Water polo at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Women's tournament
The 2003 Women's World Water Polo Championship was the sixth edition of the women's water polo tournament at the World Aquatics Championships, organised by the world governing body in aquatics, the FINA. The tournament was held from 13 to 25 July 2003, and was incorporated into the 2003 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, Spain.
Hungary, United States, Canada, Russia and Italy qualified for this event by finishing in the top five at the 2002 FINA World Cup in Perth, Australia.
Teams
;Group A;Group C
Squads
Preliminary round
Group A
- July 13, 2003
- July 15, 2003
- July 17, 2003
Group B
- July 13, 2003
- July 15, 2003
- July 17, 2003
Group C
- July 13, 2003
- July 15, 2003
- July 17, 2003
Group D
- July 13, 2003
- July 15, 2003
- July 17, 2003
Play-offs
- July 19, 2003
Final round
Quarterfinals
- July 21, 2003
Semifinals
- July 19, 2003 — 13th/16th place
- July 21, 2003 — 9th/12th place
- July 23, 2003 — 5th/8th place
- July 23, 2003 — 1st/4th place
Finals
- July 21, 2003 — 15th place
- July 21, 2003 — 13th place
- July 23, 2003 — 11th place
- July 23, 2003 — 9th place
- July 25, 2003 — 7th place
- July 25, 2003 — 5th place
- July 25, 2003 — Bronze Medal Match
- July 25, 2003 — Gold Medal Match
Final ranking
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Medalists
| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| ' Nicolle Payne Heather Petri Ericka Lorenz Brenda Villa Ellen Estes Natalie Golda Margaret Dingeldein Jacqueline Frank Heather Moody Robin Beauregard Amber Stachowski Gabrielle Domanic Thalia Munro Head Coach Guy Baker | ' Francesca Conti Martina Miceli Carmela Allucci Silvia Bosurgi Erika Lava Manuela Zanchi Tania di Mario Cinzia Ragusa Giusi Malato Alexandra Araujo Maddalena Musumeci Melania Grego Noémi Tóth Head Coach Pierluigi Formiconi | Valentina Vorontsova Natalya Shepelina Yekaterina Salimova Sofia Konoukh Yelena Smurova Galina Zlotnikova Anastassia Zoubkova Veronika Linkova Tatiana Petrova Olga Turova Ekaterina Shishova Svetlana Bogdanova Maria Yaina Head Coach Yury Mitianin |