Results of Olympic qualification tournaments are not included. Numbers refer to the final placing of each team at the respective Games.
At the 1904 Summer Olympics, a water polo tournament was contested, but only American contestants participated. Currently the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Swimming Federation (FINA) consider water polo event as part of unofficial program in 1904.
Related teams: Yugoslavia men's Olympic water polo team† (statistics), FR Yugoslavia men's Olympic water polo team†[a] (statistics), Serbia and Montenegro men's Olympic water polo team† (statistics).
The following table is pre-sorted by number of Olympic appearances (in descending order), year of the last Olympic appearance (in ascending order), year of the first Olympic appearance (in ascending order), date of birth (in ascending order), name of the player (in ascending order), respectively.
Number of five-time Olympians: 0
Number of four-time Olympians: 7
Last updated: 8 August 2021.
Abbreviation
FRY – FR Yugoslavia
SCG – Serbia and Montenegro
SRB – Serbia
Male athletes who competed in water polo at four or more Olympics
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.
Number of four-time Olympic medalists: 4
Number of three-time Olympic medalists: 13
Last updated: 11 August 2024.
Abbreviation
FRY – FR Yugoslavia
SCG – Serbia and Montenegro
SRB – Serbia
Male athletes who won three or more Olympic medals in water polo
The following table is pre-sorted by number of total goals (in descending order), year of the last Olympic appearance (in ascending order), year of the first Olympic appearance (in ascending order), name of the player (in ascending order), respectively.
Number of goalscorers (50+ goals): 1
Number of goalscorers (40–49 goals): 1
Number of goalscorers (30–39 goals): 2
Last updated: 1 April 2021.
Abbreviation
FRY – FR Yugoslavia
SCG – Serbia and Montenegro
SRB – Serbia
Male players with 30 or more goals at the Olympics
The following table is pre-sorted by edition of the Olympics (in ascending order), cap number or name of the goalkeeper (in ascending order), respectively.
The following table is pre-sorted by number of total sprints won (in descending order), year of the last Olympic appearance (in ascending order), year of the first Olympic appearance (in ascending order), name of the sprinter (in ascending order), respectively.
Number of sprinters (30+ sprints won, since 2000): 1
Number of sprinters (20–29 sprints won, since 2000): 0
Number of sprinters (10–19 sprints won, since 2000): 1
Number of sprinters (5–9 sprints won, since 2000): 4
Last updated: 15 May 2021.
Abbreviation
Eff % – Efficiency (Sprints won / Sprints contested)
FRY – FR Yugoslavia
SCG – Serbia and Montenegro
SRB – Serbia
Male players with 5 or more sprints won at the Olympics (statistics since 2000)
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 winning the last Olympic medal (in ascending order), year of winning the first Olympic medal (in ascending order), name of the person (in ascending order), respectively. Last updated: 5 May 2021.
As a water polo player, Dejan Savić won three consecutive Olympic medals between 2000 and 2008. At the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, he coached Serbia men's national team to the Olympic title.[3]