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 F�d�ration 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 Germ�n M�ller, 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.

By Press TV