2012 Pan Pacific Water Polo Championships

The Water Polo Pan Pacs is a tournament featuring senior teams from nations along the Pacific Rim. The tournament took its inspiration from the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships as an additional major championship for nations without strong continental championships. This was the first edition of the tournament, held at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre in Melbourne, Australia from 8–14 January 2012.

The participants were Australia, USA, Canada, China, Japan, Brazil, New Zealand (men only), and an Australian "B" team called the Barbarians.

The Pan Pacs was held in two rounds: A preliminary round where each team played all the other teams once, and a final round where the 1st and 2nd placed teams in the preliminary round play for the gold medal, 3rd and 4th for the bronze medal, and 5th and 6th for 5th place. The men's Barbarians team was not eligible to play in the final round. The women's Barbarbians team could only play in the 5th place game in the final round.

Points in the preliminary round were earned as follows:

  • Win: 3 pts
  • Draw: 2 pts
  • Loss: 1 pt

Men's Tournament

All times are Australian Eastern Daylight Time (UTC+11)

Preliminary round
Team G W D L GF GA Diff Points
1.  Australia 65107826+5217
2.  United States 64207733+4416
 Australia Barbarians 63126245+1713
3.  China 63034359-1612
4.  Brazil 62136172-1111
5.  Japan 61145061−119
6.  New Zealand 60062398−756

Final round

5th place game
14 January 2012
09:30		 Match Sheet Japan  19–4  New Zealand

Bronze medal game
14 January 2012
11:00		 Match Sheet China  11–7  Brazil

Gold medal game
14 January 2012
15:45		 Match Sheet Australia  10–11 (ET)  United States

Final Ranking
RANK TEAM
 United States
 Australia
 China
4.  Brazil
5.  Japan
6.  New Zealand

Women's Tournament

All times are Australian Eastern Daylight Time (UTC+11)

Preliminary round
Team G W D L GF GA Diff Points
1.  Australia 55005126+2515
2.  United States 54015526+2913
3.  China 52124534+1110
4.  Canada 52124832+1612
 Australia Barbarians 51042741-147
5.  Brazil 50051683−675

Final round

5th place game
14 January 2012
08:00		 Match Sheet Australia  Barbarians 13–8  Brazil

Bronze medal game
14 January 2012
12:45		 Match Sheet China  6–10  Canada

Gold medal game
14 January 2012
14:15		 Match Sheet Australia  7–4  United States

Final Ranking
RANK TEAM
 Australia
 United States
 Canada
4.  China
5.  Brazil

References

Tournament website

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