Water polo at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships – Men's tournament

Water polo at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships – Men's tournament
Tournament details
Venue(s)	Japan (in Fukuoka host cities)
Dates	19 – 29 July
Teams	16 (from 4 confederations)
Final positions
Champions	Spain (2nd title)
Runners-up	Yugoslavia
Third place	Russia
Fourth place	Italy
Tournament statistics
Matches played	60
Goals scored	822 (13.7 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Aleksandar Šapić; (18 goals)

The 2001 Men's World Water Polo Championship was the ninth edition of the men's water polo tournament at the World Aquatics Championships, organised by the world governing body in aquatics, the FINA. The tournament was held from 19 to 29 July 2001, and was incorporated into the 2001 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.^[1]

Participating teams

Americas	Asia	Europe	Oceania
Brazil Canada United States	Kazakhstan Japan	Croatia Germany Greece Hungary Italy Netherlands Russia Slovakia Spain Yugoslavia	Australia

Groups formed

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Squads

Preliminary round

	Qualified for the Second round
	Will play for places 13–16 in a round robin group. (Group G)

Group A

Pos	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	Italy	5	3	2	1	0	20	9	+11
2	Yugoslavia	5	3	2	1	0	23	14	+9
3	Slovakia	2	3	1	0	2	19	23	−4
4	Brazil	0	3	0	0	3	11	27	−16

Source:

July 19, 2001


Slovakia	6 – 7	Yugoslavia
Italy	6 – 1	Brazil

July 21, 2001


Yugoslavia	3 – 3	Italy
Slovakia	8 – 5	Brazil

July 22, 2001


Yugoslavia	13 – 5	Brazil
Slovakia	5 – 11	Italy

Group B

Pos	Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD
1	Hungary	6	3	3	0	32	20	+12
2	Greece	2	3	1	2	23	24	−1
3	Kazakhstan	2	3	1	2	13	16	−3
4	Germany	2	3	1	2	20	28	−8

Source:

July 19, 2001


Germany	9 – 8	Greece
Hungary	7 – 3	Kazakhstan

July 21, 2001


Greece	10 – 11	Hungary
Germany	4 – 6	Kazakhstan

July 22, 2001


Greece	5 – 4	Kazakhstan
Germany	7 – 14	Hungary

Group C

Pos	Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD
1	Russia	6	3	3	0	33	22	+11
2	Netherlands	4	3	2	1	23	18	+5
3	United States	2	3	1	2	20	19	+1
4	Canada	0	3	0	3	13	30	−17

Source:

July 19, 2001


United States	9 – 10	Russia
Netherlands	10 – 4	Canada

July 21, 2001


United States	6 – 3	Canada
Russia	9 – 7	Netherlands

July 22, 2001


Russia	14 – 6	Canada
United States	5 – 6	Netherlands

Group D

Pos	Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD
1	Spain	6	3	3	0	26	6	+20
2	Croatia	4	3	2	1	20	14	+6
3	Australia	2	3	1	2	13	21	−8
4	Japan	0	3	0	3	8	26	−18

Source:

July 19, 2001


Croatia	8 – 2	Japan
Spain	8 – 1	Australia

July 21, 2001


Croatia	8 – 6	Australia
Japan	1 – 12	Spain

July 22, 2001


Japan	5 – 6	Australia
Croatia	4 – 6	Spain

Second round

	Qualified for the Semi finals
	Will play for places 5–8 in a Knockout system
	Will play for places 9–12 in a Knockout system

Group E

Pos	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	Yugoslavia	9	5	4	1	0	38	25	+13
2	Italy	7	5	3	1	1	37	21	+16
3	Hungary	6	5	3	0	2	36	32	+4
4	Greece	6	5	3	0	2	30	28	+2
5	Kazakhstan	2	5	1	0	4	26	48	−22
6	Slovakia	0	5	0	0	5	28	41	−13

Source:

Preliminary round results apply.

July 24, 2001


Italy	13 – 3	Kazakhstan
Slovakia	8 – 9	Hungary
Yugoslavia	4 – 3	Greece

July 25, 2001


Yugoslavia	8 – 7	Hungary
Slovakia	7 – 10	Kazakhstan
Italy	7 – 8	Greece

July 26, 2001


Slovakia	2 – 4	Greece
Yugoslavia	16 – 6	Kazakhstan
Italy	3 – 2	Hungary

Group F

Pos	Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD
1	Spain	10	5	5	0	43	22	+21
2	Russia	8	5	4	1	43	35	+8
3	Croatia	6	5	3	2	42	28	+14
4	United States	2	5	1	4	29	42	−13
5	Australia	2	5	1	4	21	35	−14
6	Netherlands	2	5	1	4	26	42	−16

Source:

Preliminary round results apply.

July 24, 2001


Russia	8 – 3	Australia
United States	4 – 10	Spain
Netherlands	3 – 12	Croatia

July 25, 2001


Netherlands	5 – 10	Spain
United States	6 – 5	Australia
Russia	8 – 7	Croatia

July 26, 2001


United States	5 – 11	Croatia
Netherlands	5 – 6	Australia
Russia	8 – 9	Spain

Group G

Pos	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
13	Brazil	5	3	2	1	0	28	14	+14
14	Germany	4	3	1	2	0	21	17	+4
15	Canada	3	3	1	1	1	21	25	−4
16	Japan	0	3	0	0	3	21	35	−14

Source:

July 24, 2001


Germany	6 – 6	Canada
Brazil	13 – 6	Japan

July 25, 2001


Brazil	5 – 5	Germany
Canada	12 – 9	Japan

July 26, 2001


Germany	10 – 6	Japan
Brazil	10 – 3	Canada

Final round

9th-12th place

9th - 12th place		9th place

2001-07-28 – Fukuoka

Slovakia	6
		2001-07-29 – Fukuoka
Australia	7
		Australia	3
2001-07-28 – Fukuoka
		Netherlands	8
Kazakhstan	5

Netherlands	9
		11th place

		2001-07-29 – Fukuoka

		Slovakia	12

		Kazakhstan	6

July 28, 2001


Slovakia	6 – 7	Australia
Kazakhstan	5 – 9	Netherlands

July 29, 2001 — 9th place


Australia	3 – 8	Netherlands

July 29, 2001 — 11th place


Slovakia	12 – 6	Kazakhstan

5th-8th place

5th - 8th place		5th place

2001-07-28 – Fukuoka

Greece	12
		2001-07-29 – Fukuoka
Croatia	11
		Greece	5
2001-07-28 – Fukuoka
		Hungary	8
Hungary	9

United States	7
		7th place

		2001-07-29 – Fukuoka

		Croatia	9

		United States	10

July 28, 2001


Greece	12 – 11	Croatia
Hungary	9 – 7	United States

July 29, 2001 — 5th place


Greece	5 – 8	Hungary

July 29, 2001 — 7th place


Croatia	9 – 10	United States

1st-4th place

Semi-finals		Final

July 28, 2001 – Fukuoka

Spain	4
		July 29, 2001 – Fukuoka
Italy	2
		Spain	4
July 28, 2001 – Fukuoka
		Yugoslavia	2
Yugoslavia	9

Russia	8
		Third place

		July 29, 2001 – Fukuoka

		Russia	7

		Italy	6

Semi finals

July 28, 2001


Spain	4 – 2	Italy
Yugoslavia	9 – 8	Russia

Finals

July 29, 2001 — Bronze Medal Match


Russia	7 – 6	Italy

July 29, 2001 — Gold Medal Match


Spain	4 – 2	Yugoslavia

Final ranking

RANK^[1]	TEAM
	Spain
	Yugoslavia
	Russia
4.	Italy
5.	Hungary
6.	Greece
7.	United States
8.	Croatia
9.	Netherlands
10.	Australia
11.	Slovakia
12.	Kazakhstan
13.	Brazil
14.	Germany
15.	Canada
16.	Japan

2001 FINA Men's World champions
Spain Second title

Team roster ^[1]

Angel Andreo, Daniel Ballart, Salvador Gomez, Gabriel Hernandez, Gustavo Marcos, Guillermo Molina, Daniel Moro, Ivan Moro, Sergi Pedrerol, Ivan Perez, Jesus Rollan, Javier Sánchez, Carlos Sanz
Head coach: Juan Jané

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Spain ^[1] Angel Andreo Daniel Ballart Salvador Gomez Gabriel Hernandez Gustavo Marcos Guillermo Molina Daniel Moro Ivan Moro Sergi Pedrerol Ivan Perez Jesus Rollan Javier Sánchez Carlos Sanz Head coach: Juan Jané	Yugoslavia Aleksandar Ćirić Danilo Ikodinović Viktor Jelenić Branko Peković Dejan Savić Aleksandar Šapić Denis Šefik Aleksandar Šoštar Petar Trbojević Veljko Uskoković Vladimir Vujasinović (c) Nenad Vukanić Predrag Zimonjić Head coach: Nenad Manojlović	Russia Ilya Smirnov Yuri Yatsev Aleksandr Fyodorov Nikolay Kozlov Roman Balashov Aleksandr Yeryshov Revaz Chomakhidze Alexey Panfili Dmitry Gorshkov (c) Marat Zakirov Sergey Garbuzov Irek Zinnurov Andrei Rekechinski Head coach: Aleksandr Kabanov

Individual awards

Best Goalkeeper

Jesús Rollán (ESP)

Topscorer

Aleksandar Šapić (SCG) — 18 goals

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "HistoFINA – Water polo medalists and statistics" (PDF). fina.org. FINA. September 2019. p. 14. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.

External links

9th FINA World Championships 2001 FINA Water Polo website
Men Water Polo World Championship 2001 Fukuoka www.todor66.com

[HistoFINA_PDF-1] "HistoFINA – Water polo medalists and statistics" (PDF). fina.org. FINA. September 2019. p. 14. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.

[1]