Water polo at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Women's tournament

2003 World Water Polo Championship
2003 World Water Polo Championship
10th FINA World Aquatics Championships
Location	Spain
Date(s)	13–25 July
Category	2003 World Aquatics Championships
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The 2003 Women's World Water Polo Championship was the sixth edition of the women's water polo tournament at the World Aquatics Championships, organised by the world governing body in aquatics, the FINA. The tournament was held from 13 to 25 July 2003, and was incorporated into the 2003 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, Spain.^[1]

Hungary, United States, Canada, Russia and Italy qualified for this event by finishing in the top five at the 2002 FINA World Cup in Perth, Australia.

Teams

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Squads

Preliminary round

Group A

	Team	Points	G	W	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Canada	6	3	3	0	29	6	+23
2.	Australia	4	3	2	1	27	9	+18
3.	Brazil	2	3	1	2	14	18	–4
4.	Great Britain	0	3	0	3	4	41	–37

July 13, 2003


Great Britain	1 – 14	Canada
Australia	8 – 1	Brazil

July 15, 2003


Brazil	2 – 9	Canada
Australia	16 – 2	Great Britain

July 17, 2003


Great Britain	1 – 11	Brazil
Australia	3 – 6	Canada

Group B

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Netherlands	5	3	2	1	0	41	15	+26
2.	Russia	5	3	2	1	0	44	14	+30
3.	Japan	2	3	1	0	2	19	32	–13
4.	Venezuela	0	3	0	0	3	12	53	–41

July 13, 2003


Japan	4 – 13	Russia
Netherlands	18 – 4	Venezuela

July 15, 2003


Venezuela	4 – 23	Russia
Netherlands	15 – 3	Japan

July 17, 2003


Venezuela	4 – 12	Japan
Netherlands	8 – 8	Russia

Group C

	Team	Points	G	W	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	United States	6	3	3	0	35	15	+20
2.	Germany	4	3	2	1	30	23	+7
3.	Greece	2	3	1	2	22	21	+1
4.	France	0	3	0	3	9	37	–28

July 13, 2003


Germany	15 – 5	France
Greece	7 – 10	United States

July 15, 2003


United States	15 – 3	France
Germany	10 – 8	Greece

July 17, 2003


Germany	4 – 10	United States
Greece	7 – 1	France

Group D

	Team	Points	G	W	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Hungary	6	3	3	0	37	26	+11
2.	Italy	4	3	2	1	29	24	+5
3.	Spain	2	3	1	2	21	28	–7
4.	Kazakhstan	0	3	0	3	19	28	–9

July 13, 2003


Italy	11 – 6	Kazakhstan
Hungary	16 – 7	Spain

July 15, 2003


Italy	10 – 11	Hungary
Spain	7 – 4	Kazakhstan

July 17, 2003


Italy	8 – 7	Spain
Hungary	10 – 9	Kazakhstan

Play-offs

July 19, 2003


Australia	12 – 1	Japan
Italy	8 – 5	Greece
Russia	12 – 2	Brazil
Spain	9 – 6	Germany

Final round

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final

July 21 – Barcelona

Canada	9
		July 23 – Barcelona
Spain	8
		Canada	2
July 21 – Barcelona
		Italy	5
Italy	8 (5)
				July 25 – Barcelona
Netherlands	8 (3)
				Italy	6
July 21 – Barcelona
				United States	8
Russia	8
		July 23 – Barcelona
Hungary	6
		Russia	7
July 21 – Barcelona
		United States	11	Third place
United States	8
				July 25 – Barcelona
Australia	4
				Canada	7

				Russia	9

Quarterfinals

July 21, 2003


Canada	9 – 8	Spain
Italy	8 (5) – 8 (3) [aps]	Netherlands
Russia	8 – 6	Hungary
United States	8 – 4	Australia

Semifinals

July 19, 2003 — 13th/16th place


Great Britain	5 – 6	Venezuela
France	4 – 9	Kazakhstan

July 21, 2003 — 9th/12th place


Greece	14 – 4	Brazil
Germany	11 – 8	Japan

July 23, 2003 — 5th/8th place


Hungary	6 – 3	Australia
Netherlands	7 – 3	Spain

July 23, 2003 — 1st/4th place


Canada	2 – 5	Italy
United States	11 – 7	Russia

Finals

July 21, 2003 — 15th place


France	9 – 6	Great Britain

July 21, 2003 — 13th place


Kazakhstan	15 – 5	Venezuela

July 23, 2003 — 11th place


Japan	4 – 3	Brazil

July 23, 2003 — 9th place


Greece	10 – 5	Germany

July 25, 2003 — 7th place


Australia	7 – 3	Spain

July 25, 2003 — 5th place


Hungary	8 – 7	Netherlands

July 25, 2003 — Bronze Medal Match


Canada	7 – 9	Russia

July 25, 2003 — Gold Medal Match


United States	8 – 6	Italy

Final ranking

Rank^[1]	Team
	United States
	Italy
	Russia
4.	Canada
5.	Hungary
6.	Netherlands
7.	Australia
8.	Spain
9.	Greece
10.	Germany
11.	Japan
12.	Brazil
13.	Kazakhstan
14.	Venezuela
15.	France
16.	Great Britain

2003 FINA Women's World champion
United States First title

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
United States ^[1] Nicolle Payne Heather Petri Ericka Lorenz Brenda Villa Ellen Estes Natalie Golda Margaret Dingeldein Jacqueline Frank Heather Moody Robin Beauregard Amber Stachowski Gabrielle Domanic Thalia Munro Head coach Guy Baker	Italy Francesca Conti Martina Miceli Carmela Allucci Silvia Bosurgi Erika Lava Manuela Zanchi Tania di Mario Cinzia Ragusa Giusi Malato Alexandra Araujo Maddalena Musumeci Melania Grego Noémi Tóth Head coach Pierluigi Formiconi	Russia Valentina Vorontsova Natalya Shepelina Yekaterina Salimova Sofia Konoukh Yelena Smurova Galina Zlotnikova Anastassia Zoubkova Veronika Linkova Tatiana Petrova Olga Turova Ekaterina Shishova Svetlana Bogdanova Maria Yaina Head coach Yury Mitianin

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "HistoFINA – Water polo medalists and statistics" (PDF). fina.org. FINA. September 2019. p. 57. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.

SwimNews Results

[HistoFINA_PDF-1] "HistoFINA – Water polo medalists and statistics" (PDF). fina.org. FINA. September 2019. p. 57. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.

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