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WATER POLO TOURNAMENT IN RIO MAIOR

Between 6-8 October, the Olympic Swimming Pool of Rio Maior hosted another international water polo competition. The national teams of Portugal, Ukraine, Lithuania and the Czech Republic played against each other in one of the qualifying groups for the European Championship held in Barcelona.

After the games in Rio Maior, the national team of Portugal finished second in the group, and will play a playoff against Georgia or Slovakia to qualify for the European Championships. The national team played 3 games in this tournament. On the first day, they won against Czech Republic by 17-9, while losing the next day against Ukraine by 10-11. On the last day of the completion on Sunday, they won against Lithuania by 16-7.

Rio Maior was again the venue of a major water polo competition, after having hosted a qualification round for the European Water Polo Championship in 2015, with women's national teams from Portugal, Croatia, Switzerland and Greece.

At the Barcelona European Championships from 14 to 28 July 2018, there will be 16 countries distributed in 4 groups of 4 teams. Currently, Portugal occupies a place in the European rankings that allows it to have an actual chance to obtain one of these 16 places of the elite for the first time.

In Rio Maior this competition is being organized by the Portuguese Swimming Federation and the European Swimming League, supported by Desmor Rio Maior Sports Centre and City Hall of Rio Maior.

During the competition, the teams and the organization were housed in Rio Maior, in the Sports Complex and in the hotels of the towns.

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