What is Water polo at the 1922 Women's Olympiad?
{{Infobox sports competition event | event = Water polo | competition = [[1922 Women's Olympiad]] | venue = [[Port Hercules]] | location = [[Monte Carlo]], Monaco | dates = 22 April 1922 | competitors = 14 | nations = 2 | win_value = | gold = {{wpw|NED}} | silver = {{wpw|GBR}} | bronze = | gold_nation = | silver_nation = | bronze_nation = }} {{Aquatics at the 1922 Women's Olympiad}} The '''water polo competition''' at the [[1922 Women's Olympiad]] was held on 22 April 1922. It was the first ever women's water polo championship. The venue of the competition was the [[Port Hercules]], the harbour of [[Monte Carlo]], Monaco.<ref name=venue>{{cite web|url= https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010026032:mpeg21:a0038 |title= Hollandsche zwemsters te Monte Carlo.|work=[[Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant]] |date=22 April 1922|via=[[Delpher]]|access-date=13 October 2022|language=nl}}</ref> The competition was won by the Netherlands, who beated the United Kingdom with 6-0. ==Background== Women's water polo was in the early 20th-century a rising sport. Until 1922 not many international matches have been held. However the Netherlands and Great Britain already played once against each other. In January [[London Ladies Waterpolo Club in the Netherlands in 1914|1914 the Ladies Water Polo Club played two matched in the Netherlands]] against the Dutch women's water polo team of the Hollandsche Dames-Zwemclub (H.D.Z.) in [[Amsterdam]] and [[The Hague]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010109340:mpeg21:a0149 |title= Hollandsche Dames-Zwemclub.|work=[[Het nieuws van den dag]] |date=28 January 1914|via=[[Delpher]]|access-date=13 October 2022|language=nl}}</ref> At the last Olympics, the [[1920 Summer Olymipics]], women's water polo was a demonstration event, where two women's teams from the Netherlands played against in each other in an exhibition match.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010006788:mpeg21:a0116 |ti