1995 World Netball Championships
Tournament details | |
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Host country | England |
No. of nations | 27 |
Final positions | |
Champions | Australia (7th title) |
Runners-up | South Africa |
Third place | New Zealand |
← 1991 1999 → |
The 1995 World Netball Championships was the ninth staging of the World Netball Championships, the premier tournament in international netball, held every four years. The 1995 tournament was held in Birmingham, England and was contested by a record 27 teams. Among them were the South African team, who returned to international competition after the abolition of apartheid. One of the star players of the tournament was South African shooter Irene van Dyk.
Australia were the winners of the tournament, claiming their seventh title.[1]
Final placings
Place | Nation[2] |
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Australia | |
South Africa | |
New Zealand | |
4 | England |
5 | Jamaica |
6 | Trinidad and Tobago |
7 | Cook Islands |
8 | Malawi |
9 | Western Samoa |
10 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
11 | Barbados |
12 | Antigua and Barbuda |
13 | Canada |
14 | United States |
15 | Papua New Guinea |
16 | Namibia |
17 | Wales |
18 | Northern Ireland |
19 | Sri Lanka |
20 | Singapore |
21 | Cayman Islands |
22 | Scotland |
23 | Hong Kong |
24 | Bermuda |
25 | Ireland |
26 | Malaysia |
27 | Malta |
References
- ↑ An abridged history of netball, netballpost.com, Retrieved on 24 December 2008
- ↑ Netball Australia. "World Netball Championships placings" (PDF). Retrieved 30 July 2011.
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