Water Polo, Men

Competition 1998 World Aquatics Championships
Venue Perth AUS
Held 9 – 18 January 1998
Status Medal
Competitors 206
Countries 16
Pos Athlete(s) Country Wins Ties Losses
🥇 Spain ESP 8 0 0
Daniel Ballart / Manuel Estiarte / Pedro García / Salvador Gómez / Miguel González / Gustavo Marcos / Rubén Michavila / Iván Moro / Sergio Pedrerol / Iván Pérez / Jesús Miguel Rollán / Jordi Sans / Carles Sanz
🥈 Hungary HUN 6 0 2
Tibor Benedek / Rajmund Fodor / Tamás Kásás / Gergő Kiss / Zoltán Kósz / Zoltán Kovács / Tamás Märcz / Tamás Molnár / Barnabás Steinmetz / Frank Tóth / Zsolt Varga / Attila Vári / Balázs Vincze
🥉 Serbia and Montenegro SCG 5 1 2
Aleksandar Ćirić / Danilo Ikodinović / Dragan Jovanović / Nikola Kuljača / Aleksandar Nikolić / Dušan Popović / Aleksandar Šapić / Dejan Savić / Petar Trbojević / Veljko Uskoković / Željko Vičević / Vlada Vujasinović / Nenad Vukanić
4 Australia AUS 5 0 3
Sean Boyd / Geoff Clark / Eddie Denis / John Fox / Tomas Lasic / Daniel Marsden / Craig Miller / Mark Oberman / Paul Oberman / Peter Soros / Nathan Thomas / Grant Waterman / Gavin Woods
5 Italy ITA 5 1 2
Alberto Angelini / Francesco Attolico / Fabio Bencivenga / Alessandro Bovo / Roberto Calcaterra / Marco Gerini / Alberto Ghibellini / Luca Giustolisi / Amedeo Pomilio / Francesco Postiglione / Carlo Silipo / Leonardo Sottani / Antonio Vittorioso
6 Russia RUS 5 0 3
Maksim Apanasenko / Roman Balashov / Revaz Chomakhidze / Dmitry Dugin / Dmitry Gorshkov / Ilya Konstantinov / Nikolay Kozlov / Nikolay Maksimov / Aleksey Panfili / Yury Smolovoy / Aleksandr Yeryshov / Sergey Yevstigneyev / Irek Zinnurov
7 United States USA 4 0 4
Gavin Arroyo / Ryan Bailey / Dan Hackett / Todd Hosmer / Chris Humbert / Kyle Kopp / Chi Kredell / Jeremy Laster / Robert Lynn / Sean Nolan / Chris Oeding / Brad Schumacher / Wolf Wigo
8 Greece GRE 3 0 5
Georgios Afroudakis / Thomas Chatzis / Makis Georgaras / Filippos Kaiafas / Theodoros Kalakonas / Theodoros Lorantos / Konstantinos Loudis / Georgios Mavrotas / Anastasios Papanastasiou / Vangelis Patras / Georgios Psychos / Epameinondas Samartzidis / Makis Voltirakis
9 Croatia CRO 4 2 2
Samir Barać / Perica Bukić / Damir Glavan / Hrvoje Herceg / Igor Hinić / Ivo Ivaniš / Vjekoslav Kobešćak / Ognjen Kržić / Dalibor Percinić / Siniša Školneković / Ratko Štritof / Renato Vrbičić / Zdeslav Vrdoljak
10 Slovakia SVK 4 0 4
Karol Bačo / Milan Cipov / Štefan Gergely / Mihály Gergely / Gejza Gyurcsi / Miroslav Jančich / Róbert Káid / Alexander Nagy / Peter Nižný / Gabriel Nováček / Karol Schmuck / Tomáš Tóth / Peter Veszelits
11 Kazakhstan KAZ 2 0 6
Roman Chentsov / Sergey Drozdov / Sergey Konon / Sergey Kostenko / Askar Orazalinov / Yevgeny Prokhin / Artemy Sevostyanov / Aleksandr Shvedov / Igor Zagoruyko / Mazhit Mukhamedyarov / Ivan Zaytsev / Yevgeny Zhilyayev / Anatoly Zimarin
12 Brazil BRA 1 0 7
Marcelinho das Chagas / George Chaia / Roberto Chiappini / André Luiz Cordeiro / Yansel Galindo / Paulo Lacativa / Leandro Machado / Daniel Mameri / Kiko Perrone / Fernando Rocha / João Santos / Roberto Seabra / Michel Vieira
13 Canada CAN 3 0 3
Ted Bader / Mark Block / Darryl Bourne / Zoltan Csepregi / Kent Hardisty / Garrett Head / Yannick Lizé / Mike Sabo / Adam Sidky / Peter Smiechowski / Israel Therien / Alexandre Thibeault / Laszlo Toth
14 South Africa RSA 2 0 4
Brendan Varrie / Stephen Standfest / Craig Roy / Jean Oosthuizen / Michael Harrison / Simon Daley / Christopher Reardon / Craig Doubtfire / Duncan Woods / Vlado Trninic / B. Klass / B. Preston / F. Wall
15 Iran IRI 1 0 5
Kianoush Afshin / Amir Abbas Akbarnejad / Ali Reza Amirian / Shahriar Assarzadeg / Aram Eidipour / Ahmad Hosseini / Ali Reza Paziroufte / Kambiz Rakhshani / Masoud Rezvani / Mohsen Rezvani / Saleh
16 New Zealand NZL 0 0 6
Iain Ansell / Quentin Smith / Matthew Claridge / Philip Hadfield / Timothy Grace / Sasha Maese / Rob Gemmell / Sam Saxton / John Christie / Chris Varouhas / Aaron Stockdale / Zane McAlpine / Kurt Goldsworthy

Preliminary Round

Group A

Standings

Pos Team Wins Ties Losses Points
1 Russia RUS 3 0 0 6
2 Croatia CRO 2 0 1 4
3 Kazakhstan KAZ 1 0 2 2
4 New Zealand NZL 0 0 3 0

Matches

Russia RUS 6-4 Croatia CRO
Kazakhstan KAZ 15-6 New Zealand NZL
Russia RUS 13-8 Kazakhstan KAZ
Croatia CRO 19-3 New Zealand NZL
Russia RUS 19-0 New Zealand NZL
Croatia CRO 19-4 Kazakhstan KAZ

Group B

Standings

Pos Team Wins Ties Losses Points
1 Hungary HUN 3 0 0 6
2 Serbia and Montenegro SCG 2 0 1 4
3 Italy ITA 1 0 2 2
4 Iran IRI 0 0 3 0

Matches

Hungary HUN 7-5 Serbia and Montenegro SCG
Italy ITA 15-1 Iran IRI
Hungary HUN 11-7 Italy ITA
Serbia and Montenegro SCG 18-4 Iran IRI
Hungary HUN 16-2 Iran IRI
Serbia and Montenegro SCG 11-10 Italy ITA

Group C

Standings

Pos Team Wins Ties Losses Points
1 Spain ESP 3 0 0 6
2 Greece GRE 2 0 1 4
3 Brazil BRA 1 0 2 2
4 South Africa RSA 0 0 3 0

Matches

Spain ESP 13-3 South Africa RSA
Greece GRE 9-5 Brazil BRA
Spain ESP 7-6 Greece GRE
Brazil BRA 8-4 South Africa RSA
Spain ESP 9-3 Brazil BRA
Greece GRE 11-6 South Africa RSA

Group D

Standings

Pos Team Wins Ties Losses Points
1 Australia AUS 3 0 0 6
2 United States USA 2 0 1 4
3 Slovakia SVK 1 0 2 2
4 Canada CAN 0 0 3 0

Matches

Australia AUS 7-6 United States USA
Slovakia SVK 9-3 Canada CAN
Australia AUS 10-5 Canada CAN
United States USA 8-5 Slovakia SVK
Australia AUS 9-8 Slovakia SVK
United States USA 10-1 Canada CAN

Round 2

Group E

Standings

Pos Team Wins Ties Losses Points
1 Hungary HUN 4 0 1 8
2 Serbia and Montenegro SCG 3 1 1 7
3 Russia RUS 3 0 2 6
4 Italy ITA 2 1 2 5
5 Croatia CRO 1 2 2 4
6 Kazakhstan KAZ 0 0 5 0

Matches

Hungary HUN 17-3 Kazakhstan KAZ
Serbia and Montenegro SCG 6-6 Croatia CRO
Italy ITA 8-6 Russia RUS
Hungary HUN 9-8 Croatia CRO
Serbia and Montenegro SCG 9-7 Russia RUS
Italy ITA 13-3 Kazakhstan KAZ
Hungary HUN 11-12 Russia RUS
Serbia and Montenegro SCG 16-5 Kazakhstan KAZ
Italy ITA 9-9 Croatia CRO

Group F

Standings

Pos Team Wins Ties Losses Points
1 Spain ESP 5 0 0 10
2 Australia AUS 4 0 1 8
3 United States USA 2 0 3 4
4 Greece GRE 2 0 3 4
5 Slovakia SVK 2 0 3 4
6 Brazil BRA 0 0 5 0

Matches

Spain ESP 15-8 Slovakia SVK
Australia AUS 9-2 Brazil BRA
United States USA 2-3 Greece GRE
Spain ESP 5-4 United States USA
Australia AUS 5-3 Greece GRE
Slovakia SVK 9-8 Brazil BRA
Spain ESP 5-4 Australia AUS
United States USA 13-5 Brazil BRA
Greece GRE 9-11 Slovakia SVK

Classification Round

Standings

Pos Team Wins Ties Losses Points
13 Canada CAN 3 0 0 6
14 South Africa RSA 2 0 1 4
15 Iran IRI 1 0 2 2
16 New Zealand NZL 0 0 3 0

Matches

Canada CAN 7-5 New Zealand NZL
South Africa RSA 6-3 Iran IRI
Canada CAN 12-7 South Africa RSA
Iran IRI 6-5 New Zealand NZL
Canada CAN 10-6 Iran IRI
South Africa RSA 7-2 New Zealand NZL

Semi-Finals

Spain ESP 5-3 Serbia and Montenegro SCG
Hungary HUN 10-5 Australia AUS
Italy ITA 10-8
After Extra Time 		United States USA
Russia RUS 12-8 Greece GRE
Croatia CRO 17-6 Brazil BRA
Slovakia SVK 8-7 Kazakhstan KAZ

Finals

Spain ESP 6-4 Hungary HUN
Serbia and Montenegro SCG 9-5 Australia AUS
Italy ITA 14-3 Russia RUS
United States USA 8-4 Greece GRE
Croatia CRO 12-3 Slovakia SVK
Kazakhstan KAZ 7-6 Brazil BRA