HELSINKI and MELBOURNE OLYMPIC GAMES

FINAL STANDINGS - WATER POLO 

Romania's national water polo team that took part in the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki, Finland, featured not fewer than five ILSA players: Weinreich Lazar, Norman Zoltan, Stanescu Adalbert, Iosim Octavian, and Török Gabor. Four years later, in Melbourne, Australia, the national team featured yet another ILSA player, Hoszpodar Zoltan.

Helsinki 1952    

HELSINKI - 1952

MELBOURNE - 1956

1. Hungary
2. Yugoslavia
3. Italy

4. United States of America
5. Netherlands
6. Belgium
7. Soviet Union
8. Spain
9. Brazil
10. Egypt
11. Sweden
12. Great Britain
13. Austria
14. Republic of South Africa
15. Federal Republic of Germany
16. Argentina
17. Romania
18. Mexico
19. Australia
20. Portugal
21. India

1. Hungary
2. Yugoslavia
3. Soviet Union
4. Italy
5. United States of America
6. Federal Republic of Germany
7. Great Britain
8. Romania
9. Australia
10. Singapore

ROMANIA'S 1956 OLYMPIC TEAM
Alexandru "Sisi" Marinescu
Zoltan Hospodar (ILSA)
Aurel Zahan 
Gavril Nagy 
Francisc Simon
Ivan Bordi
Alexandru Szabo
Alexandru Badita
Iosif Deutsch