World Netball Championships

World Netball Championships

Most recent season or competition: 2011 World Netball Championships
Sign for the 1979 World Netball Championships in Trinidad and Tobago
Sport	Netball
Inaugural season	1963
Most recent champion(s)	Australia (2011)
Most titles	Australia (10 titles)
TV partner(s)	Network Ten

The World Netball Championships is a quadrennial international netball world championship co-ordinated by the International Federation of Netball Associations (IFNA), inaugurated in 1963. Since its inception the competition has been dominated primarily by the Australian national netball team (Australian Diamonds) and the New Zealand national netball team (New Zealand Silver Ferns). The most recent tournament was the 2011 World Netball Championships in Singapore, which was won by Australia.

History

In 1960, representatives from Australia, England, New Zealand, South Africa and the West Indies meet to discuss standardising the rules of the sport. This led to establish the International Federation of Women's Basketball and Netball (which later became the International Federation of Netball Associations). Formal rules were established at this inaugural meeting and it was decided to hold World Championship tournaments every four years. The first World Netball Championship was held in 1963 and was hosted by England. Since then there have been 12 more tournaments.

Results

Liz Ellis won the competition three times as part of the Australian team.

Year	1st	2nd	3rd	Venue	Number of teams
1963 Details[1][2]	Australia [3]	New Zealand	England	Eastbourne, England[3][4]	11
1967 Details[2]	New Zealand	Australia	South Africa	Perth, Australia	8
1971 Details[2]	Australia	New Zealand	England	Kingston, Jamaica[5]	9
1975 Details[2]	Australia	England	New Zealand	Auckland, New Zealand[4][5]	11
1979 Details[2]	1st equal:  New Zealand  Australia  Trinidad and Tobago			Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago	19
1983 Details[2]	Australia	New Zealand	Trinidad and Tobago	Singapore City, Singapore[5][6]	14
1987 Details[2]	New Zealand	2nd equal:  Trinidad and Tobago  Australia		Glasgow, Scotland	17
1991 Details[2]	Australia	New Zealand	Jamaica	Sydney, Australia	20
1995 Details[2]	Australia	South Africa	New Zealand	Birmingham, England	27
1999 Details[2]	Australia[7]	New Zealand[7]	England	Christchurch, New Zealand[4][5]	26
2003 Details[2]	New Zealand[5]	Australia	Jamaica	Kingston, Jamaica[8]	24
2007 Details[2]	Australia	New Zealand	Jamaica	Auckland, New Zealand[4]	16[note 1]
2011 Details[2]	Australia	New Zealand	England	Singapore City, Singapore	16
2015 Details	-	-	-	Sydney, Australia

Notes

1. ^ Suva, Fiji was scheduled to host the 2007 competition but was stripped of the right as a direct result of the December 2006 coup. Hosting rights were subsequently awarded to Auckland, New Zealand, and the competition date moved from July to November 2007

References

1. ^ Sri Lanka Netball 2010
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m} World Netball Championships 2011 Singapore 2011
3. ^ ^{a b} Australian Women's Weekly 1979
4. ^ ^{a b c d} Netball Singapore 2011b
5. ^ ^{a b c d e} International Federation of Netball Associations 2008
6. ^ Netball Singapore 2011
7. ^ ^{a b} Thompson 2006, p. 258
8. ^ Hickey & Navin 2007, p. 35

Bibliography

• Australian Women's Weekly (5 September 1979). "SPOT THE BALL and win a trip to Disneyland.". The Australian Women's Weekly (1932-1982) (1932-1982: National Library of Australia): p. 78. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article57126173. Retrieved 1 March 2011. 
• International Federation of Netball Associations (15 June 2008). "History of Netball". http://www.netball.org/Netball.aspx?id=18. Retrieved 2 March 2011. 
• Netball Singapore (2011). "About Us". http://www.netball.org.sg/about-us. Retrieved 1 March 2011. 
• Netball Singapore (2011b). "Milestones". http://www.netball.org.sg/pages/4-milestones. Retrieved 1 March 2011. 
• Sri Lanka Netball (30 September 2010). "THE HISTORY OF NETBALL IN SRI LANKA". http://www.slnetball.com/History.html. Retrieved 3 March 2011. 
• Thompson, Shona M. (December 2002). "Women and sport in New Zealand". In Pfister, Gertrud; Hartmann-Tews, Ilse. Sport and Women: Social Issues in International Perspective. International Society for Comparative Physical Education & Sport. Routledge. ISBN 0415246288. 
• World Netball Championships 2011 Singapore (2011). "History". http://www.wnc2011.com/home/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=160&Itemid=213. Retrieved 3 March 2011. 

External links

• Official IFNA website
• World Netball Championships 2011 Singapore official website

See also

• International Federation of Netball Associations (IFNA)
• IFNA World Rankings
• World Netball Series