2002 FINA Men's Water Polo World League

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2002 FINA Men's Water Polo World League
League FINA Water Polo World League
Sport Water Polo
Duration28 June – 4 August 2002
Number of teams8
League championsFlag of Russia.svg  Russia
FINA Men's Water Polo World League seasons

The 2002 FINA Men's Water Polo World League was the first edition of the annual event, organised by the world's governing body in aquatics, the FINA. After two preliminary rounds, the Super Final was held in Patras, Greece from 1 August to 4 August 2002. [1]

Contents

Preliminary round

    Team qualifies for Super Final
    Team is eliminated from qualification

Group A

Greece automatically qualified for the Super Final as the host country. Only the top place earned qualification, which was taken by Spain. Three points were awarded for a win and one point for a loss.

TeamGWLGFGADiffPoints
1Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 1210213497+3753
2Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 129312789+3849
3Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 125797115−1844
4Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 1201271128−57-7

Group B

The top two places, occupied by Hungary and Russia, earned qualification. Three points were awarded for a win and one point for a loss.

TeamGWLGFGADiffPoints
1Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1211115094+5634
2Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 1275102103−126
3Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1248109131−2220
4Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia 12210106139−3316

Super Final

Group stage

The top two placed teams in the round-robin advanced to the final against each other, while the two bottom placed teams played for the bronze medal. The Russia–Hungary game was declared a 0–5 loss for both teams. Three points were awarded for a win, one point for a loss.

    Team qualifies for final
    Team plays for bronze medal
RankTeamGWLGFGADiffPoints
1Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 3212519+67
2Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 3213028+27
3Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 3122519+65
4Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 3031438−243

Bronze medal match

Hungary  Flag of Hungary.svg13 – 6Flag of Greece.svg  Greece

Gold medal match

Russia  Flag of Russia.svg10 – 8Flag of Spain.svg  Spain

Final rankings

Individual awards

RankTop scorersGoals
1Flag of Spain.svg  Gabriel Hernández Paz  (ESP)34
Flag of Hungary.svg  Tibor Benedek  (HUN)
3Flag of Hungary.svg  Tamás Molnár  (HUN)33
4Flag of Hungary.svg  Gergely Kiss  (HUN)32
5Flag of Russia.svg  Alexander Yerishev  (RUS)30
6Flag of the United States.svg  Tony Azevedo  (USA)29
Flag of Russia.svg  Dmitri Stratan  (RUS)

Statistics

References

  1. 1 2 "HistoFINA – Water polo medalists and statistics" (PDF). fina.org. FINA. September 2019. p. 40. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.