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Andrea Dewar (born July 9, 1979) is a Canadian water polo player.
She is a graduate of McGill University in physical therapy, 2001.
She was part of the bronze medal-winning women's water polo team at the 2001 world championships in Fukuoka, Japan, 2003 World Aquatics Championships, [1] [2] and 2003 Pan American Games.
Brenda Villa is an accomplished American water polo player. She is the most decorated athlete in the world of women’s water polo. Villa was named Female Water Polo Player of the Decade for 2000-2009 by the FINA Aquatics World Magazine. She is one of four female players who competed in water polo at four Olympics; and one of two female athletes who won four Olympic medals in water polo. She is a leading goalscorer in Olympic water polo history, with 31 goals. In 2018, she was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame and the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame.
Nicolle Katherine Payne is an American water polo player. The goalkeeper was a member of the US teams that won the silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and the bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
The Australia national women's water polo team represents Australia in women's international water polo competitions and is controlled by Water Polo Australia. It was one of the most successful women's water polo teams in the world. It is currently organised into the Asia/Oceania regional group.
The Canada women's national water polo team represents Canada in women's international water polo competitions and friendly matches. The team is overseen by Water Polo Canada, a member of the Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA). In 1981 the team claimed its first international prize, winning the FINA Water Polo World Cup.
Cláudia Graner is a female water polo goalkeeper from Brazil, who won the bronze medal with the Brazil women's national water polo team at the 1999 Pan American Games, and 2003 Pan American Games.
The Hungary women's national water polo team represents Hungary in international women's water polo competitions and friendly matches. The team is one of the leading teams in Europe since the early 1990s, claiming the world title at the 1994 World Aquatics Championships in Rome, Italy and at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montreal, Canada.
Miho Bošković is a Croatian professional water polo player. He was part of the Croatia national team, that won the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics, as well as gold medals at the 2007 World Championship and 2010 European Championship, and bronze medals at the 2009 and 2011 World Championships.
Glencora McGhie is an Australian water polo centre back/driver. She attended the Curtin University of Technology and is a dental therapist. She competes for the Fremantle Marlins in the National Water Polo League, and was on sides that won the league championship in 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007. She has been a member of the Australia women's national water polo team on the junior and senior level. She has won gold medals at the 2011 Canada Cup and at the 2007 FINA Junior World Championships. She won silver medals at the 2010 FINA World League Super Finals and at the 2010 FINA Women's Water Polo World Cup. She won a bronze medal at the 2009 FINA World League Super Finals. She was part of the Australian water polo team that won bronze at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Anastasios Schizas is a Greek retired water polo player who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics. Schizas was part of the Greece men's national water polo team that won the Bronze Medal in the 2005 World Championship in Montreal and the Bronze Medal in the 2004 World League in Long Beach.
Theodoros "Thodoris" Kalakonas is a Greek water polo player who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics, and in the 2004 Summer Olympics with the Greece men's national water polo team. He was part of the national squad that won the silver medal at the 1997 World Cup in Athens and the Bronze Medal in the 2004 World League in Long Beach.
Antonios "Antonis" Vlontakis is a retired Greek water polo player. A long-standing member of the Greece national water polo team, Vlontakis competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics, the 2004 Summer Olympics, and the 2008 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Greece men's national water polo team that won the Bronze Medal in the 2005 World Championship in Montreal and the Bronze Medal in the 2004 World League in Long Beach.
Nikolaos "Nikos" Deligiannis is a Greek former water polo player who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics, the 2004 Summer Olympics, the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics with the Greece men's national water polo team. He was also part of the Greece national squad who won the Bronze Medal in the 2005 World Championship in Montreal and the Bronze Medal in the 2004 World League in Long Beach.
Ioannis Thomakos is a Greek water polo player who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics, the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics with the Greece men's national water polo team. He was part of the national squad that won the silver medal at the 1997 World Cup in Athens. and the Bronze Medal in the 2004 World League in Long Beach.
Barbara Bujka is a Hungarian female water polo player. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed for the Hungary women's national water polo team in the women's event. She is 5 ft 8.5 inches tall. In 2013–14 season she played for Olympiacos in Greece, winning both the LEN Trophy and the Greek Championship.
Evgeniya Andreyevna Ivanova is a Russian water polo player. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed for the Russian team in the women's event.
Marina Gritsenko was a female water polo player of Kazakhstan.
Veronika Linkova is a Russian water polo player. She participated at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships, and 2001 Women's European Water Polo Championship.
Helen Dacre is a British scientist and athlete. She is currently professor of dynamical meteorology at the University of Reading. Her work on modelling and predicting the path of the Eyjafjallajökull volcanic ash plume was pivotal in the reopening of European airspace in a timely manner. She has previously represented Great Britain in water polo at the European, Commonwealth and World Championships.
Italy competed at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary from 18 June to 3 July. Having clinched the final in men's water polo, for the first time it has won at least one medal in every discipline.
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