Water polo at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships

Water polo at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships
Host city	Budapest, Hungary
Date(s)	20 June – 3 July
Venue(s)	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Swimming pool Sopron, Debrecen, Szeged
Events	2
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Main article: 2022 World Aquatics Championships

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

Schedule

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

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

Men

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

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

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Hungary)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Spain	1	0	0	1
	United States	1	0	0	1
3	Hungary	0	1	0	1
	Italy	0	1	0	1
5	Greece	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		2	2	2	6

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	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 details	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

1. Schedule
2. "Fina World Championships 2022 Budapest, Hungary Qualification and Entries of Competitors" (PDF). www.fina.org. FINA. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
3. "Press release – FINA Bureau meets, makes further decisions on Russian and Belarusian athletes and event hosting". fina.org. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
4. "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

External links

• Official website