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

2001 World Water Polo Championship
2001 World Water Polo Championship
9th FINA World Aquatics Championships
Location	Japan
Date(s)	18–27 July
Category	2001 World Aquatics Championships
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The 2001 Women's World Water Polo Championship was the fifth edition of the women's water polo tournament at the World Aquatics Championships, organised by the world governing body in aquatics, the FINA. The tournament was held from 18 to 27 July 2001 in the Nishi Civic Pool, and was incorporated into the 2001 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.^[1]

The draw for the water polo tournament took place on 16 April 2001 in Fukuoka. Prior to the start of the competition, Australia were ranked number one in the world.

Teams

Group A

Group B

Preliminary round

Group A

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	United States	9	5	4	1	0	50	16	+34
2.	Russia	8	5	4	0	1	55	17	+38
3.	Italy	7	5	3	1	1	58	35	+22
4.	Kazakhstan	4	5	2	0	3	30	39	–9
5.	Brazil	2	5	1	0	4	22	51	–29
6.	New Zealand	0	5	0	0	5	16	73	–57

Group B

	Team	Points	G	W	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Hungary	10	5	5	0	35	19	+16
2.	Australia	6	5	3	2	32	22	+10
3.	Canada	6	5	3	2	28	23	+5
4.	Greece	6	5	3	2	28	27	+1
5.	Netherlands	2	5	1	4	21	34	–13
6.	Japan	0	5	0	5	19	38	–19

Final round

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final

July 25 – Fukuoka

United States	10
		July 26 – Fukuoka
Greece	3
		United States	6
July 25 – Fukuoka
		Italy	8
Italy	4
				July 27 – Fukuoka
Australia	1
				Italy	7
July 25 – Fukuoka
				Hungary	3
Russia	8
		July 26 – Fukuoka
Canada	9
		Canada	3
July 25 – Fukuoka
		Hungary	4	Third place
Kazakhstan	5
				July 27 – Fukuoka
Hungary	12
				United States	5

				Canada	6

Final ranking

RANK^[1]	TEAM
	Italy
	Hungary
	Canada
4.	United States
5.	Australia
6.	Russia
7.	Greece
8.	Kazakhstan
9.	Netherlands
10.	Brazil
11.	Japan
12.	New Zealand

2001 FINA Women's World champion
Italy Second title

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Italy ^[1] Carmella Alluci Alexandra Araujo Silvia Bosurgi Cristina Consoli Francesca Conti Tania Di Mario Melania Grego Giusi Malato Martina Miceli Maddalena Musumeci Paola Sabbatini Gabriella Sciolti Monica Vaillant	Hungary	Canada

Individual awards

Most Valuable Player

???

Best Goalkeeper

???

Topscorer

???

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "HistoFINA – Water polo medalists and statistics" (PDF). fina.org. FINA. September 2019. p. 57. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.

FINA Results

[HistoFINA_PDF-1] "HistoFINA – Water polo medalists and statistics" (PDF). fina.org. FINA. September 2019. p. 57. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.

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