The 2002 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup was the twelfth edition of the event, organised by the world's governing body in aquatics, the International Swimming Federation (FINA). The event took place in the Tašmajdan Swimming Pool in Belgrade, Yugoslavia from August 20 to August 25, 2002. Participating teams were the eight best teams from the last World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan (2001).
The FINA Cup in Belgrade decided which teams qualified directly to the 2003 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, Spain from July 13 to July 27, 2003. Russia and Hungary, as well as the host Spain, already qualified based on the results from the 2002 FINA Men's Water Polo World League (June 28 – August 4, 2002).
Teams The top eight teams from the previous World Aquatic Championship have qualified.
Teams Qualified asHost (2nd 2001 World Championship)1st 2001 World Championship3rd 2001 World Championship4th 2001 World Championship5th 2001 World Championship6th 2001 World Championship7th 2001 World Championship8th 2001 World Championship
Seeding Following ranking of the 2001 World Championship Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4 (1) (2) (H) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)
Groups Group A Group B (H)
Preliminary round Group A TeamPointsGWDLGFGADiffQualification1. (H)432012619+7Semi-finals2.4320121210Quarter-finals3.432012419+5Quarter-finals4.030031426–12
August 20, 2002 7 – 62-2 1-1 0-2 4-14 – 90-2 0-2 2-3 2-2
August 21, 2002 5 – 91-1 1-2 2-2 1-46 – 101-4 3-3 2-3 0-0
August 22, 2002 5 – 80-2 0-3 2-1 3-27 – 92-3 1-2 2-2 2-2
Group B TeamPointsGWDLGFGADiffQualification1.532101916+3Semi-finals2.3303018180Quarter-finals3.331111716+1Quarter-finals4.130121620–4
August 20, 2002 5 – 62-1 1-2 2-1 0-25 – 51-2 3-1 1-1 0-1
August 21, 2002 4 – 71-3 1-2 2-1 0-16 – 61-1 1-1 1-1 3-3
August 22, 2002 7 – 51-1 2-1 2-1 2-27 – 72-1 2-1 1-3 2-2
Quarterfinals August 23, 2002 10 – 74-1 2-3 1-2 3-16 – 50-0 1-2 3-2 2-1
Semifinals August 24, 2002 5 – 72-2 1-3 1-1 1-14 – 51-1 1-0 2-1 0-3
Finals August 23, 2002 — Seventh place 12 – 104-4 4-3 2-1 2-2
August 24, 2002 — Fifth place 4 – 32-1 1-2 1-0 0-0
August 25, 2002 — Third place 6 – 42-0 1-1 1-2 2-1
August 25, 2002 — First place 9 – 103-2 3-2 2-4 1-2
Final ranking
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Yugoslavia, Italy, Greece and the United States qualified for the 2003 World Aquatics Championships. Russia and Hungary, as well as the host Spain, already qualified.
Individual awards Most Valuable Player
Best Goalkeeper
Topscorer — 13 goals
Squads
Teo Đogaš Nikola Franković Hrvoje Herceg Igor Hinić Hrvoje Koljanin
Aljoša Kunač Ivan Milaković Dalibor Perčinić Danijel Premuš Tomislav Primorac
Ratko Štritof Goran Volarević Tihomil Vranješ Head coach: Veselin Đuho
Christos Afroudakis Theodoros Chatzitheodorou Nikolaos Deligiannis Theodoros Kalakonas Konstantinos Loudis
Dimitrios Mazis Georgios Reppas Stefanos Santa Anastasios Schizas Argyris Theodoropoulos
Ioannis Thomakos Dimitrios Tsiklos Antonios Vlontakis Head coach: Takis Michalos
Alberto Angelini Fabio Bencivenga Leonardo Binchi Fabrizio Buonocore Alessandro Calcaterra
Roberto Calcaterra Maurizio Felugo Francesco Ferrari Goran Fiorentini Federico Mistrangelo
Francesco Postiglione Bogdan Rath Stefano Tempesti Head coach: Alessandro Campagna
Attila Bárány Tibor Benedek Péter Biros Rajmund Fodor Tamás Kásás
Gergely Katonás Gergely Kiss Zoltán Kovács Csaba Kiss Tamás Molnár
Barnabás Steinmetz Zoltán Szécsi Attila Vári Head coach: Dénes Kemény
Revaz Chomakhidze Denis Denisov Aleksandr Fyodorov Serguei Garbouzov Dmitry Gorshkov
Nikolay Kozlov Nikolay Maximov Andrei Reketchinski Dmitri Stratan Yuri Yatsev
Alexander Yerishev Marat Zakirov Irek Zinnourov Head coach: Aleksandr Kabanov
Tony Azevedo Ryan Bailey Layne Beaubien Larry Felix Peter Hudnut
Dan Klatt Genai Kerr Merrill Moses Jeff Powers Chris Segesman
Jesse Smith Wolf Wigo Adam Wright Head coach: Ratko Rudić
Aleksandar Ćirić Danilo Ikodinović Nikola Janović Viktor Jelenić Nikola Kuljača
Aleksandar Šapić Dejan Savić Denis Šefik Petar Trbojević Vanja Udovičić
Vladimir Vujasinović Nenad Vukanić Boris Zloković Head coach: Nenad Manojlović
References