Iran’s Rezvani to referee Rio Olympics water polo contests
Iranian referee Masoud Rezvani has been elected to officiate the water polo events at the forthcoming 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which will be held over a 15-day-period in August.
On Sunday, the Lausanne-based Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA), which administers international competition in aquatics, elected the Iranian national to oversee the high-status international competitions.
Rezvani joins Slovenia’s Boris Margeta, Argentine Germán Müller, Polish Radoslaw Koryzna. Romanian Adrian Alexandrescu, Azerbaijani Mark Koganov, South African Dion Willis, and two other international water polo referees from Canada and the Netherlands.
The water polo tournaments at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro are scheduled to take place from August 6 to August 20 at the Maria Lenk Aquatic Center in Barra da Tijuca.
Twenty teams (twelve in the male section and eight in the female section) will compete in the tournament.
Games that end in ties in elimination rounds are decided by shootouts, as overtime has been abolished since 2013.
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