2008 Women's European Water Polo Championship

The 2008 Women's European Water Polo Championship was the twelve edition of the bi-annual event, organised by the Europe's governing body in aquatics, the Ligue Européenne de Natation. The event took place in the Aquatic Centre Málaga in Málaga, Spain from July 5 to July 12, 2008.

Teams

Preliminary round

Group A

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Spain	7	3	2	1	0	33	26	+7
2.	Russia	6	3	2	0	1	33	26	+7
3.	Netherlands	4	3	1	1	1	26	24	+2
4.	Germany	0	3	0	0	3	22	38	-16

July 5, 2008

13:30	Spain	10 – 9	Russia	(2-3, 4-1, 1-3, 3-2)
15:00	Netherlands	9 – 6	Germany	(3-0, 2-3, 2-2, 2-1)

July 6, 2008

13:30	Netherlands	10 – 10	Spain	(5-3, 1-3, 2-3, 2-1)
15:00	Germany	9 – 16	Russia	(0-3, 4-6, 4-2, 1-5)

July 7, 2008

12:00	Netherlands	7 – 8	Russia	(2-3, 2-1, 2-2, 1-2)
13:30	Spain	13 – 7	Germany	(2-4, 4-1, 3-0, 4-2)

Group B

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Italy	7	3	2	1	0	32	16	+16
2.	Hungary	5	3	1	2	0	21	16	+5
3.	Greece	4	3	1	1	1	31	19	+12
4.	France	0	3	0	0	3	10	43	-33

July 5, 2008

12:00	Italy	4 – 4	Hungary	(0-2, 1-1, 1-1, 2-0)
16:30	Greece	15 – 2	France	(2-0, 5-0, 3-1, 5-1)

July 6, 2008

12:00	Italy	10 – 9	Greece	(3-4, 1-1, 4-1, 2-3)
16:30	Hungary	10 – 5	France	(3-1, 3-1, 2-3, 2-0)

July 7, 2008

15:00	France	3 – 18	Italy	(0-6, 0-6, 2-4, 1-2)
16:30	Greece	7 – 7	Hungary	(2-0, 1-1, 3-4, 1-2)

Quarterfinals

July 8, 2008

13:30	Russia	9 – 7	Greece	(2-1, 1-2, 3-1, 3-3)
15:00	Netherlands	7 – 9	Hungary	(1-1, 2-4, 2-3, 2-1)

Semifinals

July 10, 2008

19:30	Hungary	7 – 8	Spain	(2-0, 2-2, 2-2, 1-4)
21:00	Russia	8 – 5	Italy	(2-0, 0-0, 4-3, 2-2)

Finals

7 / 8 places

July 8, 2008

12:00	Germany	8 – 6	France	(2-2, 5-0, 1-3, 0-1)

5 / 6 places

July 10, 2008

18:00	Greece	10 – 11	Netherlands	(3-3, 4-2, 1-3, 2-3)

Bronze Medal

July 12, 2008

19:30	Hungary	9 – 6	Italy	(1-2, 2-2, 2-1, 4-1)

Gold Medal

July 12, 2008

21:00	Spain	8 – 9	Russia	(2-3, 1-3, 3-2, 2-1)

Final ranking

RANK TEAM  Russia  Spain  Hungary 4.  Italy 5.  Netherlands 6.  Greece 7.  Germany 8.  France

2008 Women's European Champion  Russia Second title Valentina Vorontsova, Natalia Shepelina, Ekaterina Prokofyeva, Sofia Konoukh, Alena Vylegzhanina, Nadezda Glyzina, Ekaterina Pantyulina, Evgenia Soboleva, Oleksandra Karpovich, Olga Belyaeva, Elena Smurova, Olga Turova, Evgeniya Protsenko Head Coach: Alexander Kleymenov.

Individual awards

• Most Valuable Player
  •  Blanca Gil (ESP)
• Best Goalkeeper
• Topscorer
  •  Ekaterina Pantyulina (RUS) (16)

References

• Official site
• LEN website