Water polo at the 1951 Pan American Games

Water polo was contested for men only at the 1951 Pan American Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Competing teams

Five teams contested the event.^[1]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's water polo	Argentina (ARG)	Brazil (BRA)^[2] Alfonso Zaparoli Armando Caropresco Claudino de Castro Edson Perri Guilherme Schall Isaac Moraes João Havelange Leo Rossi Luiz Antônio dos Santos Milton Busin Nelson Brescia Samuel Schemberg Saverio Gregorut	United States (USA)^[3] Marvin Burns Harry Bisbey Norman Dornblaser Robert Hughes Norman Lake James Norris Bruce O'Brien John Spargo Peter Stange William Zerkie

^ "1951 Pan American Games Report" (PDF). www.panamsports.org/. Panam Sports. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
^ "Brazilian medalists at 1951 Pan". Folha de S.Paulo (in Portuguese). 2007. Retrieved July 5, 2013.
^ PAN AMERICAN SPORTING COMMITTEE. "Buenos Aires 1951 - Primeros Juegos Deportivos PanAmericanos" (PDF). p. 325. Retrieved 2 January 2023.