Water polo at the 1981 World Games
The World Games I women's water polo competition was held on July 25–27, 1981, at Santa Clara International Swim Center in Santa Clara, California. Teams from the United States (2), Netherlands and Canada participated.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Six days before the first game, Canada had become the newly-crowned World Cup champion in Brisbane, Australia, in a competition that included the same three teams that medaled in these Games.[11][12]
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Goal being scored in women's water polo at World Games I
Medalists
Gold | Silver | Bronze |
![]() J. Boer Brinkhof Dorine Heijnert Kok Ria Roos Ingrid Scholten Elly Spijker Ann van Beek Leineke van den Heuvel Marion van den Mark Greet van den Veen others . |
![]() Lynn Comer Laura Cox Ruth Cox Debbie Decker Leslie Entwistle Karen Hastie Vaune Kadlubek Simone LaPay Robin Linn Sue McIntyre Maureen O'Toole Marla Smith other |
![]() Sylvie Archambault Tracy Crandall Odile Delaserra Isabel Deschamps Michele Despatis Jocelyn Dumais Diedre Finshaw Johanne Gervais Janice Gilbey Heather Gifford Hilary Knowles Denise Prefontaine Sylvie Thibault |
Standing
Team | W | L | GF | GA |
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3 | 0 | 52 | 17 |
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2 | 1 | 30 | 23 |
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1 | 2 | 24 | 29 |
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0 | 3 | 10 | 47 |
Details
Saturday, July 25, 1981:
- United States I 14, United States II 4
Netherlands 17, Canada 7
Sunday, July 26, 1981:
- United States I 9, Canada 6
Netherlands 22, United States II 3
Monday, July 27, 1981:
- Netherlands 13, United States I 7
Canada 11, United States II 3
Other known individual participants: USA – Marybeth Rozance
References
- "Santa Clara, USA 1981 Calendar & Results". International World Games Association. Retrieved 2015-10-25.
- "Results of the World Games". International World Games Association. Retrieved 2015-10-25.
- "World Games". San Jose Mercury-News. San Jose, California. July 26, 1981. p. 14E.
- "World Games". San Jose Mercury-News. San Jose, California. July 28, 1981. p. 7D.
- Payne, Dave (July 25, 1981). "'World' opener attracts 3,000". San Jose Mercury-News. San Jose, California. p. 6D.
- "Canadians drop match". San Jose Mercury-News. San Jose, California. July 26, 1981. p. 1E.
- "Holland dunks Canadian women". San Jose Mercury-News. San Jose, California. July 26, 1981. p. 3E.
- "German fin swimmer wins fourth gold medal". San Jose Mercury-News. San Jose, California. July 28, 1981. p. 3D.
- SARGIS, JOE (July 26, 1981). "Jim Cash of Manhattan, Kan., set two world records..." United Press International.
- SARGIS, JOE (July 28, 1981). "The Netherlands, with Ria Roos scoring four goals, buried..." United Press International.
- "HistoFINA Water Polo Medallists and Statistics" (PDF). Lausanne, Switzerland: FINA. 2017. p. 66.
- Krastev, Todor. "Women Water Polo 3rd World Cup 1981 Brisbane (AUS) - 12-19.07 Winner Canada". Retrieved 30 Jul 2019.
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