2014 Women's European Water Polo Championship

2014 Women's European Water Polo Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Hungary
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Dates	16–26 July
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
Champions	Spain (1st title)
Runner-up	Netherlands
Third place	Hungary
Fourth place	Italy
Tournament statistics
Matches played	20
Goals scored	374 (18.7 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Rita Keszthelyi (19 goals)
Best player	Maica García
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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.^[1]

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

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.

The draw was held on 9 March 2014.^[2]

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

All times are CEST (UTC+2).

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

All times are CEST (UTC+2).

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

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Gold medal match

A1

Netherlands

12

A3

Greece

9

B2

Italy

11

B2

Italy

11

A1

Netherlands

5

B1

Spain

10

B1

Spain

9

A2

Hungary

11

A2

Hungary

8

B3

Russia

7

5th place match

Bronze medal match

A3

Greece

5

B2

Italy

9

B3

Russia

7

A2

Hungary

10

All times are CEST (UTC+2).

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  PSO: 4–2
		Di Mario, Bianconi 2	Goals	Asimaki 2

All times are CEST (UTC+2).

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

All times are CEST (UTC+2).

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

All times are CEST (UTC+2).

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  PSO: 3–4
		Garibotti 2	Goals	Smit, Van der Sloot 2

All times are CEST (UTC+2).

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

All times are CEST (UTC+2).

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 Espar, Tarragó, Blas 2 Miranda 1	Goals	Van der Sloot 3 Megens, Sevenich 1

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

2014 Women's European Water Polo champion  Spain First title 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 López Patricia Herrera. Head coach: Miki Oca

Rank	Name	Team	Goals	Shots	%
1	Rita Keszthelyi	Hungary	19	47	40.4%
2	Roser Tarragó	Spain	16	37	43.2%
3	Maica García	Spain	14	23	60.9%
4	Roberta Bianconi	Italy	13	30	43.3%
	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%

^[5]

• Most Valuable Player
  •  Maica García (ESP)
• Best Goalkeeper
  •  Giulia Gorlero (ITA)
• Top Scorer
  •  Rita Keszthelyi (HUN) — 19 goals

• Official website