The 1975 World Netball Championships was the fourth edition of the
INF Netball World Cup
The Netball World Cup is a quadrennial international netball world championship organised by the World Netball, inaugurated in 1963. Since its inception the competition has been dominated primarily by the Australia national netball team and t ...
, a quadrennial premier event in international
netball
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. It took place from 22 August to 4 September and was held in
Auckland
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, New Zealand. It featured 11 teams with the debut of (
Fiji
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and
Papua New Guinea
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).
After each team had played ten games,
Australia
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successfully defended its 1969 title with nine wins and a draw (against
New Zealand
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).
England
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took the silver medal and New Zealand took the bronze medal.
Results
Table
Round 1
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Round 2
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Round 3
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Round 4
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Round 5
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Round 6
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Round 7
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Round 8
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Round 9
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Round 10
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Round 11
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Medallists
References
{{Netball World Championship Nav
Netball World Cup
1975 in netball
1975 in New Zealand sport
World
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Sports competitions in Auckland
1970s in Auckland
August 1975 sports events in New Zealand
September 1975 sports events in New Zealand