Water polo at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships

Water polo at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships was held between 20 June and 3 July 2022.

Water polo at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships
Host cityBudapest, Hungary
Date(s)20 June – 3 July
Venue(s)Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest
Swimming pool Sopron, Debrecen, Szeged
Events2
2019
2023

Schedule

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Two competitions were held.[1]

All time are local (UTC+2).

Date Time Round
20 June 2022 18:00 Preliminary round
21 June 2022
22 June 2022
23 June 2022
24 June 2022
25 June 2022
26 June 2022 09:00 Play-offs/Placement matches
27 June 2022
28 June 2022 14:00 Quarterfinals/Placement matches
29 June 2022
30 June 2022 09:00 Semifinals/Placement matches
1 July 2022
2 July 2022 13:00 Women's finals
3 July 2022 13:00 Men's finals

Qualification

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A total of 16 teams qualified for each tournament.[2]

Event Dates Hosts Quota Qualifier(s)
Host nation 1   Hungary
2020 Summer Olympics 25 July – 8 August 2021   Tokyo 4   Serbia
  Greece
  Spain
  Croatia
2020 FINA World League 26 June – 1 July 2020   Tbilisi 2   Montenegro
  United States
2020 European Championship 14–26 January 2020   Budapest 3   Italy
  Russia
  Germany
  Georgia
2022 Intercontinental Cup
(Americas qualifier)
7–13 March 2022   Lima 2   Canada
  Brazil
2018 Asian Games 16 August – 1 September 2018   Jakarta 2   Kazakhstan
  Japan
African Selection 1   South Africa
Oceanian Selection 1   Australia
Total 16

Russia was excluded due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[3]

Women

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Event Dates Hosts Quota Qualifier(s)
Host nation 1   Hungary
2020 Summer Olympics 24 July – 7 August 2021   Tokyo 4+1   United States
  Spain
  Russia
  Australia
  Netherlands
  Canada
2020 FINA World League 14– 19 June 2020   Athens 0 [note 1]
2020 European Championship 12–25 January 2020   Budapest 3   Italy
  Greece
  France
2022 Intercontinental Cup
(Americas qualifier)
7–13 March 2022   Lima 2   Brazil
  Argentina
2018 Asian Games 16 August – 1 September 2018   Jakarta 2   China
  Japan

  Kazakhstan
  Thailand
African Selection 1   South Africa
Oceanian Selection 1   New Zealand
Wild card[4] 1   Colombia
Total 16

Russia was excluded due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[3]
China and Japan withdrew before the tournament.[4]

  1. ^ With the World League finalists already qualified through the Olympic Rankings, those two spots were re-allocated to the Olympics

Medal summary

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Medal table

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  *   Host nation (Hungary)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Spain1001
  United States1001
3  Hungary0101
  Italy0101
5  Greece0011
  Netherlands0011
Totals (6 entries)2226

Medalists

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men
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  Spain [5]

Unai Aguirre
Alberto Munarriz
Álvaro Granados
Bernat Sanahuja
Miguel de Toro
Marc Larumbe
Martin Famera
Sergi Cabanas
Roger Tahull
Felipe Perrone (c)
Blai Mallarach
Alejandro Bustos
Eduardo Lorrio

Head coach:
David Lozano

  Italy[6]

Marco Del Lungo (c)
Francesco Di Fulvio
Luca Damonte
Matteo Iocchi Gratta
Andrea Fondelli
Giacomo Canella
Luca Marziali
Gonzalo Echenique
Nicholas Presciutti
Lorenzo Bruni
Edoardo Di Somma
Vincenzo Dolce
Gianmarco Nicosia

Head coach:
Alessandro Campagna

  Greece[7]

Manos Zerdevas
Dinos Genidounias
Dimitris Skoumpakis
Stathis Kalogeropoulos
Yiannis Fountoulis (c)
Alexandros Papanastasiou
Giorgos Dervisis
Stelios Argyropoulos
Costas Gouvis
Costas Kakaris
Dimitris Nikolaidis
Angelos Vlachopoulos
Panagiotis Tzortzatos

Head coach:
Thodoris Vlachos


Women
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  United States [8]

Ashleigh Johnson
Madeline Musselman
Tara Prentice
Rachel Fattal
Ava Elizabeth Johnson
Margaret Steffens
Stephania Haralabidis
Ryann Neushul
Denise Mammolito
Kaleigh Gilchrist
Bayley Weber
Jordan Raney
Amanda Longann

Head coach:
Adam Krikorian

  Hungary [9]

Edina Gangl
Dorottya Szilágyi
Vanda Vályi
Gréta Gurisatti
Zsuzsanna Máté
Rebecca Parkes
Geraldine Mahieu
Rita Keszthelyi
Dóra Leimeter
Natasa Rybanska
Kamilla Faragó
Krisztina Garda
Alda Magyari

Head coach:
Attila Biró

  Netherlands [10]

Laura Aarts
Iris Wolves
Brigitte Sleeking
Sabrina van der Sloot
Lola Moolhuijzen
Simone van de Kraats
Rozanne Voorvelt
Vivian Sevenich
Kitty Joustra
Ilse Koolhaas
Maxine Schaap
Nina ten Broek
Sarah Buis

Head coach:
Evangelos Doudesis

References

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  1. ^ Schedule
  2. ^ "Fina World Championships 2022 Budapest, Hungary Qualification and Entries of Competitors" (PDF). www.fina.org. FINA. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Press release – FINA Bureau meets, makes further decisions on Russian and Belarusian athletes and event hosting". fina.org. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  4. ^ a b "Draw for World Championships: Four debutants in Budapest". total-waterpolo.com. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
  5. ^ 19th FINA World Championships 2022 - Budapest - Spain men's team roster Archived 2022-09-27 at the Wayback Machine waterpolo.sportresult.com
  6. ^ 19th FINA World Championships 2022 - Budapest - Italy men's team roster Archived 2022-09-27 at the Wayback Machine waterpolo.sportresult.com
  7. ^ 19th FINA World Championships 2022 - Budapest - Greece men's team roster[dead link] waterpolo.sportresult.com
  8. ^ 19th FINA World Championships 2022 - Budapest - USA women's team roster Archived 2022-10-06 at the Wayback Machine waterpolo.sportresult.com
  9. ^ 19th FINA World Championships 2022 - Budapest - Hungary women's team roster Archived 2022-10-06 at the Wayback Machine waterpolo.sportresult.com
  10. ^ 19th FINA World Championships 2022 - Budapest - Netherland women's team roster Archived 2022-10-06 at the Wayback Machine waterpolo.sportresult.com
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