This is a list of female players who have been named in the national water polo team squad in at least two or three Olympic tournaments since the inaugural official edition in 2000.
Apps | Appearances | Rk | Rank | Ref | Reference | ISHOF | International Swimming Hall of Fame |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pos | Playing position | FP | Field player | GK | Goalkeeper | ||
(C) | Captain | p. | page | pp. | pages |
As of 2016, 22 female players have been named in the national water polo team squad in three or more women's Olympic tournaments.
The following table is pre-sorted by edition of the Olympics (in ascending order), name of the team (in ascending order), name of the player (in ascending order), respectively. Last updated: 6 February 2021.
Year | Total | Five-time Olympian | Four-time Olympian | Three-time Olympian | |||
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2000 | 0 | — | 0 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
2004 | 0 | — | 0 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
2008 | 4 | — | 0 | — | 0 | Russia: Sofia Konukh, Elena Smurova United States: Heather Petri, Brenda Villa |
4 |
2012 | 9 | — | 0 | Russia: Sofia Konukh United States: Heather Petri, Brenda Villa |
3 | Australia: Kate Gynther, Melissa Rippon Hungary: Rita Drávucz Italy: Tania Di Mario, Elena Gigli (GK), Anikó Pelle |
6 |
2016 | 13 | — | 0 | Italy: Tania Di Mario | 1 | Australia: Gemma Beadsworth, Bronwen Knox China: Ma Huanhuan, Sun Yating, Yang Jun (GK) Hungary: Orsolya Takács Italy: Teresa Frassinetti Russia: Nadezhda Glyzina, Ekaterina Lisunova, Ekaterina Prokofyeva, Evgenia Soboleva United States: Kami Craig |
12 |
2020 | |||||||
Year | Total | Five-time Olympian | Four-time Olympian | Three-time Olympian |
Last updated: 24 January 2021.
Confederation | Number of multi-time Olympians | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Five-time | Four-time | Three-time | Total | |
Africa – CANA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Americas – UANA | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Asia – AASF | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Europe – LEN | 0 | 2 | 10 | 12 |
Oceania – OSA | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
Total | 0 | 4 | 18 | 22 |
Last updated: 24 January 2021.
Women's team | Number of multi-time Olympians | Confederation | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Five-time | Four-time | Three-time | Total | ||
Australia | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | Oceania – OSA |
China | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | Asia – AASF |
Hungary | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | Europe – LEN |
Italy | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | Europe – LEN |
Russia | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | Europe – LEN |
United States | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | Americas – UANA |
Total | 0 | 4 | 18 | 22 |
Last updated: 24 January 2021.
Position | Number of multi-time Olympians | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Five-time | Four-time | Three-time | Total | |
Field player | 0 | 4 | 16 | 20 |
Goalkeeper | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Total | 0 | 4 | 18 | 22 |
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. Last updated: 7 August 2021.
Eight female athletes competed in water polo at four or more Olympic Games between 2000 and 2020 inclusive.
Apps | Player | Birth | Height | Women's team | Pos | Water polo tournaments | Period (age of first/last) |
Medals | Ref | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | G | S | B | T | ||||||||
4 | Heather Petri | 1978 | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
United States | FP | 2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 12 years (22/34) |
1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | [1] | |
Sofia Konukh | 1980 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) |
Russia | FP | 2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 12 years (20/32) |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | [2] | ||
Brenda Villa | 1980 | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) |
United States | FP | 2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 12 years (20/32) |
1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | [3] | ||
Tania Di Mario | 1979 | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) |
Italy | FP | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 | 12 years (25/37) |
1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | [4] | ||
Bronwen Knox | 1986 | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) |
Australia | FP | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | 13 years (22/35) |
0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | [5] | ||
Nadezhda Glyzina | 1988 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) |
Russia | FP | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 | 13 years (20/33) |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | [6] | |||
ROC | FP | 2020 | ||||||||||||||
Evgenia Soboleva | 1988 | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
Russia | FP | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 | 13 years (19/32) |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | [7] | |||
ROC | FP | 2020 | ||||||||||||||
Ekaterina Prokofyeva | 1991 | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) |
Russia | FP | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 | 13 years (17/30) |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | [8] | |||
ROC | FP | 2020 | ||||||||||||||
Apps | Player | Birth | Height | Women's team | Pos | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Period (age of first/last) |
G | S | B | T | Ref |
Water polo tournaments | Medals |
The following tables are 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.
Apps | Player | Birth | Pos | Water polo tournaments | Age of first/last |
ISHOF member |
Note | Ref | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||||||
3 | Melissa Rippon | 1981 | FP | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 23/31 | [9] | ||||
Kate Gynther | 1982 | FP | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 22/30 | [10] | |||||
Bronwen Knox | 1986 | FP | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 | 22/30 | [5] | |||||
Gemma Beadsworth | 1987 | FP | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 | 21/29 | [11] |
Apps | Player | Birth | Pos | Water polo tournaments | Age of first/last |
ISHOF member |
Note | Ref | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||||||
2 | Ann Dow | 1971 | FP | 2000 | 2004 | 29/33 | [12] | |||||
Johanne Bégin | 1971 | FP | 2000 | 2004 | 28/32 | [13] | ||||||
Cora Campbell | 1974 | FP | 2000 | 2004 | 26/30 | [14] | ||||||
Melissa Collins | 1976 | FP | 2000 | 2004 | 23/27 | [15] | ||||||
Marie Luc Arpin | 1978 | FP | 2000 | 2004 | 22/26 | [16] | ||||||
Jana Salat | 1979 | FP | 2000 | 2004 | 21/25 | [17] | ||||||
Susan Gardiner | 1980 | FP | 2000 | 2004 | 20/24 | [18] | ||||||
Valérie Dionne | 1980 | FP | 2000 | 2004 | 20/24 | [19] |
Apps | Player | Birth | Pos | Water polo tournaments | Age of first/last |
ISHOF member |
Note | Ref | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||||||
3 | Sun Yating | 1988 | FP | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 | 20/28 | [20] | ||||
Yang Jun | 1988 | GK | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 | 20/28 | [21] | |||||
Ma Huanhuan | 1990 | FP | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 | 18/26 | [22] |
Apps | Player | Birth | Pos | Water polo tournaments | Age of first/last |
ISHOF member |
Note | Ref | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||||||
2 | Stavroula Kozompoli | 1974 | FP | 2004 | 2008 | 30/34 | [23] | |||||
Georgia Ellinaki | 1974 | GK | 2004 | 2008 | 30/34 | [24] | ||||||
Evangelia Moraitidou | 1975 | FP | 2004 | 2008 | 29/33 | [25] | ||||||
Aikaterini Oikonomopoulou | 1978 | FP | 2004 | 2008 | 26/30 | [26] | ||||||
Kyriaki Liosi | 1979 | FP | 2004 | 2008 | 24/28 | [27] | ||||||
Georgia Lara | 1980 | FP | 2004 | 2008 | 24/28 | [28] | ||||||
Antigoni Roumpesi | 1983 | FP | 2004 | 2008 | 21/25 | [29] |
Apps | Player | Birth | Pos | Water polo tournaments | Age of first/last |
ISHOF member |
Note | Ref | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||||||
3 | Rita Drávucz | 1980 | FP | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 24/32 | [30] | ||||
Orsolya Takács | 1985 | FP | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 | 23/31 | [31] |
Note:
Apps | Player | Birth | Pos | Water polo tournaments | Age of first/last |
ISHOF member |
Note | Ref | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||||||
4 | Tania Di Mario | 1979 | FP | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 | 25/37 | [4] | |||
3 | Anikó Pelle | 1978 | FP | 2004 HUN |
2008 HUN |
2012 ITA |
25/33 | [32] | ||||
Elena Gigli | 1985 | GK | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 19/27 | [33] | |||||
Teresa Frassinetti | 1985 | FP | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 | 22/30 | [34] |
Apps | Player | Birth | Pos | Water polo tournaments | Age of first/last |
ISHOF member |
Note | Ref | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||||||
2 | Gillian van den Berg | 1971 | FP | 2000 | 2008 | 29/36 | [35] | |||||
Daniëlle de Bruijn | 1978 | FP | 2000 | 2008 | 22/30 | [36] |
Apps | Player | Birth | Pos | Water polo tournaments | Age of first/last |
ISHOF member |
Note | Ref | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||||||
4 | Sofia Konukh | 1980 | FP | 2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 20/32 | [2] | |||
3 | Elena Smurova | 1974 | FP | 2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 26/34 | [37] | ||||
Nadezhda Glyzina | 1988 | FP | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 | 20/28 | [6] | |||||
Evgenia Soboleva | 1988 | FP | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 | 19/27 | [7] | |||||
Ekaterina Lisunova | 1989 | FP | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 | 18/26 | [38] | |||||
Ekaterina Prokofyeva | 1991 | FP | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 | 17/25 | [8] |
Apps | Player | Birth | Pos | Water polo tournaments | Age of first/last |
ISHOF member |
Note | Ref | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||||||
4 | Heather Petri | 1978 | FP | 2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 22/34 | [1] | |||
Brenda Villa | 1980 | FP | 2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 20/32 | 2018 | [3] | |||
3 | Kami Craig | 1987 | FP | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 | 21/29 | [39] |
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