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

The 2001 FINA Men's World Water Polo Championship was the ninth edition of the event, organised by the world's governing body in aquatics, the FINA. The tournament was held from July 19 to July 29, 2001 and incorporated in the 2001 World Aquatics Championships, held in Fukuoka, Japan.

Qualification

Teams

Group A  Brazil  Italy  Slovakia  Yugoslavia

Group B  Germany  Greece  Hungary  Kazakhstan

Group C  Canada  Netherlands  Russia  United States

Group D  Australia  Croatia  Japan  Spain

Squads

Preliminary round

Group A

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Italy	5	3	2	1	0	20	9	+11
2.	Yugoslavia	5	3	2	1	0	23	14	+9
3.	Slovakia	2	3	1	0	2	19	24	–5
4.	Brazil	0	3	0	0	3	11	27	–16

Group B

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Hungary	6	3	3	0	0	32	20	+12
2.	Greece	2	3	1	0	2	23	24	–1
3.	Kazakhstan	2	3	1	0	2	13	16	–3
4.	Germany	2	3	1	0	2	20	28	–8

Group C

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Russia	6	3	3	0	0	33	22	+11
2.	Netherlands	4	3	2	0	1	23	18	+5
3.	United States	2	3	1	0	2	20	19	+1
4.	Canada	0	3	0	0	3	13	30	–17

Group D

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Spain	6	3	3	0	0	26	6	+20
2.	Croatia	4	3	2	0	1	20	14	+6
3.	Australia	2	3	1	0	2	13	21	–8
4.	Japan	0	3	0	0	3	8	26	–18

Second round

Group E

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Yugoslavia	9	5	4	1	0	38	25	+13
2.	Italy	7	5	3	1	1	37	21	+16
3.	Hungary	6	5	3	0	2	36	32	+4
4.	Greece	6	5	3	0	2	30	28	+2
5.	Kazakhstan	2	5	1	0	4	26	48	–22
6.	Slovakia	0	5	0	0	5	28	41	–13

Group F

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Spain	10	5	5	0	0	43	22	+21
2.	Russia	8	5	4	0	1	43	35	+8
3.	Croatia	6	5	3	0	2	42	28	+14
4.	United States	2	5	1	0	4	29	42	–13
5.	Australia	2	5	1	0	4	21	35	–14
6.	Netherlands	2	5	1	0	4	26	42	–16

Semi finals

• July 28, 2001

Spain	4 – 2	Italy
Yugoslavia	9 – 8	Russia

Finals

• July 29, 2001 — Bronze Medal Match

Russia	7 – 6	Italy

• July 29, 2001 — Gold Medal Match

Spain	4 – 2	Yugoslavia

Final ranking

RANK TEAM  Spain  Yugoslavia  Russia 4.  Italy 5.  Hungary 6.  Greece 7.  United States 8.  Croatia 9.  Netherlands 10.  Australia 11.  Slovakia 12.  Kazakhstan 13.  Brazil 14.  Germany 15.  Canada 16.  Japan

2001 FINA Men's World Champions  Spain Second title

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Spain [1] Angel Andreo Daniel Ballart Salvador Gomez Gabriel Hernandez Gustavo Marcos Guillermo Molina Daniel Moro Ivan Moro Sergi Pedrerol Ivan Perez Jesus Rollan Javier Sanchez-Toril Carlos Sanz	Yugoslavia Aleksandar Ćirić Danilo Ikodinović Viktor Jelenić Branko Peković Dejan Savić Aleksandar Šapić Denis Šefik Aleksandar Šoštar Petar Trbojević Veljko Uskoković Vladimir Vujasinović Nenad Vukanić Predrag Zimonjić	Russia

Individual awards

• Most Valuable Player

• Best Goalkeeper

Jesús Miguel Rollán

• Topscorer

References

1. "HistoFINA, Volume III: Medallists & Statistics, Special Water Polo, Before 2008 Season" (PDF). FINA.org (2007/2008 ed.). 2007. Retrieved 12 August 2014.

• Results