World Netball Championships

World Netball Championships
World Netball Championships
Most recent season or competition:
2011 World Netball Championships
Trinidad & Tobago '79.jpg
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.

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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

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