@spark_waterpolo: How far do you think you swim in a match? Comment your position and your guess 👇 The internet loves to say water polo players swim 4 to 5 km per game. When researchers actually measured it, the numbers came out much lower: about 700 m in a video analysis of elite women's matches, and up to 1.5 km for wingers wearing GPS under their caps. So the distance is short. The work is not. Players switch movement roughly every 6 seconds: sprint, wrestle, tread water, repeat. That is why water polo conditioning looks nothing like lap swimming. Goalkeepers barely travel at all. Most of their game is slow sideways swimming and nonstop eggbeater, plus around 35 explosive jumps. 1.5 km is 30 lengths of an Olympic pool. Not far. Just brutal. Sources: Tan et al. 2009 (Journal of Sports Sciences), Baloga 2016 (Studia UBB Educatio Artis Gymnasticae), Platanou & Thanopoulos 2002 (Kinesiology). #waterpolo #waterpoloplayer #waterpolotraining #sportsscience #waterpololife
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Tuesday 10 November 2026 07:01:39 GMT
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Max :
We did this with a GPS in our game AVG was ~3,1km team , wingers had higher
2026-11-10 14:35:54
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maxiking_44 :
as an retired gk and now wing + utility the 700m is probably 1 quarter becose u15 pool is 25 and 1 att takes avg 20 sec and theres 8 mins in an quarter so it's around 24 attacks (let's remove 2 for the shorter att and the end so 22) and and average swim per attack is around 15-20 meters so let's use the middle witch is 17.5 m per attack so 385 meters per quarter but you don't play the whole match so bench players prob swim those 385 m while the starting 6 swim around 3 quarters of match (and sometimes more) so the players swims around 1,115 m per match so 1.115 km (36.58 feet)
hope it helps
2026-11-10 19:37:22
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Niko Panda🐼 :
Depends how good you are if your really bad you could be swimming way more than if you'd one good team
2026-11-10 13:58:50
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rjobaan :
depends on player....
2026-11-10 19:49:17
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2026-11-12 01:21:23
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