2014 FINA Women's Water Polo World Cup

2014 FINA Women's Water Polo World Cup
Tournament details
Host country	Russland
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Dates	12-17 August 2014
Teams	8 (from 4 confederations)
Final positions
Champions	Vereinigte Staaten (3rd title)
Runner-up	Australien
Third place	Spanien
Fourth place	China
Tournament statistics
Matches played	24
Goals scored	510 (21.25 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Rita Keszthelyi; (22 goals)
Best player	Rowena Webster
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The 2014 FINA Women's Water Polo World Cup was the 16th edition of the event, organised by the world's governing body in aquatics, the International Swimming Federation (FINA). The event took place in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia from 12 to 17 August 2014.^[1]

The United States won the gold medal by defeating Australia 10-6 in the final. Spain captured bronze, beating China 7-5.^[2]

Format

8 teams qualified for the 2014 FINA World Cup. They are split into two groups of 4 teams. After playing a round-robin every team advanced to the quarterfinals. The best ranked team of Group A played against the fourth ranked team of Group B, the second ranked team of Group A against the third ranked team of Group B the third ranked team of Group A against the second ranked team of Group B and the fourth ranked team of Group A against the best ranked team of Group B. The winners of those quarterfinals advanced to the semis and played out the champion while the losers of the quarterfinals competed in placement matches.

Groups

Group A	Group B
Spanien Russland China Singapur	Vereinigte Staaten Ungarn Australien Südafrika

Preliminary round

Group A

All times are YEKT (UTC+5)

	Team	G	W	L	GF	GA	Diff	Points
1.	Spanien	3	2	1	52	15	+37	4
2.	China	3	2	1	41	26	+15	4
3.	Russland	3	2	1	55	22	+33	4
4.	Singapur	3	0	3	6	91	−85	0

12 August 2014 16:00	Spanien	34–3	Singapur	Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
	Score by quarters: 7-1, 8-0, 9-0, 10-2

12 August 2014 18:00	Russland	13–14	China	Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
	Score by quarters: 4-1, 3-6, 2-2, 4-5

13 August 2014 13:30	Spanien	12–5	China	Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
	Score by quarters: 2-1, 4-2, 4-2, 2-0

13 August 2014 18:00	Russland	35–2	Singapur	Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
	Score by quarters: 9-1, 9-0, 9-0, 8-1

14 August 2014 16:30	China	22–1	Singapur	Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
	Score by quarters: 5-0, 7-0, 5-0, 5-1

14 August 2014 18:00	Russland	7–6	Spanien	Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
	Score by quarters: 2-1, 1-1, 2-2, 2-2

Group B

All times are YEKT (UTC+5)

	Team	G	W	L	GF	GA	Diff	Points
1.	Vereinigte Staaten	3	3	0	41	17	+24	6
2.	Australien	3	2	1	36	17	+19	4
3.	Ungarn	3	1	2	42	28	+14	2
4.	Südafrika	3	0	3	6	63	-57	0

12 August 2014 13:00	Ungarn	7–10	Australien	Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
	Score by quarters: 2-3, 2-2, 3-1, 0-4

12 August 2014 14:30	Vereinigte Staaten	18–1	Südafrika	Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
	Score by quarters: 3-0, 5-0, 7-0, 3-1

13 August 2014 15:00	Ungarn	25–3	Südafrika	Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
	Score by quarters: 6-2, 4-1, 8-0, 7-0

13 August 2014 16:30	Vereinigte Staaten	8–6	Australien	Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
	Score by quarters: 2-0, 3-2, 2-2, 1-2

14 August 2014 13:30	Ungarn	10–15	Vereinigte Staaten	Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
	Score by quarters: 2-4, 1-3, 4-5, 3-3

14 August 2014 15:00	Australien	20–2	Südafrika	Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
	Score by quarters: 4-0, 5-1, 5-0, 6-1

Final rounds

5th place bracket

Semi-finals		Fifth place

16 August

Ungarn	42
		17 August
Singapur	0
		Ungarn	14
16 August
		Russland	11
Russland	22

Südafrika	2
		Seventh place

		17 August

		Singapur	6

		Südafrika	11

5th–8th place classification

All times are YEKT (UTC+5)

16 August 2014 15:00	Ungarn	42–0	Singapur	Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
	Score by quarters: 14-0, 11-0, 7-0, 10-0

16 August 2014 16:30	Russland	22–2	Südafrika	Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
	Score by quarters: 7-0, 5-1, 9-0, 1-1

7th-place match

All times are YEKT (UTC+5)

17 August 2014 15:00	Singapur	6–11	Südafrika	Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
	Score by quarters: 0-3, 3-2, 0-5, 3-1

5th-place match

All times are YEKT (UTC+5)

17 August 2014 16:30	Ungarn	14–11	Russland	Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
	Score by quarters: 4-4, 5-4, 3-1, 3-1

Championship bracket

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final

15 August

China	8
		16 August
Ungarn	6
		China	4
15 August
		Vereinigte Staaten	11
Singapur	0
				17 August
Vereinigte Staaten	24
				Vereinigte Staaten	10
15 August
				Australien	6
Russland	8
		16 August
Australien	10
		Australien	8
15 August
		Spanien	2	Third place
Spanien	12
				17 August
Südafrika	2
				China	5

				Spanien	7

Quarterfinals

All times are YEKT (UTC+5)

15 August 2014 15:00	China	8–6	Ungarn	Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
	Score by quarters: 2-1, 3-2, 2–1, 1-2

15 August 2014 16:30	Spanien	12–2	Südafrika	Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
	Score by quarters: 2-0, 3-0, 3-0, 4-2

15 August 2014 18:00	Singapur	0–24	Vereinigte Staaten	Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
	Score by quarters: 0-8, 0-7, 0-5, 0-4

15 August 2014 19:30	Russland	8–10	Australien	Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
	Score by quarters: 2-2, 2-3, 2-3, 2-2

Semifinals

All times are YEKT (UTC+5)

16 August 2014 18:00	China	4–11	Vereinigte Staaten	Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
	Score by quarters: 0-4, 0-3, 3-2, 1-2

16 August 2014 19:30	Australien	8–2	Spanien	Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
	Score by quarters: 2-1, 1-0, 3-1, 2-0

Bronze-medal match

All times are YEKT (UTC+5)
^[2]

17 August 2014 18:00	China	5–7	Spanien	Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
	Score by quarters: 1-2, 1-2, 2-1, 1-2
	Yating, Donglun, Zihan, Xinyan, Guannan 1	Goals	A. Espar 4 M. Ortiz 2 Tarragó 1

Gold-medal match

All times are YEKT (UTC+5)
^[2]

17 August 2014 19:30	Vereinigte Staaten	10–6	Australien	Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
	Score by quarters: 3-1, 4-2, 3-2, 0-1
	Seidemann 3 Matheewson, Neushul 2 Fattal, Clark, Steffens 1	Goals	Webster, McGhie 2 Knox, Gofers 1

Final standings

RANK^[1]	TEAM
	Vereinigte Staaten
	Australien
	Spanien
4.	China
5.	Ungarn
6.	Russland
7.	Südafrika
8.	Singapur

2014 Women's FINA Water Polo World Cup
Vereinigte Staaten Third title

Team Roster

Sami Hill, Alys Williams, Melissa Seidemann, Rachel Fattal, Caroline Clark, Maggie Steffens, Courtney Mathewson, Kiley Neushul, Jillian Kraus, Kaleigh Gilchrist, Annika Dries, Kami Craig, Ashleigh Johnson.^[1] Head coach: Adam Krikorian.

Individual awards

Most Valuable Player
- Rowena Webster (AUS)
Best Goalkeeper
- Ashleigh Johnson (USA)
Best Scorer
- Rita Keszthelyi (HUN) — 22 goals
Media All Star Team
- Ashleigh Johnson (USA) – Goalkeeper
- Kami Craig (USA) – Centre forward
- Rita Keszthelyi (HUN)
- Ekaterina Prokofyeva (RUS)
- Sun Yujun (CHN)
- Roser Tarragó (ESP)
- Rowena Webster (AUS)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "HistoFINA – Water polo medalists and statistics" (PDF). fina.org. FINA. September 2019. p. 67. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c "WP World Cup 2014 (W), Day 6: USA retains World Cup crown with repeat win over Australia". FINA.org. August 17, 2014.

"fina.org August 17, 2014"

[HistoFINA_PDF-1] "HistoFINA – Water polo medalists and statistics" (PDF). fina.org. FINA. September 2019. p. 67. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.

[name1-2] "WP World Cup 2014 (W), Day 6: USA retains World Cup crown with repeat win over Australia". FINA.org. August 17, 2014.

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