Water Polo, Men

Competition 2001 World Aquatics Championships
Venue Fukuoka JPN
Held 19 – 29 July 2001
Status Medal
Competitors 208
Countries 16
Pos Athlete(s) Country Wins Ties Losses
🥇 Spain ESP 8 0 0
Ángel Luis Andreo / Daniel Ballart / Salvador Gómez / Gabriel Hernández / Gustavo Marcos / Guillermo Molina / Daniel Moro / Iván Moro / Sergio Pedrerol / Iván Pérez / Jesús Miguel Rollán / Javier Sánchez / Carles Sanz
🥈 Serbia and Montenegro SCG 6 1 1
Aleksandar Ćirić / Danilo Ikodinović / Viktor Jelenić / Branko Peković / Aleksandar Šapić / Dejan Savić / Denis Šefik / Aleksandar Šoštar / Petar Trbojević / Veljko Uskoković / Vlada Vujasinović / Nenad Vukanić / Predrag Zimonjić
🥉 Russia RUS 6 0 2
Roman Balashov / Revaz Chomakhidze / Aleksandr Fedorov / Sergey Garbuzov / Dmitry Gorshkov / Nikolay Kozlov / Aleksey Panfili / Andrey Rekechinsky / Ilya Smirnov / Yury Yatsev / Aleksandr Yeryshov / Marat Zakirov / Irek Zinnurov
4 Italy ITA 4 1 3
Alberto Angelini / Leonardo Binchi / Fabrizio Buonocore / Alessandro Calcaterra / Roberto Calcaterra / Luigi Di Costanzo / Maurizio Felugo / Federico Mistrangelo / Francesco Postiglione / Bogdan Rath / Carlo Silipo / Stefano Tempesti / Fabio Violetti
5 Hungary HUN 6 0 2
Tibor Benedek / Péter Biros / Rajmund Fodor / Tamás Kásás / Gergő Kiss / Zoltán Kósz / Tamás Molnár / Barnabás Steinmetz / Zoltán Szécsi / Bulcsú Székely / Tamás Varga / Zsolt Varga / Attila Vári
6 Greece GRE 4 0 4
Georgios Afroudakis / Ioannis Augustyanakis / Konstantinos Dandolos / Nikolaos Deligiannis / Theodoros Kalakonas / Theodoros Chatzitheodorou / Konstantinos Loudis / Dimitrios Mazis / Georgios Reppas / Anastasios Schizas / Nikolaos Stellatos / Ioannis Thomakos / Antonios Vlontakis
7 United States USA 3 0 5
Tony Azevedo / Ryan Bailey / Layne Beaubien / Sean Kern / Genai Kerr / Dan Klatt / Merrill Moses / Jeremy Pope / Jeff Powers / Brad Schumacher / Chris Segesman / Wolf Wigo / Adam Wright
8 Croatia CRO 4 0 4
Samir Barać / Danijel Benić / Teo Đogaš / Igor Hinić / Ivo Ivaniš / Vjekoslav Kobešćak / Aljoša Kunac / Slavko Letica / Mario Oreb / Josip Pavić / Višeslav Sarić / Mile Smodlaka / Goran Volarević
9 Netherlands NED 4 0 4
Bjørn Boom / Kjell Boom / Jeroen Cavaljé / Matthijs de Bruijn / Gijs de Kock / Arno Havenga / Tjerk Kramer / Marco Scheffer / Mark Siewers / Gerben Silvis / Eelco Uri / Harry van der Meer / Arie van de Bunt
10 Australia AUS 3 0 5
Gavin Aubrey / Sean Boyd / Trent Franklin / Toby Jenkins / Andriy Kovalenko / Ryan Moody / Tim Neesham / Rafael Sterk / Nathan Thomas / Peter Tresise / Laurie Trettel / Thomas Whalan / Gavin Woods
11 Slovakia SVK 2 0 6
Karol Bačo / Sergej Charin / Milan Cipov / Štefan Gergely / Michal Gogola / Gejza Gyurcsi / Jozef Hrošík / Róbert Káid / Martin Mravík / Peter Nižný / Roman Poláčik / Peter Veszelits / Juraj Zaťovič
12 Kazakhstan KAZ 2 0 6
Sergey Drozdov / Aleksandr Gaydukov / Sergey Gorovoy / Yevgeny Prokhin / Artemy Sevostyanov / Sergey Sevostyanov / Aleksandr Shvedov / Yury Smolovoy / Igor Zagoruyko / Ivan Zaytsev / Yevgeny Zhilyayev / Aleksandr Kzvob / Dmitry Kapustin
13 Brazil BRA 2 1 3
Yansel Galindo / Marcelinho das Chagas / George Chaia / André Luiz Cordeiro / Rodrigo dos Santos / Vicente Henriques / Leandro Machado / Daniel Mameri / Felipe Perrone / Kiko Perrone / André Raposo / Roberto Seabra / Michel Vieira
14 Germany GER 2 2 2
Steffen Dierolf / Tilo Kaiser / Björn Kohle / Tobias Kreuzmann / Sören Mackeben / Jens Pohlmann / Daniele Polverino / Timo Purschke / Thomas Schertwitis / Alexander Tchigir / Patrick Weissinger / Tim Wollthan / Michael Zellmer
15 Canada CAN 1 1 4
David Allan / Ted Bader / Mark Block / Vladimir Cosic / Adam Deffett / Mike Gordon / Dusan Lazarevic / Thomas Marks / Nathaniel Miller / Noah Miller / Mike Sabo / Andrey Shevstov / Alexandre Thibeault
16 Japan JPN 0 0 6
Kan Aoyagi / Takuya Endo / Tomohiro Kawaguchi / Masahiro Mizutani / Atsushi Naganuma / Satoshi Nagata / Daisuke Nakagawa / Taisuke Oya / Kenichi Sato / Taichi Sato / Koji Tanaka / Masakazu Yamamoto / Fumikazu Kubota

Preliminary Round

Group A

Standings

Pos Team Wins Ties Losses Points
1 Italy ITA 2 1 0 5
2 Serbia and Montenegro SCG 2 1 0 5
3 Slovakia SVK 1 0 2 2
4 Brazil BRA 0 0 3 0

Matches

Serbia and Montenegro SCG 7-6 Slovakia SVK
Italy ITA 6-1 Brazil BRA
Serbia and Montenegro SCG 3-3 Italy ITA
Slovakia SVK 8-5 Brazil BRA
Serbia and Montenegro SCG 13-5 Brazil BRA
Italy ITA 11-5 Slovakia SVK

Group B

Standings

Pos Team Wins Ties Losses Points
1 Hungary HUN 3 0 0 6
2 Greece GRE 1 0 2 2
3 Kazakhstan KAZ 1 0 2 2
4 Germany GER 1 0 2 2

Matches

Hungary HUN 7-3 Kazakhstan KAZ
Greece GRE 8-9 Germany GER
Hungary HUN 11-10 Greece GRE
Kazakhstan KAZ 6-4 Germany GER
Hungary HUN 14-7 Germany GER
Greece GRE 5-4 Kazakhstan KAZ

Group C

Standings

Pos Team Wins Ties Losses Points
1 Russia RUS 3 0 0 6
2 Netherlands NED 2 0 1 4
3 United States USA 1 0 2 2
4 Canada CAN 0 0 3 0

Matches

Russia RUS 10-9 United States USA
Netherlands NED 10-4 Canada CAN
Russia RUS 9-7 Netherlands NED
United States USA 6-3 Canada CAN
Russia RUS 14-6 Canada CAN
United States USA 5-6 Netherlands NED

Group D

Standings

Pos Team Wins Ties Losses Points
1 Spain ESP 3 0 0 6
2 Croatia CRO 2 0 1 4
3 Australia AUS 1 0 2 2
4 Japan JPN 0 0 3 0

Matches

Spain ESP 8-1 Australia AUS
Croatia CRO 8-2 Japan JPN
Spain ESP 12-1 Japan JPN
Croatia CRO 8-6 Australia AUS
Spain ESP 6-4 Croatia CRO
Australia AUS 6-5 Japan JPN

Round 2

Group E

Standings

Pos Team Wins Ties Losses Points
1 Serbia and Montenegro SCG 4 1 0 9
2 Italy ITA 3 1 1 7
3 Hungary HUN 3 0 2 6
4 Greece GRE 3 0 2 6
5 Kazakhstan KAZ 1 0 4 2
6 Slovakia SVK 0 0 5 0

Matches

Serbia and Montenegro SCG 4-3 Greece GRE
Italy ITA 13-3 Kazakhstan KAZ
Hungary HUN 9-8 Slovakia SVK
Serbia and Montenegro SCG 8-7 Hungary HUN
Italy ITA 7-8 Greece GRE
Slovakia SVK 7-10 Kazakhstan KAZ
Serbia and Montenegro SCG 16-6 Kazakhstan KAZ
Italy ITA 3-2 Hungary HUN
Greece GRE 4-2 Slovakia SVK

Group F

Standings

Pos Team Wins Ties Losses Points
1 Spain ESP 5 0 0 10
2 Russia RUS 4 0 1 8
3 Croatia CRO 3 0 2 6
4 United States USA 1 0 4 2
5 Australia AUS 1 0 4 2
6 Netherlands NED 1 0 4 2

Matches

Spain ESP 10-4 United States USA
Russia RUS 7-4 Australia AUS
Croatia CRO 12-3 Netherlands NED
Spain ESP 10-5 Netherlands NED
Russia RUS 8-7 Croatia CRO
United States USA 6-5 Australia AUS
Spain ESP 9-8 Russia RUS
United States USA 5-11 Croatia CRO
Netherlands NED 5-6 Australia AUS

Classification Round

Standings

Pos Team Wins Ties Losses Points
13 Brazil BRA 2 1 0 5
14 Germany GER 1 2 0 4
15 Canada CAN 1 1 1 3
16 Japan JPN 0 0 3 0

Matches

Brazil BRA 13-6 Japan JPN
Germany GER 6-6 Canada CAN
Brazil BRA 5-5 Germany GER
Canada CAN 12-9 Japan JPN
Brazil BRA 10-3 Canada CAN
Germany GER 10-6 Japan JPN

Semi-Finals

Spain ESP 4-2 Italy ITA
Serbia and Montenegro SCG 9-8 Russia RUS
Hungary HUN 9-7 United States USA
Greece GRE 12-11 Croatia CRO
Netherlands NED 9-5 Kazakhstan KAZ
Australia AUS 7-6 Slovakia SVK

Finals

Spain ESP 4-2 Serbia and Montenegro SCG
Russia RUS 7-6 Italy ITA
Hungary HUN 8-5 Greece GRE
United States USA 10-9 Croatia CRO
Netherlands NED 8-3 Australia AUS
Slovakia SVK 12-6 Kazakhstan KAZ