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Nine male athletes won five or more medals in water polo at the World Aquatics Championships. Aside from Brazilian-born Spanish player Felipe Perrone [ 3 ] (who won six medals), Serbian player Slobodan Nikić [ 2 ] and Spanish player Blai Mallarach [ 4 ] (who won five medals each), all others were members of the Croatia men's national water ...
The 1973 Men's World Water Polo Championship was the first edition of the men's water polo tournament at the World Aquatics Championships, organized by the world governing body in aquatics, the FINA. As of 2024, men's water polo teams from eight European countries won all 21 tournaments. [1] Croatia is current world champion. Legend
Hungarian Water Polo Player of the Year: 2017 [5] World Championship MVP: 2017 Budapest; 2017 World Championship Team of the Tournament; Hungarian Championship MVP: 2017–18 [6] Hungarian Championship Right Wing of the Year: 2011–12, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2021–22; Greek Championship Right Wing of the Year ...
This article contains lists of those nations that have won a water polo world medal, referring to any of the men's and women's tournament at the Olympic Games, men's and women's tournament at the FINA World Aquatics Championships, men's and women's FINA Water Polo World Cup, and men's and women's FINA Water Polo World League.
Hungary also innovated. According to Gergely Csurka, press officer for the Hungarian Water Polo Federation and author of a 500-page book on the history of the sport in the country, in 1913—a ...
Water polo at the World Aquatics Championships is an international water polo tournament held every two years as part of the World Aquatics Championships. [1] The reigning champions are Croatia in men's and the United States in women's competition. [2]
The first European Water Polo Championship was held in 1926 in Budapest, Hungary, with just a men's competition. The women for the first time competed in 1985 ( Oslo , Norway) for the European title. The water polo tournament was part of the European Aquatics Championships up to and including 1997, and from 1999 the event was separated and got ...
This article contains lists of achievements in major senior-level international water polo tournaments according to first-place, second-place and third-place results obtained by teams representing different nations. The objective is not to create combined medal tables; the focus is on listing the best positions achieved by teams in major ...