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Water polo at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships – Women's tournament

The 1998 Women's World Water Polo Championship was the fourth 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 8 to 16 January 1998 in the Challenge Stadium, and was incorporated into the 1998 World Aquatics Championships in Perth, Western Australia.[1]

Teams edit

Preliminary round edit

Group A edit

Team Points G W D L GF GA Diff
1.   Canada 8 5 4 0 1 34 25 +9
2.   Russia 7 5 3 1 1 49 28 +21
3.   Australia 7 5 3 1 1 50 28 +22
4.   United States 5 5 2 1 2 36 31 +5
5.   Brazil 3 5 1 1 3 29 44 –15
6.   New Zealand 0 5 0 0 5 27 69 –42

Group B edit

Team Points G W D L GF GA Diff
1.   Netherlands 10 5 5 0 0 49 16 +33
2.   Hungary 8 5 4 0 1 48 30 +18
3.   Greece 6 5 3 0 2 32 31 +1
4.   Italy 4 5 2 0 3 48 33 +15
5.   Spain 2 5 1 0 4 15 35 –20
6.   Kazakhstan 0 5 0 0 5 19 66 –47

Quarter finals edit

  • Wednesday January 14, 1998
Hungary   5 – 8   Australia
Canada   9 – 12   Italy
Netherlands   9 – 5   United States
Russia   8 – 6   Greece

Semi finals edit

  • Thursday January 15, 1998
Italy   10 – 9   Australia
Netherlands   7 – 5   Russia

Finals edit

Placing matches edit

  • Thursday January 15, 1998 — 11th place
New Zealand   9 – 7   Kazakhstan
  • Thursday January 15, 1998 — 9th place
Spain   8 – 4   Brazil
  • Friday January 16, 1998 — 7th place
Hungary   10 – 7   United States
  • Friday January 16, 1998 — 5th place
Greece   10 – 9   Canada

Bronze medal match edit

  • Friday January 16, 1998
Australia   8 – 5   Russia

Final edit

  • Friday January 16, 1998
Italy   7 – 6   Netherlands

Final ranking edit

Medalists edit

Gold Silver Bronze
  Italy[1]
Carmela Alluci
Alexandra Araujo
Cristina Consoli
Francesca Conti
Antonella Di Giacinto
Eleonora Gay
Melania Grego
Stefania Larucci
Giusi Malato
Martina Micelli
Maddalena Musumeci
Monica Vaillant
Milena Virzi 		  Netherlands
Karla van der Boon
Carla van Usen
Ellen Bast
Gillian van den Berg
Daniëlle de Bruijn
Edmée Hiemstra
Karin Kuipers
Ingrid Leijendekker
Petra Meerdink
Carla Quint
Sandra Scherrenburg
Mariëlle Schothans
Marjan op den Velde 		  Australia

Individual awards edit

  • Most Valuable Player
  • ???
  • Best Goalkeeper
  • ???
  • Topscorer

References edit

  1. ^ a b c "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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