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.
Participating teams Americas Asia Europe Oceania
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
July 19, 2001 6 – 7 6 – 1
July 21, 2001 3 – 3 8 – 5
July 22, 2001 13 – 5 5 – 11
Group B
July 19, 2001 9 – 8 7 – 3
July 21, 2001 10 – 11 4 – 6
July 22, 2001 5 – 4 7 – 14
Group C
July 19, 2001 9 – 10 10 – 4
July 21, 2001 6 – 3 9 – 7
July 22, 2001 14 – 6 5 – 6
Group D
July 19, 2001 8 – 2 8 – 1
July 21, 2001 8 – 6 1 – 12
July 22, 2001 5 – 6 4 – 6
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
Preliminary round results apply.
July 24, 2001 13 – 3 8 – 9 4 – 3
July 25, 2001 8 – 7 7 – 10 7 – 8
July 26, 2001 2 – 4 16 – 6 3 – 2
Group F
Preliminary round results apply.
July 24, 2001 8 – 3 4 – 10 3 – 12
July 25, 2001 5 – 10 6 – 5 8 – 7
July 26, 2001 5 – 11 5 – 6 8 – 9
Group G
July 24, 2001 6 – 6 13 – 6
July 25, 2001 5 – 5 12 – 9
July 26, 2001 10 – 6 10 – 3
Final round
9th-12th place
July 28, 2001 6 – 7 5 – 9 July 29, 2001 — 9th place 3 – 8
July 29, 2001 — 11th place 12 – 6 5th-8th place
July 28, 2001 12 – 11 9 – 7
July 29, 2001 — 5th place 5 – 8 July 29, 2001 — 7th place 9 – 10 1st-4th place
Semi finals July 28, 2001 4 – 2 9 – 8
Finals July 29, 2001 — Bronze Medal Match 7 – 6
July 29, 2001 — Gold Medal Match 4 – 2
Final ranking
RANKTEAM 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.
Team roster 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 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 ZimonjićHead coach: Nenad Manojlović 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 RekechinskiHead coach: Aleksandr Kabanov
Individual awards Best Goalkeeper
Topscorer — 18 goals
References
External links 9th FINA World Championships 2001 FINA Water Polo website Men Water Polo World Championship 2001 Fukuoka www.todor66.com