2014 Women's European Water Polo Championship

2014 Women's European Water Polo Championship
Tournament details
Host country	Hungary
Dates	16–26 July
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Spain (1st title)
Runner-up	Netherlands
Third place	Hungary
Fourth place	Italy
Tournament statistics
Matches	20
Goals scored	374 (18.7 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Rita Keszthelyi; (19 goals)[1]

The 2014 Women's European Water Polo Championship was held in Budapest from 14–26 July 2014.

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

Event	Date	Location	Vacancies	Qualified
Host nation	–	–	1	Hungary
2012 European Championships	16–29 January 2012	Eindhoven	3	Italy Greece Russia
2014 Women's European Water Polo Championship Qualifiers	16–19 January 2014	–	4	France Great Britain Netherlands Spain

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.^[2]

Groups

Group A	Group B
Greece Hungary Netherlands Great Britain	Italy Russia Spain France

Preliminary round

The schedule was announced on 10 May 2014.^[3]^[4]

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

Group A

Team	G	W	L	GF	GA	Diff	Points
Netherlands	3	3	0	32	23	+9	9
Hungary	3	2	1	39	24	+15	6
Greece	3	1	2	23	28	−5	3
Great Britain	3	0	3	17	36	−19	0

16 July 2014 13:00	Report	Great Britain	7–9	Greece	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Grandin (FRA), Teixido (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 1–2, 3–2, 2–2, 1–3
		Gibson-Byrne 3	Goals	Tsoukala 3

16 July 2014 17:30	Report	Netherlands	12–11	Hungary	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Ćirić (SRB), Margeta (SLO)
		Score by quarters: 3–3, 3–3, 4–3, 2–2
		Genee, Van der Sloot 3	Goals	Keszthelyi 3

18 July 2014 14:30	Report	Great Britain	5–11	Netherlands	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Dreval (RUS), Taccini (ITA)
		Score by quarters: 1–2, 2–2, 1–3, 1–4
		Gibson-Byrne 2	Goals	Genee 3

18 July 2014 17:30	Report	Hungary	12–7	Greece	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Teixido (ESP), Franulović (CRO)
		Score by quarters: 3–0, 3–3, 3–2, 3–2
		Antal 3	Goals	Tsoukala, Plevritou 3

20 July 2014 14:30	Report	Netherlands	9–7	Greece	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Taccini (ITA), Galindo (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 3–1, 3–2, 2–3, 1–1
		Klaassen 5	Goals	Roumpesi 3

20 July 2014 17:30	Report	Great Britain	5–16	Hungary	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Grandin (FRA), Kikalishvili (GEO)
		Score by quarters: 2–5, 1–3, 1–5, 1–3
		Temple-Craik 2	Goals	Keszthelyi 6

Group B

Team	G	W	L	GF	GA	Diff	Points
Spain	3	2	1	39	22	+17	6
Italy	3	2	1	35	26	+9	6
Russia	3	2	1	38	28	+10	6
France	3	0	3	14	50	−36	0

16 July 2014 14:30	Report	Italy	14–4	France	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Dutilh-Dumas (NED), Alexandrescu (ROU)
		Score by quarters: 3–1, 4–1, 1–0, 6–2
		three players 3	Goals	Clomes 2

16 July 2014 16:00	Report	Russia	10–9	Spain	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Stavropoulos (GRE), Varkonyi (HUN)
		Score by quarters: 2–2, 2–3, 3–2, 3–2
		Ivanova 4	Goals	Tarragó, García 3

18 July 2014 13:00	Report	France	4–18	Spain	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Kikashvili (GEO), Schwartz (ISR)
		Score by quarters: 1–4, 0–6, 1–5, 2–3
		Daule 2	Goals	Tarragó 6

18 July 2014 16:00	Report	Russia	10–13	Italy	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Stavropoulos (GRE), Koganov (AZE)
		Score by quarters: 2–3, 1–3, 4–5, 3–2
		four players 2	Goals	Bianconi 4

20 July 2014 13:00	Report	Russia	18–6	France	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Toygaru (TUR), Dutilh-Dumas (NED)
		Score by quarters: 4–1, 6–3, 3–2, 5–0
		Prokofyeva, Karimova 5	Goals	Guillet, Clomes 2

20 July 2014 16:00	Report	Italy	8–12	Spain	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Varkonyi (HUN), Ćirić (SRB)
		Score by quarters: 1–4, 2–4, 3–3, 2–1
		Emmolo 4	Goals	Tarragó 5

Final round

Bracket

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Gold medal game

A1

Netherlands (pen.)

12

A3

Greece

9

B2

Italy

11

B2

Italy (pen.)

11

A1

Netherlands

5

B1

Spain

10

B1

Spain

9

A2

Hungary

11

A2

Hungary

8

B3

Russia

7

5th–6th

Bronze medal game

A3

Greece

5

B2

Italy

9

B3

Russia

7

A2

Hungary

10

Quarterfinals

22 July 2014 16:30	Report	Hungary	11–7	Russia	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Bender (GER), Margeta (SLO)
		Score by quarters: 2–1, 4–1, 3–3, 2–2
		Antal 3	Goals	Grineva 2

22 July 2014 18:00	Report	Italy	11–9	Greece	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Schwartz (ISR), Alexandrescu (ROU)
		Score by quarters: 2–2, 3–2, 1–2, 1–1 OT: 4–2
		Di Mario, Bianconi 2	Goals	Asimaki 2

Semifinals

24 July 2014 16:30	Report	Hungary	8–9	Spain	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Ćirić (SRB), Franulović (CRO)
		Score by quarters: 2–2, 3–3, 2–3, 1–1
		Keszthelyi 4	Goals	García 4

24 July 2014 18:00	Report	Italy	11–12	Netherlands	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Naumov (RUS), Margeta (SLO)
		Score by quarters: 1–1, 4–4, 2–1, 1–2 OT: 3–4
		Garibotti 2	Goals	Smit, Van der Sloot 2

Seventh place game

22 July 2014 15:00	Report	Great Britain	5–8	France	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Dreval (RUS), Dutilh-Dumas (NED)
		Score by quarters: 1–3, 2–1, 1–3, 1–1
		Gibson-Byrne 3	Goals	Guillet 2

Fifth place game

24 July 2014 15:00	Report	Russia	7–5	Greece	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Taylor (GBR), Grandin (FRA)
		Score by quarters: 3–3, 3–1, 0–1, 1–0
		Prokofyeva 3	Goals	five players 1

Bronze medal game

26 July 2014 16:30	Report	Hungary	10–9	Italy	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Dutilh-Dumas (NED), Teixido (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 2–3, 5–2, 0–2, 3–2
		Antal 3	Goals	Bianconi 3

Final

26 July 2014 18:00	Report	Spain	10–5	Netherlands	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Taccini (ITA), Stavropoulos (GRE)
		Score by quarters: 3–3, 2–0, 2–2, 3–0
		García 3	Goals	Van der Sloot 3

Statistics

Final ranking

Rank	Team
	Spain
	Netherlands
	Hungary
4	Italy
5	Russia
6	Greece
7	France
8	Great Britain

2014 Women's European Champion
Spain First title

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Team	Goals	Shots	%
1	Rita Keszthelyi	Hungary	19	47	40.4%
2	Roser Tarragó	Spain	16	37	43.2%
3	Maica García Godoy	Spain	14	23	60.9%
4	Roberta Bianconi	Italy	13	30	43.3%
4	Ekaterina Prokofyeva	Russia	13	28	46.4%
6	Barbara Bujka	Hungary	12	31	38.7%
7	Dóra Antal	Hungary	11	32	34.4%
	Tania Di Mario	Italy	11	33	33.3%
	Sabrina van der Sloot	Netherlands	11	28	39.3%
10	Ciara Gibson-Byrne	Great Britain	10	19	52.6%
	Elvina Karimova	Russia	10	22	45.5%
	Lieke Klaassen	Netherlands	10	24	41.7%

References

↑ "Top scorer" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-07-28. Retrieved 2014-07-23.
↑ "Draw – European Water Polo Championships – Budapest 2014". vlv.hu. 9 March 2014.
↑ "Budapest 2014 programme finalized". waterpoloworld.com. 2014-05-10.
↑ Match schedule

External links

Official website

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[1] "Top scorer" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-07-28. Retrieved 2014-07-23.

[2] "Draw – European Water Polo Championships – Budapest 2014". vlv.hu. 9 March 2014.

[3] "Budapest 2014 programme finalized". waterpoloworld.com. 2014-05-10.

[4] Match schedule