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

The 1998 Men's World Water Polo Championship was the eighth 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 7 to 18 January 1998 in the Challenge Stadium, and was incorporated into the 1998 World Aquatics Championships in Perth, Western Australia.[1]

Qualification

Teams

Group A  Croatia  Kazakhstan  New Zealand  Russia

Group B  Hungary  Iran  Italy  FR Yugoslavia

Group C  Brazil  Greece  South Africa  Spain

Group D  Australia  Canada  Slovakia  United States

Squads

Preliminary round

Group A

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Russia	6	3	3	0	0	38	12	+26
2.	Croatia	4	3	2	0	1	42	13	+29
3.	Kazakhstan	2	3	1	0	2	27	38	–11
4.	New Zealand	0	3	0	0	3	9	53	–44

Kazakhstan	15 – 6	New Zealand
Russia	6 – 4	Croatia

Russia	13 – 8	Kazakhstan
Croatia	19 – 3	New Zealand

Russia	19 – 0	New Zealand
Croatia	19 – 4	Kazakhstan

Group B

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Hungary	6	3	3	0	0	34	14	+20
2.	FR Yugoslavia	4	3	2	0	1	34	21	+13
3.	Italy	2	3	1	0	2	32	23	+9
4.	Iran	0	3	0	0	3	7	49	–42

Italy	15 – 1	Iran
Hungary	7 – 5	FR Yugoslavia

Hungary	11 – 7	Italy
FR Yugoslavia	18 – 4	Iran

Hungary	16 – 2	Iran
FR Yugoslavia	11 – 10	Italy

Group C

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Spain	6	3	3	0	0	29	12	+17
2.	Greece	4	3	2	0	1	26	18	+8
3.	Brazil	2	3	1	0	2	16	22	–6
4.	South Africa	0	3	0	0	3	13	32	–19

Greece	9 – 5	Brazil
Spain	13 – 3	South Africa

Spain	7 – 6	Greece
Brazil	8 – 4	South Africa

Spain	9 – 3	Brazil
Greece	11 – 6	South Africa

Group D

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Australia	6	3	3	0	0	26	19	+7
2.	United States	4	3	2	0	1	24	13	+11
3.	Slovakia	2	3	1	0	2	22	20	+2
4.	Canada	0	3	0	0	3	9	29	–20

Slovakia	9 – 3	Canada
Australia	7 – 6	United States

United States	8 – 5	Slovakia
Australia	10 – 5	Canada

United States	10 – 1	Canada
Australia	9 – 8	Slovakia

Second round

Group E

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Hungary	8	5	4	0	1	55	35	+20
2.	FR Yugoslavia	7	5	3	1	1	47	35	+12
3.	Russia	6	5	3	0	2	44	40	+4
4.	Italy	5	5	2	1	2	47	40	+7
5.	Croatia	4	5	1	2	2	46	34	+12
6.	Kazakhstan	0	5	0	0	5	23	78	–55

Croatia	5 – 6	FR Yugoslavia
Italy	8 – 6	Russia
Hungary	17 – 3	Kazakhstan

Group F

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Spain	10	5	5	0	0	41	25	+16
2.	Australia	8	5	4	0	1	34	24	+10
3.	United States	4	5	2	0	3	33	25	+8
4.	Greece	4	5	2	0	3	30	30	0
5.	Slovakia	4	5	2	0	3	41	49	–8
6.	Brazil	0	5	0	0	5	23	49	–26

Spain	15 – 8	Slovakia
Greece	3 – 2	United States
Australia	9 – 2	Brazil

Semi finals

• 16 January 1998

Spain	5 – 3	FR Yugoslavia
Hungary	10 – 5	Australia

Finals

• 16 January 1998 – 15th place

Iran	6 – 5	New Zealand

• 16 January 1998 – 13th place

Canada	12 – 7	South Africa

• 16 January 1998 – 11th place

Kazakhstan	7 – 6	Brazil

• 17 January 1998 – 9th place

Croatia	12 – 3	Slovakia

• 17 January 1998 – 7th place

United States	8 – 4	Greece

• 18 January 1998 – 5th place

Italy	14 – 3	Russia

• 18 January 1998 – Bronze Medal Match

FR Yugoslavia	9 – 5	Australia

• 18 January 1998 – Gold Medal Match

Spain	6 – 4	Hungary

Final ranking

RANK[1] TEAM  Spain  Hungary  FR Yugoslavia 4.  Australia 5.  Italy 6.  Russia 7.  United States 8.  Greece 9.  Croatia 10.  Slovakia 11.  Kazakhstan 12.  Brazil 13.  Canada 14.  South Africa 15.  Iran 16.  New Zealand

1998 FINA Men's World Champions  Spain First title

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Spain[1] Daniel Ballart Manuel Estiarte Pedro Garcia Salvador Gomez Miguel Gonzales Gustavo Marcos Ruben Michavilla Ivan Moro Sergi Pedrerol Ivan Perez Jesus Rollan Jordi Sans Carlos Sanz	Hungary	FR Yugoslavia Aleksandar Ćirić Danilo Ikodinović Dragan Jovanović Nikola Kuljača Aleksandar Nikolić Dušan Popović Dejan Savić Aleksandar Šapić Petar Trbojević Veljko Uskoković Željko Vičević Vladimir Vujasinović Nenad Vukanić

References

1. "HistoFINA – Water polo medalists and statistics" (PDF). fina.org. FINA. September 2019. p. 14. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 August 2020. Retrieved 22 August 2020.

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