this was the last edition of the Olympic Games in which the two nations, although separatedly, represented the Austro-Hungarian Empire, destined to fold following World War I.

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Simone Pierotti è nato il 2 gennaio 1985 a Pietrasanta, ma è cresciuto a Viareggio, dove ha mosso i primi passi da giornalista e le prime bracciate da pallanotista. Ha giocato un po' in tutti i ruoli per oltre 10 anni e nel frattempo si è laureato in Comunicazione pubblica all'Università di Pisa, ha fatto da addetto stampa al Torneo di Viareggio e alla Coppa Carnevale di nuoto e collaborato per varie testate. Adesso sta frequentando un master in giornalismo sportivo alla Sheffield Hallam University, nel Regno Unito, e continua a seguire la pallanuoto. Simone Pierotti was born on 2 January 1985 in Pietrasanta, but he grew up in Viareggio, where he fell in love both with journalism and water polo. He played in almost all roles for more than 10 years and in the meantime he graduated in Communication Studies from Università di Pisa, he served as a press officer for the Viareggio Tournament and the Coppa Carnevale of swimming and he has worked as a freelance journalist for several news organisations. He is now attending a MA in Sports Journalism at Sheffield Hallam University and he is going on with covering water polo.