Water polo at the 1994 World Aquatics Championships – Men's tournament

Water polo at the 1994 World Aquatics Championships – Men's tournament
Tournament details
Venue	Italy (in Rome host cities)
Dates	1 – 11 September
Teams	16 (from 5 confederations)
Final positions
Champions	Italy (2nd title)
Runners-up	Spain
Third place	Russia
Fourth place	Croatia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	56
Goals scored	945 (16.88 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Manuel Estiarte; (25 goals)

The 1994 Men's World Water Polo Championship was the seventh edition of the men's water polo tournament at the World Aquatics Championships, organised by the world governing body in aquatics, the FINA. The tournament was held from 1 to 11 September 1994, and was incorporated into the 1994 World Aquatics Championships in Rome, Italy.^[1]

Participating teams

Africa	Americas	Asia	Europe	Oceania
South Africa	Canada Cuba United States	Kazakhstan	Croatia Germany Greece Hungary Italy Netherlands Romania Russia Spain	Australia New Zealand

Groups formed

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Preliminary round

	Qualified for places 1–8, separated in 2 round robin groups of 4 teams each. (Group E and F)
	Qualified for places 9–16, separated in 2 round robin groups of 4 teams each. (Group G and H)

Group A

Pos	Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD
1	Netherlands	4	3	2	1	25	22	+3
2	United States	4	3	2	1	25	22	+3
3	Germany	4	3	2	1	24	23	+1
4	Romania	0	3	0	3	19	26	−7

Source:

September 2, 1994


United States	9 – 7	Romania
Germany	9 – 8	Netherlands

September 3, 1994


Germany	8 – 6	Romania
Netherlands	8 – 7	United States

September 4, 1994


United States	9 – 7	Germany
Netherlands	9 – 6	Romania

Group B

Pos	Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD
1	Spain	6	3	3	0	47	13	+34
2	Croatia	4	3	2	1	49	18	+31
3	Australia	2	3	1	2	39	22	+17
4	New Zealand	0	3	0	3	7	89	−82

Source:

September 2, 1994


Australia	28 – 4	New Zealand
Spain	11 – 6	Croatia

September 3, 1994


Spain	10 – 5	Australia
Croatia	38 – 1	New Zealand

September 4, 1994


Croatia	8 – 6	Australia
Spain	26 – 2	New Zealand

Group C

Pos	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	Greece	5	3	2	1	0	27	14	+13
2	Russia	5	3	2	1	0	24	11	+13
3	Cuba	2	3	1	0	2	18	13	+5
4	South Africa	0	3	0	0	3	6	37	−31

Source:

September 2, 1994


Greece	15 – 3	South Africa
Russia	5 – 4	Cuba

September 3, 1994


Cuba	8 – 1	South Africa
Greece	5 – 5	Russia

September 4, 1994


Russia	14 – 2	South Africa
Greece	7 – 6	Cuba

Group D

Pos	Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD
1	Italy	6	3	3	0	33	19	+14
2	Hungary	4	3	2	1	35	18	+17
3	Kazakhstan	2	3	1	2	24	29	−5
4	Canada	0	3	0	3	6	32	−26

Source:

September 2, 1994


Hungary	13 – 0	Canada
Italy	13 – 7	Kazakhstan

September 3, 1994


Kazakhstan	10 – 4	Canada
Italy	11 – 10	Hungary

September 4, 1994


Hungary	12 – 7	Kazakhstan
Italy	9 – 2	Canada

Second round

	Qualified for places 1–4 in a knockout system with 3rd place game.
	Will play for places 5–8 in a round robin group. (Group I)
	Will play for places 9–12 in a round robin group. (Group J)
	Will play for places 13–16 in a round robin group (Group K)

Group E

Pos	Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD
1	Spain	4	3	2	1	36	23	+13
2	Croatia	4	3	2	1	26	28	−2
3	Netherlands	2	3	1	2	25	34	−9
4	United States	2	3	1	2	24	26	−2

Source:

Preliminary round results apply.

September 6, 1994


Spain	16 – 7	Netherlands
Croatia	9 – 7	United States

September 7, 1994


Croatia	11 – 10	Netherlands
United States	10 – 9	Spain

Group F

Pos	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	Italy	6	3	3	0	0	25	20	+5
2	Russia	3	3	1	1	1	24	24	0
3	Hungary	2	3	1	0	2	33	30	+3
4	Greece	1	3	0	1	2	15	23	−8

Source:

Preliminary round results apply.

September 6, 1994


Hungary	11 – 6	Greece
Italy	7 – 6	Russia

September 7, 1994


Russia	13 – 12	Hungary
Italy	7 – 4	Greece

Group G

Pos	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	Australia	5	3	2	1	0	42	16	+26
2	Germany	5	3	2	1	0	30	15	+15
3	Romania	2	3	1	0	2	24	18	+6
4	New Zealand	0	3	0	0	3	9	56	−47

Source:

Preliminary round results apply.

September 6, 1994


Germany	15 – 2	New Zealand
Australia	7 – 5	Romania

September 7, 1994


Romania	13 – 3	New Zealand
Australia	7 – 7	Germany

Group H

Pos	Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD
1	Cuba	6	3	3	0	24	15	+9
2	Kazakhstan	4	3	2	1	33	15	+18
3	Canada	2	3	1	2	24	26	−2
4	South Africa	0	3	0	3	12	37	−25

Source:

Preliminary round results apply.

September 6, 1994


Cuba	5 – 4	Kazakhstan
Canada	10 – 5	South Africa

September 7, 1994


Kazakhstan	19 – 6	South Africa
Cuba	11 – 10	Canada

Final round

13th – 16th places (Group K)

Pos	Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD
13	Romania	6	3	3	0	34	17	+17
14	Canada	4	3	2	1	16	17	−1
15	South Africa	2	3	1	2	14	23	−9
16	New Zealand	0	3	0	3	7	24	−17

Source:

Results of previous rounds apply.

September 9, 1994


Canada	8 – 2	New Zealand
Romania	11 – 6	South Africa

September 10, 1994


South Africa	3 – 2	New Zealand
Romania	10 – 8	Canada

9th – 12th places (Group J)

Pos	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
9	Germany	5	3	2	1	0	33	21	+12
10	Australia	5	3	2	1	0	28	23	+5
11	Cuba	2	3	1	0	2	19	26	−7
12	Kazakhstan	0	3	0	0	3	20	30	−10

Source:

Results of previous rounds apply.

September 9, 1994


Germany	14 – 8	Kazakhstan
Australia	10 – 8	Cuba

September 10, 1994


Australia	11 – 8	Kazakhstan
Germany	12 – 6	Cuba

5th – 8th places (Group I)

Pos	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
5	Hungary	5	3	2	1	0	32	23	+9
6	United States	3	3	1	1	1	26	26	0
7	Greece	2	3	1	0	2	20	25	−5
8	Netherlands	2	3	1	0	2	20	24	−4

Source:

Results of previous rounds apply.

September 9, 1994


Greece	7 – 6	Netherlands
Hungary	11 – 11	United States

September 10, 1994


United States	8 – 7	Greece
Hungary	10 – 6	Netherlands

Semi finals

September 10, 1994


Italy	8 – 5	Croatia
Spain	9 – 6	Russia

Finals

September 11, 1994 — Bronze Medal Match


Russia	14 – 13	Croatia

September 11, 1994 — Gold Medal Match


Italy	10 – 5	Spain

Final ranking

RANK^[1]	TEAM
	Italy
	Spain
	Russia
4.	Croatia
5.	Hungary
6.	United States
7.	Greece
8.	Netherlands
9.	Germany
10.	Australia
11.	Cuba
12.	Kazakhstan
13.	Romania
14.	Canada
15.	South Africa
16.	New Zealand

1994 FINA Men's World champions
Italy Second title

Team Roster ^[1]

Alesandro Bovo, Roberto Calcaterra, Alessandro Campagna, Marco D'Altrui, Massimiliano Ferretti, Mario Fiorillo, Ferdinando Gandolfi, Amedeo Pomillio, Franco Porzio, Giuseppe Porzio, Carlo Silipo.^[1]
Head coach: Ratko Rudić

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Italy ^[2] Carlo Silipo Amedeo Pomilio Roberto Calcaterra Gianni Averaimo Alessandro Bovo Mario Fiorillo Francesco Porzio Ferdinando Gandolfi Massimiliano Ferretti Sandro Campagna Pino Porzio Marco D'Altrui Francesco Attolico Head coach: Ratko Rudić	Spain ^[2] Jorge Payá Manuel Silvestre Gabriel Hernández Sergi Pedrerol Jesús Rollán Manuel Estiarte (c) Pedro García Jordi Sans Salvador Gómez Miki Oca Gustavo Marcos Daniel Ballart Josep Picó Head coach: Juan Jané	Russia ^[2] Aleksandr Ogorodnikov Sergey Yevstigneyev Dmitri Dugin Nikolay Maksimov Aleksandr Yeryshov Dmitry Apanasenko Serghei Marcoci Nikolay Kozlov Sergey Ivlev Dmitry Gorshkov Yuriy Smoloviy Maxim Apanasenko Sergey Garbuzov Head coach: Aleksandr Kabanov

Top goalscorers


Rank	Name	Goals
1	Manuel Estiarte	25
2	Vlad Hagiu	21
3	Dubravko Šimenc	19
4	Rod Owen-Jones	15
	Juan Hernández Silveira
	Askar Orazalinov
	Chris Humbert
	Tibor Benedek

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "HistoFINA – Water polo medalists and statistics" (PDF). fina.org. FINA. September 2019. p. 14. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c 7th FINA World Championships 1994 - Roma Water polo Men www.fina.org

External links

[HistoFINA_PDF-1] "HistoFINA – Water polo medalists and statistics" (PDF). fina.org. FINA. September 2019. p. 14. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.

[Roma1994-2] 7th FINA World Championships 1994 - Roma Water polo Men www.fina.org

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