Water polo world championships 2005

The 2005 World Water Polo Championships took place as part of the 2005 World Swimming Championships in Montreal . The total of 96 games, 48 ​​each for men and women, were played in the Pavillon des Baigneurs on Île Sainte-Hélène .

At these championships, the new rules that came into force on October 1, 2005 were successfully tested by FINA .

Men

16 teams took part in the men's competition.

Group A

game schedule

South Africa	-	Russia	07: 11
Spain	-	Italy	07: 05
South Africa	-	Spain	04: 11
Italy	-	Russia	04: 05
Spain	-	Russia	07: 08
South Africa	-	Italy	04:15

table

RF	team	Sp	Sg	U.N	NL	Gates	TD	Pts.
1	Russia	3	3	0	0	24:18	+6	6th
2	Spain	3	2	0	1	25:17	+8	4th
3	Italy	3	1	0	2	24:16	+8	2
4th	South Africa	3	0	0	3	15:37	−22	0

Group B

game schedule

United States	-	Japan	07: 04
Cuba	-	Serbia-Montenegro	01: 21
Serbia-Montenegro	-	Japan	17: 05
United States	-	Cuba	13: 06
Cuba	-	Japan	09: 08
United States	-	Serbia-Montenegro	04: 08

table

RF	team	Sp	Sg	U.N	NL	Gates	TD	Pts.
1	Serbia and Montenegro	3	3	0	0	46:10	+36	6th
2	United States	3	2	0	1	24:18	+6	4th
3	Cuba	3	1	0	2	16:42	−26	2
4th	Japan	3	0	0	3	17:33	−16	0

Group C

game schedule

Romania	-	Hungary	04:14
Croatia	-	Canada	19: 04
Croatia	-	Romania	06: 04
Hungary	-	Canada	11: 03
Croatia	-	Hungary	04:10
Romania	-	Canada	10: 02

table

RF	team	Sp	Sg	U.N	NL	Gates	TD	Pts.
1	Hungary	3	3	0	0	35:11	+24	6th
2	Croatia	3	2	0	1	29:18	+11	4th
3	Romania	3	1	0	2	18:22	−4	2
4th	Canada	3	0	0	3	9:40	−31	0

Group D

game schedule

China	-	Greece	04: 11
Australia	-	Germany	08: 09
Germany	-	Greece	04: 08
China	-	Australia	06: 11
China	-	Germany	06: 11
Australia	-	Greece	08:10

table

RF	team	Sp	Sg	U.N	NL	Gates	TD	Pts.
1	Greece	3	3	0	0	29:16	+13	6th
2	Germany	3	2	0	1	24:22	+2	4th
3	Australia	3	1	0	2	27:25	+2	2
4th	People's Republic of China	3	0	0	3	16:33	−17	0

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Placement games (13-16th place)

The last placed in the group games now played for 13th to 16th place.

Before the placement games, the matches were played. Then the two winners played for 13th place and the losers for 15th place.

qualification
South Africa	-	Japan	08: 13
Canada	-	China	11: 05
Play for 15th place
South Africa	-	China	07: 06
Game for 13th place
Japan	-	Canada	08:10

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Qualification to the quarterfinals

The qualification was carried out by the runners-up and thirds.

Spain	-	Cuba	17: 02
Italy	-	United States	06: 05
Croatia	-	Australia	10: 06
Romania	-	Germany	06: 05

This means that the winners of the matches have qualified for the quarter-finals. The losers are now playing for ninth to twelfth place.

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Placement games (9-12th place)

The encounters were played among the losers in the quarter-finals qualification. The losers of these games play for 11th place, the winners for 9th place.

qualification
Cuba	-	Australia	03: 16
United States	-	Germany	03: 05
Game for 11th place
Cuba	-	United States	06:10
Play for 9th place
Australia	-	Germany	05: 11

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Quarter finals

The first in the group, who qualified directly, and the winners of the quarter-finals, who qualified indirectly, played here.

Russia	-	Croatia	04: 06
Serbia-Montenegro	-	Romania	10: 08
Hungary	-	Spain	08: 04
Greece	-	Italy	13: 09

The winners of the matches have thus qualified for the semi-finals. The losers are now playing for places five to eight.

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Placement games (place 5-8)

The matches were played among the losers of the quarter-finals. The losers of these games play for 7th place, the winners for 5th place.

qualification
Russia	-	Romania	07: 11
Spain	-	Italy	07: 04
Game for 7th place
Russia	-	Italy	07: 06
Play for 5th place
Romania	-	Spain	07: 08

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Semifinals

This was carried out by the winners of the quarter-finals.

Croatia	-	Serbia-Montenegro	04: 05
Hungary	-	Greece	07: 06

This means that the two winners of the matches are in the final. The losers are now playing for third place.

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Finals

3rd place match
Croatia	-	Greece	10: 11
final
Serbia-Montenegro	-	Hungary	08: 07

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Placement table

space	country	Athletes	Trainer
1	Serbia and Montenegro	Vladimir Gojković, Danilo Ikodinović , Nikola Janović, Predrag Jokić, Slobodan Nikić, Zdravko Radić, Aleksandar Šapić , Dejan Savić, Denis Šefik , Petar Trbojević, Vanja Udovičić, Vladimir Vujasinović, Boris Zloković	Petar Porobić
2	Hungary	Péter Biros , István Gergely , Rajmund Fodor , Tamás Kásás , Csaba Kiss , Gergely Kiss , Norbert Madaras , Tamás Molnár , Ádám Steinmetz , Zoltán Szécsi , Márton Szivós , Dániel Varga , Attila Vári	Dénes Kemény
3	Greece	Christos Afroudakis, Georgios Afroudakis, Theodoros Chatzitheodorou, Nikolaos Deligiannis, Dimitrios Mazis, Emmanouil Mylonakis, Georgios Ntoskas, Georgios Reppas, Stefanos-Petros Santa, Anastasios Schizas, Argyris Theodoropoulos, Matthaios Voulgarakios, Antonis	Alessandro Campagna
4th	Croatia	Srđan Antonijević, Miho Bošković, Damir Burić , Andro Bušlje, Teo Đogaš, Nikola Franković, Igor Hinić, Andrija Komadina, Josip Pavić, Boris Pavlović, Tomislav Primorac, Goran Volarević, Tihomil Vranješ	Ratko Rudić
5	Spain	Iñaki Aguilar, Ángel Andreo, Ramón Díaz, Javier García, Gabriel Hernández, David Martín, Guillermo Molina, Sergio Mora, Ivan Pérez, Felipe Perrone, Ricardo Perrone, José Rodríguez, Xavier Vallés	Rafael Aguilar
6th	Romania	Edward Andrei Dina, Florin Bonca, Andrei Busila, Nicolae Diaconu, Gheorghe Dunca, George Georgescu, Andrei Iosep, Kádár Kálmán, Alexandru Matei-Guiman, Florin Musat, Bertini Nenciu, Cosmin Alexandru Radu, Dragos Stoenescu	Vlad Hagiu
7th	Russia	Alexei Agarkow, Roman Balaschow, Roman Dokuschajew, Alexander Fedorow, Juri Jazew, Vitali Jurtschik, Anton Korotajew, Nikolai Koslow, Sergei Lisunow, Egor Rastorgujew, Rewas Schomakidze, Marat Sakirow , Irek Zinnurow	Alexander Kabanov
8th	Italy	Alberto Angelini, Fabio Bencivenga, Leonardo Binchi, Fabrizio Buonocore, Alessandro Calcaterra, Luigi di Costanzo, Maurizio Feluga, Francesco Ferrari, Andrea Mangiante, Francesco Postiglione, Bogdan Rath, Fabio Violetti, Antonio Vittorioso	Pierluigi Formiconi
9	Germany	Steffen Dierolf , Lukasz Kieloch , Tobias Kreuzmann , Alexander Tchigir , Sören Mackeben , Florian Müller , Florian Naroska , Heiko Nossek , Marc Politze , Marko Savic , Thomas Schertwitis , Andreas Schlotterbeck , Michael Zellmer	Hagen tribe
10	Australia	Jamie Beadsworth, Pietro Figlioli, Trent Franklin, Tim Hamill, Toby Jenkins, Robert Maitland, Samuel McGregor, John Neesham, Timothy-Paul Neesham, Adam Richardson, James Stanton, Laurie Trettel, Thomas Whalan	David Neesham
11	United States	Brian Alexander, Anthony Azevedo, Ryan Bailey, Nathaniel Bennett, Brandon Brooks, Shea Buckner, Spencer Dornin, Peter Hudnut, James Krumpholz, Rick Merlo, Jeff Powers, Jesse Smith, Adam Wright	Guy Baker
12	Cuba	Arturo Alvarez, Yoandri Andrade, Ernesto Cisnero, Ernesto Diaz, Ives Gonzalez, Yarbul Gonzalez, Rigel Jimenez, Edgar Lara, Gidnny Lara, Alexander Munoz, Emilio Oms, Carlos Ortega, Nieter Sanchez	Tino Urgelles
13	Canada	Aaron Feltham, Kevin Graham, Clem Hui, Brandon Jung, Iain Lark, Thomas Marks, Nathaniel Miller, Noah Miller, Kevin Mitchell, Jean Sayegh, Daniel Stein, Alexandre Thibeault, Nicolas Youngblud	Dragan Jovanović
14th	Japan	Kan Aoyagi, Tomonaga Eguchi, Hiroshi Hoshiai, Nariaki Kitano, Koji Kobayashi, Atsushi Naganuma, Satoshi Nagata, Hitoshi Oshima, Shiochi Sakamoto, Taichi Sato, Satoshi Shiga, Yoshinori Shiota, Koji Tanaka	Yoji Omoto
15th	South Africa	Ryan Bell, Simon Daley, Rick Diesel, Dwayne Flatscher, Marvyn Kilian, Jean Le Roux, Pierre Le Roux, Bevan Manson, Karl Niehaus, Kevin O'Brien, Alastair Stewart, Brendan Varrie, Duncan Woods	Vladimir Trninić
16	People's Republic of China	Ge Weiqing, Han Zhidong, Li Bin, Li Jun, Liang Zhongxing, Liao Qiuliang, Tan Feihu, Wang Beiming, Wang Yong, Wu Zhiyu, Yu Lijun, Zhai Jiajing, Zhao Jinwen	Li Mingguang

Women

16 teams took part in the women's competition.

Group A

game schedule

Venezuela	-	Cuba	06: 06
Canada	-	Italy	08: 07
Italy	-	Cuba	13: 06
Venezuela	-	Canada	02: 12
Venezuela	-	Italy	05:14
Canada	-	Cuba	10: 05

table

RF	team	Sp	Sg	U.N	NL	Gates	TD	Pts.
1	Canada	3	3	0	0	30:14	+16	6th
2	Italy	3	2	0	1	34:19	+15	4th
3	Cuba	3	0	1	2	17:29	−12	1
4th	Venezuela	3	0	1	2	13:32	−19	1

Group B

game schedule

China	-	Hungary	04:18
Spain	-	United States	06: 06
Hungary	-	United States	09: 08
Spain	-	China	15: 03
China	-	United States	02: 18
Spain	-	Hungary	05: 08

table

RF	team	Sp	Sg	U.N	NL	Gates	TD	Pts.
1	Hungary	3	3	0	0	35:17	+18	6th
2	United States	3	1	1	1	32:17	+15	3
3	Spain	3	1	1	1	26:17	+9	3
4th	People's Republic of China	3	0	0	3	9:51	−42	0

Group C

game schedule

Russia	-	Uzbekistan	18: 00
Greece	-	New Zealand	09: 04
New Zealand	-	Uzbekistan	09: 04
Russia	-	Greece	04: 04
Russia	-	New Zealand	13: 01
Greece	-	Uzbekistan	14: 04

table

RF	team	Sp	Sg	U.N	NL	Gates	TD	Pts.
1	Russia	3	2	1	0	35: 05	+30	5
2	Greece	3	2	1	0	27:12	+15	5
3	New Zealand	3	1	0	2	14:26	−12	2
4th	Uzbekistan	3	0	0	3	8:41	−33	0

Group D

game schedule

Australia	-	Germany	15: 02
Brazil	-	Netherlands	06: 07
Netherlands	-	Germany	06: 07
Australia	-	Brazil	11: 04
Australia	-	Netherlands	09: 02
Brazil	-	Germany	06: 06

table

RF	team	Sp	Sg	U.N	NL	Gates	TD	Pts.
1	Australia	3	3	0	0	35: 08	+27	6th
2	Germany	3	1	1	1	15:27	−12	3
3	Netherlands	3	1	0	2	15:22	−7	2
4th	Brazil	3	0	1	2	16:24	−8	1

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Placement games (13-16th place)

The last placed in the group games now play for 13th to 16th place.

Before the placement games, the matches were played. Then the two winners play for 13th place and the losers for 15th place.

qualification
Venezuela	-	China	08: 07
Uzbekistan	-	Brazil	01: 11
Play for 15th place
China	-	Uzbekistan	04: 05
Game for 13th place
Venezuela	-	Brazil	02: 11

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Qualification to the quarterfinals

This was carried out by the runners-up and thirds in the group.

Italy	-	Spain	09: 06
Cuba	-	United States	03: 14
Greece	-	Netherlands	07: 04
New Zealand	-	Germany	01: 02

This means that the winners of the matches have qualified for the quarter-finals. The losers are now playing for ninth to twelfth place.

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Placement games (9-12th place)

The encounters were played among the losers in the quarter-finals qualification. The losers of these games play for 11th place, the winners for 9th place.

qualification
Spain	-	Netherlands	03: 04
Cuba	-	New Zealand	05: 04
Game for 11th place
Spain	-	New Zealand	12: 03
Play for 9th place
Netherlands	-	Cuba	10: 11

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Quarter finals

The first in the group, who qualified directly, and the winners of the quarter-finals, who qualified indirectly, played here.

Hungary	-	Germany	10: 04
Russia	-	Italy	07: 05
Canada	-	Greece	08: 06
Australia	-	United States	05: 08

The winners of the matches have thus qualified for the semi-finals. The losers are now playing for places five to eight.

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Placement games (place 5-8)

The matches were played among the losers of the quarter-finals. The losers of these games play for 7th place, the winners for 5th place.

qualification
Greece	-	Germany	09: 04
Italy	-	Australia	09:10
Game for 7th place
Germany	-	Italy	08:12
Play for 5th place
Greece	-	Australia	10: 08

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Semifinals

This was carried out by the winners of the quarter-finals.

Russia	-	United States	08:10
Canada	-	Hungary	07: 09

This means that the two winners of the matches are in the final. The losers are now playing for third place.

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Finals

3rd place match
Canada	-	Russia	08: 03
final
Hungary	-	United States	10: 07

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Placement table

space	country	Athletes	Trainer
1	Hungary	Tímea Benkő, Fruzsina Brávik, Rita Drávucz, Patrícia Horváth, Anikó Pelle, Krisztina Serfőző, Mercedes Stieber, Orsolya Takács, Dora Testalta, Eszter Tomaskovics, Andrea Tóth, Ágnes Valkai, Krisztina Zantleitner	Tamás Faragó
2	United States	Emily Feher, Erika Figge, Natalie Golda, Jaime Hipp, Kristina Kunkel, Ericka Lorenz, Thalia Munro, Heather Petri, Kelly Rulon, Moriah van Norman, Brenda Villa, Drue Wawrzynski, Lauren Wenger	Heather Moody
3	Canada	Krystina Alogbo, Marie-Luc Arpin, Johanne Bégin, Cora Campbell, Tara Campbell, Valérie Dionne, Ann Dow, Susan Gardiner, Whynter Lamarre, Dominique Perrault, Rachel Riddel, Christine Robinson, Jana Salat	Patrick Oaten
4th	Russia
5	Greece
6th	Australia
7th	Italy
8th	Germany
9	Cuba
10	Netherlands
11	Spain
12	New Zealand
13	Brazil
14th	Venezuela
15th	Uzbekistan
16	People's Republic of China

Web links

• World association FINA
• DSV - German Swimming Association
• Omega Timing Results