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

The 1994 Women's World Water Polo Championship was the third 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 1 to 11 September 1994, and was incorporated into the 1994 World Aquatics Championships in Rome, Italy.[1]

1994 World Water Polo Championship
7th FINA World Aquatics Championships
Location	Italy
Date(s)	1–11 September
Category	1994 World Aquatics Championships
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Teams

GROUP A  Brazil  Canada  France  Hungary  Netherlands  Russia

GROUP B  Australia  Germany  Italy  Kazakhstan  New Zealand  United States

Squads

Preliminary round

GROUP A

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Netherlands	8	5	4	0	1	58	25	+33
2.	Hungary	8	5	4	0	1	41	28	+13
3.	Canada	6	5	3	0	2	46	41	+5
4.	Russia	6	5	3	0	2	39	35	+4
5.	France	2	5	1	0	4	28	56	–28
6.	Brazil	0	5	0	0	5	29	56	–27

GROUP B

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Italy	9	5	4	1	0	55	29	+26
2.	United States	9	5	4	1	0	50	29	+21
3.	Australia	6	5	3	0	2	49	34	+15
4.	Germany	3	5	1	1	3	38	47	–9
5.	New Zealand	2	5	1	0	4	22	57	–35
6.	Kazakhstan	1	5	0	1	4	24	42	–18

Final round

Semi finals

Hungary	7 – 5	Italy
Netherlands	10 – 7	United States

Bronze medal match

Italy	14 – 9	United States

Final

Hungary	7 – 5	Netherlands

Final ranking

RANK[1] TEAM  Hungary  Netherlands  Italy 4.  United States 5.  Canada 6.  Australia 7.  Russia 8.  Germany 9.  Brazil 10.  New Zealand 11.  France 12.  Kazakhstan

1994 FINA Women's World Champion  Hungary First title

Individual awards

• Most Valuable Player

• ???

• Best Goalkeeper

• ???

• Topscorer

• Karin Kuipers - The Netherlands

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Hungary [1][2] Katalin Kisne Dancsa Zsuzsa Dunkel Andrea Eke Zsuzsanna Hulf Ildiko Kuna Iren Rafael Katalin Redei Edit Sipos Mercedes Stieber Orsolya Szalkay Krisztina Szremko Gabriella Toth Noemi Toth	Netherlands Ellen Bast Hellen Boering Edme Hiemstra Stella Kriekaard Karin Kuipers Ingrid Leijendekker Alice Lindhout Sandra Scherrenburg Rianne Schram Janny Spijker Gillian van den Berg Karla van der Boon Hedda Verdam	Italy Nicoletta Abbate Carmela Allucci Cristina Consoli Francesca Conti Antonella Di Giacinto Melania Grego Stefania Lariucci Giusy Malato Martina Miceli Paola Sabbatini Oriana Di Siena Monica Vaillant Milena Virz

References

1. "HistoFINA – Water polo medalists and statistics" (PDF). fina.org. FINA. September 2019. p. 57. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 August 2020. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
2. Women's World Cup Results, sportquick

Sources

• Results
• World Championship, sportquick