2014 FINA Women's Water Polo World Cup

The 2014 FINA Women's Water Polo World Cup was the sixteenth 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.

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
Spain Russia China Singapore	United States Hungary Australia South Africa

Preliminary round

All times are YEKT (UTC+5)

Group A

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

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12 August 2014 16:00	Spain	34–3	Singapore
	Score by quarters: 7-1, 8-0, 9-0, 10-2

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

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13 August 2014 13:30	Spain	12–5	China
	Score by quarters: 2-1, 4-2, 4-2, 2-0

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13 August 2014 18:00	Russia	35–2	Singapore
	Score by quarters: 9-1, 9-0, 9-0, 8-1

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14 August 2014 16:30	China	22–1	Singapore
	Score by quarters: 5-0, 7-0, 5-0, 5-1

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14 August 2014 18:00	Russia	7–6	Spain
	Score by quarters: 2-1, 1-1, 2-2, 2-2

Group B

	Team	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff	Points
1.	United States	3	3	0	0	41	17	+24	6
2.	Australia	3	2	0	1	36	17	+19	4
3.	Hungary	3	1	0	2	42	28	+14	2
4.	South Africa	3	0	0	3	6	63	-57	0

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12 August 2014 13:00	Hungary	7–10	Australia
	Score by quarters: 2-3, 2-2, 3-1, 0-4

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12 August 2014 14:30	United States	18–1	South Africa
	Score by quarters: 3-0, 5-0, 7-0, 3-1

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13 August 2014 15:00	Hungary	25–3	South Africa
	Score by quarters: 6-2, 4-1, 8-0, 7-0

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13 August 2014 16:30	United States	8–6	Australia
	Score by quarters: 2-0, 3-2, 2-2, 1-2

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14 August 2014 13:30	Hungary	10–15	United States
	Score by quarters: 2-4, 1-3, 4-5, 3-3

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14 August 2014 15:00	Australia	20–2	South Africa
	Score by quarters: 4-0, 5-1, 5-0, 6-1

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Knockout round

Championship

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	15 August – Khanty-Mansiysk
	China	8
					16 August – Khanty-Mansiysk
	Hungary	6
					China	4
	15 August – Khanty-Mansiysk
					United States	11
	Singapore	0
									17 August – Khanty-Mansiysk
	United States	24
									United States	10
	15 August – Khanty-Mansiysk
									Australia	6
	Russia	8
					16 August – Khanty-Mansiysk
	Australia	10
					Australia	8
	15 August – Khanty-Mansiysk
					Spain	2			Third place
	Spain	12
									17 August – Khanty-Mansiysk
	South Africa	2
									China	5
									Spain	7

5th–8th playoffs

	Semi-finals				Fifth place
	16 August – Khanty-Mansiysk
	Hungary	42
					17 August – Khanty-Mansiysk
	Singapore	0
					Hungary	14
	16 August – Khanty-Mansiysk
					Russia	11
	Russia	22
	South Africa	2
					Seventh place
					17 August – Khanty-Mansiysk
					Singapore	6
					South Africa	11

Final standings

RANK	TEAM
	United States
	Australia
	Spain
4.	China
5.	Hungary
6.	Russia
7.	South Africa
8.	Singapore

2014 Women's FINA Water Polo World Cup
United States Third title

Individual awards

• Most Valuable Player
  • Rowena Webster (AUS)
• Best Goalkeeper
  • Ashleigh Johnson (USA)
• Highest goal-scorer
  • Rita Keszthelyi (HUN) — 22 goals
• Media All Star Team
  • Ashleigh Johnson (USA)
  • Kami Craig (USA)
  • Rita Keszthelyi (HUN)
  • Ekaterina Prokofyeva (RUS)
  • Sun Yujun (CHN)
  • Roser Tarrago (ESP)
  • Rowena Webster (AUS)

References

• "fina.org August 17, 2014"