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Water polo at the 1981 World Games

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Goal being scored in women's water polo at World Games I

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. Six days before the first game, Canada had become the newly-crowned World Cup champion.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

Medalists

Gold Silver Bronze
 Netherlands
Ria Roos
Greet van der Veen
others
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 United States I
Lynn Comer
Laura Cox
Ruth Cox
Simone LaPay
Vaune Kadlubek
Sue McIntyre
Maureen O'Toole
others
 Canada
Sylvie Archambault
Tracy Crandall
Odile Delaserra
Isabel Deschames
Michele Despatis
Jocelyne Dumay
Diedre Finshaw
Johanne Gerbais
Janice Gilbey
Heather  Gifford
Hilary Knowles
Denise Prefontaine
Sylvie Thibault

Standing

Team W L GF GA
 Netherlands 3 0 52 17
 United States I 2 1 30 23
 Canada 1 2 24 29
 United States II 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 – Debbi Decker, Karen Hastie, Mary Rozance

References

  1. ^ "Santa Clara, USA 1981 Calendar & Results". International World Games Association. Retrieved 2015-10-25.
  2. ^ "Results of the World Games". International World Games Association. Retrieved 2015-10-25.
  3. ^ "World Games". San Jose Mercury-News. San Jose, California. July 26, 1981. p. 14E.
  4. ^ "World Games". San Jose Mercury-News. San Jose, California. July 28, 1981. p. 7D.
  5. ^ Payne, Dave (July 25, 1981). "'World' opener attracts 3,000". San Jose Mercury-News. San Jose, California. p. 6D.
  6. ^ "Canadians drop match". San Jose Mercury-News. San Jose, California. July 26, 1981. p. 1E.
  7. ^ "Holland dunks Canadian women". San Jose Mercury-News. San Jose, California. July 26, 1981. p. 3E.
  8. ^ "German fin swimmer wins fourth gold medal". San Jose Mercury-News. San Jose, California. July 28, 1981. p. 3D.
  9. ^ SARGIS, JOE (July 26, 1981). "Jim Cash of Manhattan, Kan., set two world records..." United Press International.
  10. ^ SARGIS, JOE (July 28, 1981). "The Netherlands, with Ria Roos scoring four goals, buried..." United Press International.
  11. ^ "HistoFINA Water Polo Medallists and Statistics" (PDF). Lausanne, Switzerland: FINA. 2017. p. 66.
  12. ^ Krastev, Todor. "Women Water Polo 3rd World Cup 1981 Brisbane (AUS) - 12-19.07 Winner Canada". Retrieved 30 Jul 2019.