2002 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup

2002 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup FINA Water Polo World Cup Water polo 20 – 25 August Super Final RUS HUN FINA Water Polo World Cup FINA Water Polo World Cup 1999 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup 1999 2006 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup 2006 The 2002 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup was the twelfth edition of the event, organised by the world's governing body in aquatics, the International Swimming Federation (FINA). The event took place in the Tašmajdan Swimming Pool in Belgrade, Yugoslavia from August 20 to August 25, 2002.mwcp dmy Participating teams were the eight best teams from the last World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan (2001). The FINA Cup in Belgrade decided which teams qualified directly to the 2003 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, Spain from July 13 to July 27, 2003. Russia and Hungary, as well as the host Spain, already qualified based on the results from the 2002 FINA Men's Water Polo World League (June 28 – August 4, 2002). Teams The top eight teams from the previous World Aquatic Championship have qualified. Teams Qualified asFR YugoslaviaESPRUSITAHUNGREUSACROHost (2nd 2001 World Championship)1st 2001 World Championship3rd 2001 World Championship4th 2001 World Championship5th 2001 World Championship6th 2001 World Championship7th 2001 World Championship8th 2001 World Championship Seeding Following ranking of the 2001 World Championship Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4ESP (1) FR Yugoslavia (2) (H)RUS (3) ITA (4)HUN (5) GRE (6)USA (7) CRO (8) Groups Group A Group BFR Yugoslavia (H)RUSHUNUSAESPITAGRECRO Preliminary round Group A TeamPointsGWDLGFGADiffQualification1.FR Yugoslavia (H)432012619+7Semi-finals2.RUS4320121210Quarter-finals3.HUN432012419+5Quarter-finals4.USA030031426–12 August 20, 2002 RUS7 – 6HUN2-2 1-1 0-2 4-1USA4 – 9FR Yugoslavia0-2 0-2 2-3 2-2 August 21, 2002 USA5 – 9HUN1-1 1-2 2-2 1-4RUS6 – 10FR Yugoslavia1-4 3-3 2-3 0-0 August 22, 2002 USA5 – 8RUS0-2 0-3 2-1 3-2FR Yugoslavia7 – 9HUN2-3 1-2 2-2 2-2 Group B TeamPointsGWDLGFGADiffQualification1.ITA532101916+3Semi-finals2.GRE3303018180Quarter-finals3.ESP331111716+1Quarter-finals4.CRO130121620–4 August 20, 2002 CRO5 – 6ITA2-1 1-2 2-1 0-2GRE5 – 5ESP1-2 3-1 1-1 0-1 August 21, 2002 CRO4 – 7ESP1-3 1-2 2-1 0-1GRE6 – 6ITA1-1 1-1 1-1 3-3 August 22, 2002 ITA7 – 5ESP1-1 2-1 2-1 2-2CRO7 – 7GRE2-1 2-1 1-3 2-2 Quarterfinals August 23, 2002 HUN10 – 7GRE4-1 2-3 1-2 3-1RUS6 – 5ESP0-0 1-2 3-2 2-1 Semifinals August 24, 2002 FR Yugoslavia5 – 7HUN2-2 1-3 1-1 1-1ITA4 – 5RUS1-1 1-0 2-1 0-3 Finals August 23, 2002 — Seventh place USA12 – 10CRO4-4 4-3 2-1 2-2 August 24, 2002 — Fifth place GRE4 – 3ESP2-1 1-2 1-0 0-0 August 25, 2002 — Third place FR Yugoslavia6 – 4ITA2-0 1-1 1-2 2-1 August 25, 2002 — First place HUN9 – 10RUS3-2 3-2 2-4 1-2 Final ranking RANKTEAMImage:Med 1.pngRUS Image:Med 2.pngHUNImage:Med 3.pngFR Yugoslavia4.ITA5.GRE6.ESP7.USA8.CRO wp 2002 Men's FINA World Cup winners RUS Third Yugoslavia, Italy, Greece and the United States qualified for the 2003 World Aquatics Championships. Russia and Hungary, as well as the host Spain, already qualified. Individual awards Most Valuable Player Tamás Kásás HUN Best Goalkeeper Nikolai Maximov RUS Topscorer Tamás Kásás HUN — 13 goals Squads CRO Teo Đogaš Nikola Franković Hrvoje Herceg Igor Hinić Hrvoje Koljanin Aljoša Kunač Ivan Milaković Dalibor Perčinić Danijel Premuš Tomislav Primorac Ratko Štritof Goran Volarević Tihomil Vranješ Head coach: Veselin Đuho GRE Christos Afroudakis Theodoros Chatzitheodorou Nikolaos Deligiannis Theodoros Kalakonas Konstantinos Loudis Dimitrios Mazis Georgios Reppas Stefanos Santa Anastasios Schizas Argyris Theodoropoulos Ioannis Thomakos Dimitrios Tsiklos Antonios Vlontakis Head coach: Takis Michalos ITA Alberto Angelini Fabio Bencivenga Leonardo Binchi Fabrizio Buonocore Alessandro Calcaterra Roberto Calcaterra Maurizio Felugo Francesco Ferrari Goran Fiorentini Federico Mistrangelo Francesco Postiglione Bogdan Rath Stefano Tempesti Head coach: Alessandro Campagna HUN Attila Bárány Tibor Benedek Péter Biros Rajmund Fodor Tamás Kásás Gergely Katonás Gergely Kiss Zoltán Kovács Csaba Kiss Tamás Molnár Barnabás Steinmetz Zoltán Szécsi Attila Vári Head coach: Dénes Kemény RUS Revaz Chomakhidze Denis Denisov Aleksandr Fyodorov Serguei Garbouzov Dmitry Gorshkov Nikolay Kozlov Nikolay Maximov Andrei Reketchinski Dmitri Stratan Yuri Yatsev Alexander Yerishev Marat Zakirov Irek Zinnourov Head coach: Aleksandr Kabanov USA Tony Azevedo Ryan Bailey Layne Beaubien Larry Felix Peter Hudnut Dan Klatt Genai Kerr Merrill Moses Jeff Powers Chris Segesman Jesse Smith Wolf Wigo Adam Wright Head coach: Ratko Rudić FR Yugoslavia Aleksandar Ćirić Danilo Ikodinović Nikola Janović Viktor Jelenić Nikola Kuljača Aleksandar Šapić Dejan Savić Denis Šefik Petar Trbojević Vanja Udovičić Vladimir Vujasinović Nenad Vukanić Boris Zloković Head coach: Nenad Manojlović References 2002 F W 2002