The 2014 Women's European Water Polo Championship was held from 16 to 26 July 2014 in Budapest, Hungary.

Spain won their first title by defeating the Netherlands 10-5 in the final. Hungary captured the bronze medal after a 10–9 win over Italy.

Qualification

There were eight teams in the 2014 championships. They qualified as follows: The host nation The best three teams from the 2012 European Championships not already qualified as the host nation Four qualifiers

EventDateLocationVacanciesQualifiedHost nation – –1 2012 European Championships16–29 January 2012 Eindhoven3 2014 Women's European Water Polo Championship Qualifiers 16–19 January 2014 –4

Championships The structure of the championships is that there were two groups of four teams followed by a knockout phase. The first teams in each group automatically qualified to compete for the semis, and the second & third teams played a crossed match to qualify for the semis too. The last teams in each group played a classification playoff for 7th–8th place.

Squads

Draw The draw was held on 9 March 2014.

Groups Group A Group B

Preliminary round The schedule was announced on 10 May 2014.Match schedule

    Team advances to Semifinals     Team advances to Quarterfinals     Team competes in placement matches

Group A All times are CEST (UTC+2).

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Group B All times are CEST (UTC+2).

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Final round Bracket

Quarterfinals All times are CEST (UTC+2).

7th place match All times are CEST (UTC+2).

5th place match All times are CEST (UTC+2).

Semifinals All times are CEST (UTC+2).

Bronze medal match All times are CEST (UTC+2).

Gold medal match All times are CEST (UTC+2).

Final ranking

Rank Team 4 5 6 7 8

Team Roster Laura Ester, Marta Bach, Anni Espar, Roser Tarragó, Mati Ortiz, Jennifer Pareja (C), Lorena Miranda, Pili Peña, Andrea Blas, Ona Meseguer, Maica García, Laura LópezPatricia Herrera. Head coach: Miki Oca

Awards and statistics Top goalscorers RankNameTeamGoalsShots% 1 Rita Keszthelyi 19 47 40.4% 2 Roser Tarragó 16 37 43.2% 3 Maica García 14 23 60.9%4 Roberta Bianconi 13 30 43.3% Ekaterina Prokofyeva 13 28 46.4% 6 Barbara Bujka 12 31 38.7%7 Dóra Antal 11 32 34.4% Tania Di Mario 11 33 33.3% Sabrina van der Sloot 11 28 39.3%10 Ciara Gibson-Byrne 10 19 52.6% Elvina Karimova 10 22 45.5% Lieke Klaassen 10 24 41.7%

Individual awards

Most Valuable Player

Best Goalkeeper

Top Scorer — 19 goals

References

External links Official website