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2003 World Water Polo Championship
10th FINA World Aquatics Championships
Location	Spain
Date(s)	13–25 July
Category	2003 World Aquatics Championships
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The 2003 Women's World Water Polo Championship was the sixth edition of the women's water polo tournament at the World Aquatics Championships, organised by the world governing body in aquatics, the FINA. The tournament was held from 13 to 25 July 2003, and was incorporated into the 2003 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, Spain.

Hungary, United States, Canada, Russia and Italy qualified for this event by finishing in the top five at the 2002 FINA World Cup in Perth, Australia.

Teams

Squads

Preliminary round

Group A

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Canada	6	3	3	0	0	29	6	+23
2.	Australia	4	3	2	0	1	27	9	+18
3.	Brazil	2	3	1	0	2	14	18	–4
4.	Great Britain	0	3	0	0	3	4	41	–37

• July 13, 2003

Great Britain	1 – 14	Canada
Australia	8 – 1	Brazil

• July 15, 2003

Brazil	2 – 9	Canada
Australia	16 – 2	Great Britain

• July 17, 2003

Great Britain	1 – 11	Brazil
Australia	3 – 6	Canada

Group B

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Netherlands	5	3	2	1	0	41	15	+26
2.	Russia	5	3	2	1	0	44	14	+30
3.	Japan	2	3	1	0	2	19	32	–13
4.	Venezuela	0	3	0	0	3	12	53	–41

• July 13, 2003

Japan	4 – 13	Russia
Netherlands	18 – 4	Venezuela

• July 15, 2003

Venezuela	4 – 23	Russia
Netherlands	15 – 3	Japan

• July 17, 2003

Venezuela	4 – 12	Japan
Netherlands	8 – 8	Russia

Group C

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	United States	6	3	3	0	0	35	15	+20
2.	Germany	4	3	2	0	1	30	23	+7
3.	Greece	2	3	1	0	2	22	21	+1
4.	France	0	3	0	0	3	9	37	–28

• July 13, 2003

Germany	15 – 5	France
Greece	7 – 10	United States

• July 15, 2003

United States	15 – 3	France
Germany	10 – 8	Greece

• July 17, 2003

Germany	4 – 10	United States
Greece	7 – 1	France

Group D

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Hungary	6	3	3	0	0	37	26	+11
2.	Italy	4	3	2	0	1	29	24	+5
3.	Spain	2	3	1	0	2	21	28	–7
4.	Kazakhstan	0	3	0	0	3	19	28	–9

• July 13, 2003

Italy	11 – 6	Kazakhstan
Hungary	16 – 7	Spain

• July 15, 2003

Italy	10 – 11	Hungary
Spain	7 – 4	Kazakhstan

• July 17, 2003

Italy	8 – 7	Spain
Hungary	10 – 9	Kazakhstan

Play-offs

• July 19, 2003

Australia	12 – 1	Japan
Italy	8 – 5	Greece
Russia	12 – 2	Brazil
Spain	9 – 6	Germany

Final round

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	July 21 – Barcelona
	Canada	9
					July 23 – Barcelona
	Spain	8
					Canada	2
	July 21 – Barcelona
					Italy	5
	Italy	8 (5)
									July 25 – Barcelona
	Netherlands	8 (3)
									Italy	6
	July 21 – Barcelona
									United States	8
	Russia	8
					July 23 – Barcelona
	Hungary	6
					Russia	7
	July 21 – Barcelona
					United States	11			Third place
	United States	8
									July 25 – Barcelona
	Australia	4
									Canada	7
									Russia	9

Quarterfinals

• July 21, 2003

Canada	9 – 8	Spain
Italy	8 (5) – 8 (3)	Netherlands
Russia	8 – 6	Hungary
United States	8 – 4	Australia

Semifinals

• July 19, 2003 — 13th/16th place

Great Britain	5 – 6	Venezuela
France	4 – 9	Kazakhstan

• July 21, 2003 — 9th/12th place

Greece	14 – 4	Brazil
Germany	11 – 8	Japan

• July 23, 2003 — 5th/8th place

Hungary	6 – 3	Australia
Netherlands	7 – 3	Spain

• July 23, 2003 — 1st/4th place

Canada	2 – 5	Italy
United States	11 – 7	Russia

Finals

• July 21, 2003 — 15th place

France	9 – 6	Great Britain

• July 21, 2003 — 13th place

Kazakhstan	15 – 5	Venezuela

• July 23, 2003 — 11th place

Japan	4 – 3	Brazil

• July 23, 2003 — 9th place

Greece	10 – 5	Germany

• July 25, 2003 — 7th place

Australia	7 – 3	Spain

• July 25, 2003 — 5th place

Hungary	8 – 7	Netherlands

• July 25, 2003 — Bronze Medal Match

Canada	7 – 9	Russia

• July 25, 2003 — Gold Medal Match

United States	8 – 6	Italy

Final ranking

Rank Team  United States  Italy  Russia 4.  Canada 5.  Hungary 6.  Netherlands 7.  Australia 8.  Spain 9.  Greece 10.  Germany 11.  Japan 12.  Brazil 13.  Kazakhstan 14.  Venezuela 15.  France 16.  Great Britain

2003 FINA Women's World champion  United States First title

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
United States Nicolle Payne Heather Petri Ericka Lorenz Brenda Villa Ellen Estes Natalie Golda Margaret Dingeldein Jacqueline Frank Heather Moody Robin Beauregard Amber Stachowski Gabrielle Domanic Thalia Munro Head coach Guy Baker	Italy Francesca Conti Martina Miceli Carmela Allucci Silvia Bosurgi Erika Lava Manuela Zanchi Tania di Mario Cinzia Ragusa Giusi Malato Alexandra Araujo Maddalena Musumeci Melania Grego Noémi Tóth Head coach Pierluigi Formiconi	Russia Valentina Vorontsova Natalya Shepelina Yekaterina Salimova Sofia Konoukh Yelena Smurova Galina Zlotnikova Anastassia Zoubkova Veronika Linkova Tatiana Petrova Olga Turova Ekaterina Shishova Svetlana Bogdanova Maria Yaina Head coach Yury Mitianin

References

1. ^ "HistoFINA – Water polo medalists and statistics" (PDF). fina.org. FINA. September 2019. p. 57. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.

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