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

Dates:	14 – 26 July
Num Teams:	16
Confederations:	4
Venues:	Spain
Cities:	Barcelona
Count:	2
Matches:	48
Goals:	659
Top Scorer:	Aleksandar Šapić
Player:	Roberto Calcaterra
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The 2003 Men's World Water Polo Championship was the tenth 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 14 to 26 July 2003, and was incorporated into the 2003 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, Spain.^[1]

Participating teams

width=13%	Americas	width=13%	Asia	width=13%	Europe	width=13%	Oceania

Groups formed

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Preliminary round

width=10px bgcolor=aaffaa		Qualified for the quarterfinals
width=10px bgcolor=ccffcc		Qualified for the playoff round
width=10px		Will play for places 13–16

Group A

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	align=left		5	3	2	1	0	29	15	+14
2.	align=left		5	3	2	1	0	32	19	+13
3.	align=left		2	3	1	0	2	24	24	0
4.	align=left		0	3	0	0	3	9	36	–27

• July 14, 2003

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align=right		7 – 7	align=left

• July 16, 2003

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align=right		9 – 5	align=left
align=right		3 – 13	align=left

• July 18, 2003

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align=right		3 – 13	align=left
align=right		12 – 9	align=left

Group B

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	align=left		5	3	2	1	0	32	16	+16
2.	align=left		5	3	2	1	0	27	18	+9
3.	align=left		2	3	1	0	2	23	22	+9
4.	align=left		0	3	0	0	3	13	39	–26

• July 14, 2003

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align=right		10 – 2	align=left
align=right		5 – 5	align=left

• July 16, 2003

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align=right		14 – 4	align=left
align=right		6 – 7	align=left

• July 18, 2003

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align=right		7 – 13	align=left
align=right		15 – 7	align=left

Group C

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	align=left		6	3	3	0	0	36	17	+19
2.	align=left		4	3	2	0	1	27	22	+5
3.	align=left		2	3	1	0	2	29	21	+8
4.	align=left		0	3	0	0	3	10	42	–32

• July 14, 2003

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align=right		4 – 15	align=left
align=right		7 – 9	align=left

• July 16, 2003

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align=right		8 – 11	align=left
align=right		2 – 17	align=left

• July 18, 2003

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align=right		4 – 10	align=left
align=right		5 – 10	align=left

Group D

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	align=left		6	3	3	0	0	30	16	+14
2.	align=left		4	3	2	0	1	26	18	+8
3.	align=left		2	3	1	0	2	17	22	–5
4.	align=left		0	3	0	0	3	10	27	–17

• July 14, 2003

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align=right		8 – 5	align=left
align=right		10 – 3	align=left

• July 16, 2003

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align=right		7 – 4	align=left
align=right		10 – 8	align=left

• July 18, 2003

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align=right		10 – 3	align=left
align=right		10 – 5	align=left

Playoff round

• July 20, 2003

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align=right		6 – 10	align=left
align=right		3 – 11	align=left
align=right		6 – 7	align=left
align=right		15 – 14	align=left

Final round

Quarter finals

• July 22, 2003

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align=right		13 – 5	align=left
align=right		2 – 4	align=left
align=right		3 – 7	align=left
align=right		7 – 3	align=left

Semi finals

• July 24, 2003

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align=right		9 – 8	align=left
align=right		5 – 6	align=left

Finals

• July 26, 2003 — Bronze Medal Match

• July 26, 2003 — Gold Medal Match

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13th-16th place

• July 20, 2003

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align=right		8 – 6	align=left

• July 22, 2003

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align=right		10 – 9	align=left
align=right		6 – 5	align=left

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9th-12th place

• July 22, 2003

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align=right		7 – 3	align=left
align=right		9 – 6	align=left

• July 24, 2003

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align=right		7 – 6	align=left
align=right		8 – 3	align=left

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5th-8th place

• July 24, 2003

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align=right		11 – 5	align=left
align=right		10 – 8	align=left

• July 26, 2003

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align=right		8 – 11	align=left
align=right		7 – 9	align=left

Final ranking

Rank	Team
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Team Roster Tibor Benedek, Péter Biros, Rajmund Fodor, István Gergely, Tamás Kásás, Gergely Kiss, Norbert Madaras, Tamás Molnár, Barnabás Steinmetz, Zoltán Szécsi, Tamás Varga, Zsolt Varga, Attila Vári Head coach: Dénes Kemény

Individual awards

• Most Valuable Player

• • Best Goalkeeper

• • Topscorer

External links

• Barcelona 2003 FINA World Championships
• 10th FINA World Championships 2003 FINA Water Polo website
• Men Water Polo X World Championship 2003 Barcelona www.todor66.com

Notes and References

1. mwch. dmy .