Water Polo, Men

Competition 2003 World Aquatics Championships
Venue Barcelona ESP
Held 14 – 26 July 2003
Status Medal
Competitors 205
Countries 16
Pos Athlete(s) Country Wins Ties Losses
🥇 Hungary HUN 5 1 0
Tibor Benedek / Péter Biros / Rajmund Fodor / István Gergely / Tamás Kásás / Gergő Kiss / Norbert Madaras / Tamás Molnár / Barnabás Steinmetz / Zoltán Szécsi / Tamás Varga / Zsolt Varga / Attila Vári
🥈 Italy ITA 5 0 1
Alberto Angelini / Fabio Bencivenga / Fabrizio Buonocore / Alessandro Calcaterra / Roberto Calcaterra / Maurizio Felugo / Goran Fiorentini / Marco Gerini / Andrea Mangiante / Francesco Postiglione / Bogdan Rath / Carlo Silipo / Stefano Tempesti
🥉 Serbia and Montenegro SCG 5 1 1
Aleksandar Ćirić / Vladimir Gojković / Danilo Ikodinović / Viktor Jelenić / Predrag Jokić / Nikola Kuljača / Slobodan Nikić / Aleksandar Šapić / Dejan Savić / Denis Šefik / Vanja Udovičić / Vlada Vujasinović / Boris Zloković
4 Greece GRE 3 0 4
Georgios Afroudakis / Christos Afroudakis / Nikolaos Deligiannis / Theodoros Kalakonas / Theodoros Chatzitheodorou / Konstantinos Loudis / Dimitrios Mazis / Georgios Reppas / Stefanos-Petros Santa / Anastasios Schizas / Argyris Theodoropoulos / Ioannis Thomakos / Antonios Vlontakis
5 Spain ESP 5 0 1
Ángel Luis Andreo / Daniel Ballart / Xavier García / Salvador Gómez / Gabriel Hernández / Gustavo Marcos / Guillermo Molina / Daniel Moro / Iván Moro / Sergio Pedrerol / Iván Pérez / Jesús Miguel Rollán / Javier Sánchez
6 United States USA 3 1 2
Omar Amr / Tony Azevedo / Ryan Bailey / Layne Beaubien / Brandon Brooks / Genai Kerr / Dan Klatt / Brett Ormsby / Jeff Powers / Chris Segesman / Jesse Smith / Wolf Wigo / Adam Wright
7 Australia AUS 3 0 4
Pietro Figlioli / Trent Franklin / Toby Jenkins / Sam McGregor / Ryan Moody / Tim Neesham / Alex Osadchuk / Dean Semmens / James Stanton-French / Rafael Sterk / Nathan Thomas / Thomas Whalan / Gavin Woods
8 Slovakia SVK 2 0 5
Karol Bačo / Tomáš Brúder / Milan Cipov / Mihály Gergely / Michal Gogola / Gejza Gyurcsi / Jozef Hrošík / Mihály Hruška / Róbert Káid / Martin Mravík / Peter Nižný / Peter Veszelits / Juraj Zaťovič
9 Croatia CRO 4 1 1
Samir Barać / Damir Burić / Teo Đogaš / Elvis Fatović / Nikola Franković / Igor Hinić / Vjekoslav Kobešćak / Dubravko Šimenc / Mile Smodlaka / Ratko Štritof / Frano Vićan / Goran Volarević / Tihomil Vranješ
10 Russia RUS 3 0 3
Roman Balashov / Revaz Chomakhidze / Aleksandr Yeryshov / Aleksandr Fedorov / Sergey Garbuzov / Dmitry Gorshkov / Nikolay Kozlov / Nikolay Maksimov / Andrey Rekechinsky / Dmitry Stratan / Yury Yatsev / Marat Zakirov / Irek Zinnurov
11 Germany GER 3 0 3
Steffen Dierolf / Tobias Kreuzmann / Sören Mackeben / Heiko Nossek / Jens Pohlmann / Marc Politze / Timo Purschke / Thomas Schertwitis / Fabian Schroedter / Alexander Tchigir / Patrick Weissinger / Tim Wollthan / Michael Zellmer
12 Romania ROU 1 0 5
Edward Andrei / Ionuţ Angelescu / Florin Bonca / Adrian Crețu / Nicolae Diaconu / Robert Dinu / Robert Fiereşteanu / Andrei Iosep / Ramses Juravle / Kalman Kadar / Florin Muşat / Cosmin Radu / Dragoș Stoenescu
13 Brazil BRA 2 0 3
Fábio Chiquidimo / André Luiz Cordeiro / Yansel Galindo / Vicente Henriques / Alexandre Lopez / Leandro Machado / Daniel Mameri / Felipe Perrone / André Raposo / Gabriel Rocha / Rodrigo dos Santos / Roberto Seabra / Erik Seegerer
14 Canada CAN 1 0 4
David Allan / Vladimir Cosic / Adam Deffett / Aaron Feltham / Mike Gordon / Garrett Head / Iain Lark / Dusan Lazarevic / Thomas Marks / Nathaniel Miller / Noah Miller / Kevin Mitchell / Andrey Shevstov
15 Japan JPN 1 0 4
Kan Aoyagi / Hiroshi Hoshiai / Koji Kobayashi / Hiroyuki Matsubara / Atsushi Naganuma / Satoshi Nagata / Daisuke Nakagawa / Kenichi Sato / Taichi Sato / Yoshinori Shiota / Koji Tanaka / Masakazu Yamamoto
16 China CHN 0 0 5
Ge Weiqing / Han Zhidong / Huang Baochang / Li Jun / Li Wenhua / Liao Qiuliang / Wang Yong / Wang Zahn / Xu Guanghao / Yu Lijun / Zhao Jinwen

Preliminary Round

Group A

Standings

Pos Team Wins Ties Losses Points
1 Hungary HUN 2 1 0 5
2 Croatia CRO 2 1 0 5
3 Romania ROU 1 0 2 2
4 Canada CAN 0 0 3 0

Matches

Hungary HUN 7-7 Croatia CRO
Romania ROU 10-3 Canada CAN
Hungary HUN 9-5 Romania ROU
Croatia CRO 13-3 Canada CAN
Hungary HUN 13-3 Canada CAN
Croatia CRO 12-9 Romania ROU

Group B

Standings

Pos Team Wins Ties Losses Points
1 United States USA 2 1 0 5
2 Serbia and Montenegro SCG 2 1 0 5
3 Australia AUS 1 0 2 2
4 Japan JPN 0 0 3 0

Matches

Serbia and Montenegro SCG 5-5 United States USA
Australia AUS 10-2 Japan JPN
Serbia and Montenegro SCG 7-6 Australia AUS
United States USA 14-4 Japan JPN
Serbia and Montenegro SCG 15-7 Japan JPN
United States USA 13-7 Australia AUS

Group C

Standings

Pos Team Wins Ties Losses Points
1 Italy ITA 3 0 0 6
2 Germany GER 2 0 1 4
3 Greece GRE 1 0 2 2
4 China CHN 0 0 3 0

Matches

Italy ITA 15-4 China CHN
Greece GRE 7-9 Germany GER
Italy ITA 11-8 Germany GER
Greece GRE 17-2 China CHN
Italy ITA 10-5 Greece GRE
Germany GER 10-4 China CHN

Group D

Standings

Pos Team Wins Ties Losses Points
1 Spain ESP 3 0 0 6
2 Russia RUS 2 0 1 4
3 Slovakia SVK 1 0 2 2
4 Brazil BRA 0 0 3 0

Matches

Spain ESP 10-3 Brazil BRA
Slovakia SVK 5-8 Russia RUS
Spain ESP 10-8 Russia RUS
Slovakia SVK 7-4 Brazil BRA
Spain ESP 10-5 Slovakia SVK
Russia RUS 10-3 Brazil BRA

Play-Offs

Serbia and Montenegro SCG 11-3 Romania ROU
Greece GRE 15-14
Penalty Shoot Out
Russia RUS
Australia AUS 10-6 Croatia CRO
Slovakia SVK 7-6 Germany GER

Quarter-Finals

Hungary HUN 13-5 Slovakia SVK
Italy ITA 7-3 Australia AUS
Serbia and Montenegro SCG 7-3 Spain ESP
Greece GRE 4-2 United States USA

Semi-Finals

Hungary HUN 9-8
After Extra Time
Greece GRE
Italy ITA 6-5 Serbia and Montenegro SCG
Spain ESP 10-8 Australia AUS
United States USA 11-5 Slovakia SVK
Croatia CRO 7-3 Germany GER
Russia RUS 9-6 Romania ROU
Brazil BRA 8-6
After Extra Time
China CHN
Canada CAN 6-1 Japan JPN

Finals

Hungary HUN 11-9
After Extra Time
Italy ITA
Serbia and Montenegro SCG 5-3 Greece GRE
Spain ESP 9-7 United States USA
Australia AUS 11-8 Slovakia SVK
Croatia CRO 8-3 Russia RUS
Germany GER 7-6 Romania ROU
Brazil BRA 6-5 Canada CAN
Japan JPN 10-9
After Extra Time
China CHN