Water polo at the 1991 World Aquatics Championships – Women's tournament

The 1991 FINA Women's World Water Polo Championship was the second edition of the event, organised by the world's governing body in aquatics, the FINA. The tournament was held from 3 January to 13 January 1991 and incorporated in the 1991 World Aquatics Championships, held in Perth, Australia.

Teams

GROUP A  Canada  France  Germany  Netherlands  New Zealand

GROUP B  Australia  Brazil  Hungary  United States

Squads

Preliminary round

GROUP A

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Netherlands	8	4	4	0	0	49	35	+14
2.	Canada	6	4	3	0	1	40	25	+15
3.	Germany	4	4	2	0	2	38	33	+5
4.	New Zealand	2	4	1	0	3	29	42	–13
5.	France	0	4	0	0	4	28	49	–21

GROUP B

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Hungary	6	3	3	0	0	40	18	+22
2.	United States	4	3	2	0	1	30	17	+13
3.	Australia	2	3	1	0	2	27	19	+8
4.	Brazil	0	3	0	0	3	3	46	–43

Final round

GROUP C

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Netherlands	4	3	2	0	1	22	12	+10
2.	Canada	3	3	1	1	1	14	20	–6
3.	United States	3	3	1	1	1	17	18	–1
4.	Hungary	2	3	1	0	2	16	19	–3

Final ranking

RANK TEAM  Netherlands  Canada  United States 4.  Hungary 5.  Australia 6.  Germany 7.  New Zealand 8.  Brazil 9.  France

1991 FINA Women's World Champion  Netherlands First title

Individual awards

• Most Valuable Player

• ???

• Best Goalkeeper

• ???

RANK	TOPSCORERS	GOALS
1.	Birgit Kempen (GER)	23
2.	Alice Lindhout (NED)	17
3.	Hedda Verdam (NED)	16
4.	Patricia Libregts (NED)	14

References

• Results
• HistoFINA Volume VIII (Edition 2004)