Beach Water Polo World Championships

The usa women s team became the first world champion in the beach water polo.

Beach water polo world championships. The men s water polo tournament at the 2019 world aquatics championships was held from 15 to 27 july. World championship 2019 scores service is real time updating live. Beach water polo was introduced as a demonstration non medal event. Older sister kylie.

The first wch in this new sport is an exhibition event during the championships in classic water polo in gwangju. More than 9 000 former athletes and water sports enthusiasts from 96 countries participated in the 2017 tournament including athletes as old as 97 years of age. The fina world masters championships is organised by fina fédération internationale de natation english. The invitational competition was held at the world championships for the first time this year with to fina technical water polo committee member andy hoepelman declaring the fast format beach water polo is here to stay.

On the sixth day of the fina world championship beach water polo tournament at the nambu university grounds in gwangju the finals of the four team women s competition were staged. These were clearly the sharpest and fittest teams and their encounter did not fail to stir the crowd. Nambu university stadium water polo yeomju gymnasium artistic swimming chosun university football field high diving yeosu expo ocean park open water swimming schedule. United states of america took out first place with an exciting 14 12 win over spain.

Men italy 4 titles women united states 6 titles water polo at the world aquatics championships is an international water polo tournament held every two years as part of the fina world. Beach water polo without the beach sand and surf. All international most recent champion s men italy 4th title women united states 6th title most titles. Water polo at the world aquatics championships.

Italy defeated spain in the final to win their fourth title while croatia won against hungary to capture the bronze medal. She had sister ryann 19 at her side throughout the week. Jamie neushul 24 top scored with seven goals. The americans didn t get gold medals because the tournament wasn t a part of the official competitions at the fina world championships but they were awarded by diplomas.

Gwangju south korea july 13 differing styles the struggle with converting from seven a side to four a side made for some interesting matches of the opening day of the fina world championship beach water polo tournament at the nambu university grounds in gwangju. A total of 76 medal events were held across six disciplines.