1981 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The 1981 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup was the second edition of the event, organised by the world's governing body in aquatics, the International Swimming Federation (FINA). The event took place in Long Beach, United States. The eight participating teams played a round robin to decide the second ever winner of what would be a bi-annual event until 1999.

Contents 1 Results Matrix 2 Final Standings 3 Final Ranking 4 References

[edit] Results Matrix

	URS	YUG	CUB	USA	ESP	HUN	AUS	BUL
Soviet Union		10 – 6	8 – 3	6 – 5	5 – 5	7 – 5	15 – 6	15 – 5
Yugoslavia	6 – 10		11 – 6	7 – 7	10 – 9	11 – 10	6 – 4	15 – 4
Cuba	3 – 8	6 – 11		10 – 9	7 – 7	9 – 8	9 – 7	7 – 6
United States	5 – 6	7 – 7	9 – 10		4 – 4	12 – 7	9 – 5	11 – 3
Spain	5 – 5	9 – 10	7 – 7	4 – 4		6 – 11	7 – 3	13 – 7
Hungary	5 – 7	10 – 11	8 – 9	7 – 12	11 – 6		12 – 7	11 – 4
Australia	6 – 15	4 – 6	7 – 9	5 – 9	3 – 7	7 – 12		15 – 8
Bulgaria	5 – 15	4 – 15	6 – 7	3 – 11	7 – 13	4 – 11	8 – 15

[edit] Final Standings

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Soviet Union	13	7	6	1	0	66	34	+32
2.	Yugoslavia	11	7	5	1	1	66	50	+16
3.	Cuba	9	7	4	1	2	51	56	–5
4.	United States	8	7	3	2	2	57	42	+15
5.	Spain	7	7	2	3	2	51	47	+4
6.	Hungary	6	7	3	0	4	64	56	+8
7.	Australia	2	7	1	0	6	47	66	–19
8.	Bulgaria	0	7	0	0	7	37	87	–50

[edit] Final Ranking

RANK TEAM  Soviet Union  Yugoslavia  Cuba 4.  United States 5.  Spain 6.  Hungary 7.  Australia 8.  Bulgaria

1981 Men's FINA World Cup Winners  Soviet Union First title

[edit] References

• (English) Official site

v • d • e FINA Water Polo World Cup Men's Tournament 1979 · 1981 · 1983 · 1985 · 1987 · 1989 · 1991 · 1993 · 1995 · 1997 · 1999 · 2002 · 2006 · 2010 Women's Tournament 1979 · 1980 · 1981 · 1983 · 1984 · 1988 · 1989 · 1991 · 1993 · 1995 · 1997 · 1999 · 2002 · 2006 · 2010