1979 Women's World Team Squash Championships

Women's World Team 1979
1st World Women's Team Championship
Location	England
Date(s)	March 15 - March 20, 1979
Results
Champions	Great Britain
Runners-up	Australia
Third place	Ireland
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The 1979 Women's World Team Squash Championships were held in England and took place from March 15 until March 20, 1979.^[1][2]

Results

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Round Robin

Team One	Team Two	Score
Australia	Sweden	3-0
Great Britain	Canada	3-0
Sweden	United States	2-1
Australia	Ireland	3-0
Great Britain	Ireland	3-0
Great Britain	Australia	3-0
Great Britain	United States	3-0
Australia	Canada	3-0
Ireland	Sweden	3-0
Ireland	United States	3-0
Canada	Sweden	2-1
Canada	United States	3-0
Great Britain	Sweden
Australia	United States
Ireland	Canada

Pos	Nation	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	Great Britain	Sue Cogswell, Angela Smith, Teresa Lawes, Barbara Diggens, Jayne Ashton, Lesley Moore	5	5	0	10
2	Australia	Barbara Wall, Vicki Hoffman, Sue King, Rhonda Thorne, Anne Smith	5	4	1	8
3	Ireland	Geraldine Barniville, Dororthy Armstrong, Barbara Sanderson, Irene Hewitt	5	3	2	6
4	Canada	Shelagh Murray, Elaine Hinnegan, Ann Thompson, Penny Glover, Kay Widmer, Sue Pexman, Barbara Savage	5	2	3	4
5	Sweden	Katarina Due-Boje, Tina Dahl, Agneta Samuelson, Eva Lundqvist	5	1	4	2
6	United States	Mariann Greenberg, Carol Weymuller, Ginny Akabane, Barbara Maltby, Diana Nyad	5	0	5	0

Final

England 3	FINAL Edgbaston Priory, Birmingham, England 20 March 1979		Australia 0
1 2 3 4 5 1 Sue Cogswell Barbara Wall 9 6 9 3 9 1       2 Angela Smith Vicki Hoffman 9 7 7 9 9 3 9 5     3 Teresa Lawes Sue King 5 9 9 5 7 9 9 7 9 5

See also

• World Team Squash Championships
• World Squash Federation
• World Open (squash)

References

1. "Women's World Team Championship 1979" (PDF). worldsquash.org.
2. "Times Archives". Oxfordshire Libraries.
3. "Sports results". Trove.
4. "Women's World Open". Trove.
5. "Women's World Teams 1979". Squash Site.