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2003 FINA Men's Water Polo World League

{{Infobox sports season

| title = 2003 FINA Men's Water Polo World League

| league = FINA Water Polo World League

| sport = Water Polo

| seasonslist = FINA Men's Water Polo World League

| seasonslistnames = FINA Men's Water Polo World League

| prevseason_link = 2002 FINA Men's Water Polo World League

| prevseason_year = 2002

| nextseason_link = 2004 FINA Men's Water Polo World League

| nextseason_year = 2004

}}

The 2003 FINA Men's Water Polo World League was the second edition of the annual event, organised by the world's governing body in aquatics, the FINA. After two preliminary rounds, held in São Paulo, Brazil and Budapest, Hungary, the Super Final was held in New York, United States from August 22 to August 24, 2003.{{Cite HistoFINA wp |page=mwl |format=dmy }}

Preliminary round

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|Semi-finals

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|Playoffs

=Group A=

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!width="200"|Team

!width="60"|Points

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!width="60"|D

!width="60"|L

!width="60"|GF

!width="60"|GA

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|1.

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|9

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|2.

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|7

32012721+6
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|3.

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|5

31022433–9
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|3

30031930–11

  • June 27, 2003

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|10 – 6

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|15 – 8

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  • June 28, 2003

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|10 – 6

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|11 – 6

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  • June 29, 2003

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|9 – 6

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|7 – 10

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=Group B=

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!width="200"|Team

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!width="60"|L

!width="60"|GF

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|1.

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|9

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|2.

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|5

31023327+6
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|3.

|align=left|{{wp|USA}}

|5

31022234–12
4.

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|5

31022635–9

  • June 27, 2003

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|10 – 7

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  • June 28, 2003

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|14 – 7

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|15 – 4

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  • June 29, 2003

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|11 – 12

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|12 – 8

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Super Final

=Play-Offs=

  • August 22, 2003

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|2 – 6

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|15 – 9

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=Semi-finals=

  • August 23, 2003

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|6 – 5

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=Fifth-place match=

  • August 23, 2003

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|7 – 8

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=Bronze-medal match=

  • August 24, 2003

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|12 – 9

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=Gold-medal match=

  • August 24, 2003

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|13 – 8

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Final ranking

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!RANK

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|{{wp|AUS}}

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{{winners|wp|2003 FINA Men's World League|HUN|First}}

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Individual awards

  • Most Valuable Player

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  • Best Goalkeeper

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! RANK

!style="width: 20em"|TOPSCORERS

!style="width: 5em"|GOALS

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|{{flagathlete|Tony Azevedo|USA}}

|align="center"|12

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|{{flagathlete|Aleksandar Sapic|SCG}}

|align="center"|11

rowspan=2 align="center"|3.

|{{flagathlete|Gerben Silvis|NED}}

|rowspan=2 align="center"|10

{{flagathlete|Péter Biros|HUN}}
rowspan=4 align="center"|5.

|{{flagathlete|Bogdan Rath|ITA}}

|rowspan=4 align="center"|8

{{flagathlete|Marco Booij|NED}}
{{flagathlete|Tamás Kásás|HUN}}
{{flagathlete|Thomas Whalan|AUS}}
rowspan=6 align="center"|9.

|{{flagathlete|Eelco Uri|NED}}

|rowspan=6 align="center"|7

{{flagathlete|Francesco Postiglione|ITA}}
{{flagathlete|Gergely Kiss|HUN}}
{{flagathlete|Ioannis Thomakos|GRE}}
{{flagathlete|Norbert Madaras|HUN}}
{{flagathlete|Ryan Bailey|USA}}
rowspan=8 align="center"|15.

|{{flagathlete|Fabio Bencivenga|ITA}}

|rowspan=8 align="center"|6

{{flagathlete|Felipe Perrone|BRA}}
{{flagathlete|Goran Fiorentini|ITA}}
{{flagathlete|Jesse Smith|USA}}
{{flagathlete|Predrag Jokic|SCG}}
{{flagathlete|Tamás Molnár|HUN}}
{{flagathlete|Vanja Udovicic|SCG}}
{{flagathlete|Vladimir Gojkovic|SCG}}

Statistics

  • Total goals: 331
  • Total matches: 19
  • Goals per match: 17.4
  • Total of scorers: 83

References

{{Reflist}}

  • [http://www.fina.org/events/WP/World_League/2007/men/pdf/WLMen2007Media.pdf FINA]{{Dead link|date=September 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20071211042117/http://sports123.com/wpo/mwl.html Sports123]

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