The 1999 World Netball Championships (also known as the Vodafone World Netball Championships for sponsorship reasons) was the tenth 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 was held in
Christchurch
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, New Zealand from 21 September to 2 October 1999 and featured 26 teams with the debut of
Niue
Niue (, ; niu, Niuē) is an island country in the South Pacific Ocean, northeast of New Zealand. Niue's land area is about and its population, predominantly Polynesian, was about 1,600 in 2016. Niue is located in a triangle between Tong ...
,
Tonga
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and
Zambia
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. All matches were held at the
Westpac Arena
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D ...
.
Fourteen teams entered the preliminary round with four teams qualifying to the main round where they were joined by the top twelve teams from the
1995 championships. The main round saw sixteen teams remaining, be split into two groups of eight with the top four qualifying to the quarter-finals while the remaining eight played in classification matches for 9th–16th placings.
Australia
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and
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...
defeated
England
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and
Jamaica
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in the semi-finals, for a repeat of the 1995 final. Australia defended its seventh title defeating New Zealand in the final on a final-second shot by
Sharelle McMahon, after coming back from six goals down at three-quarter time. England claimed the bronze medal, defeating Jamaica by fourteen goals.
Preliminary rounds
The competition started with two days of sixteen teams contesting in two rounds of knockout matches for the four remaining spots in the main competition, the remaining twelve teams entered the consolation round.
Pakistan
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and
Botswana
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were also meant to compete in the tournament but had to withdrew.
Round 1
The opening day of the competition started with wins for six teams with
Wales
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securing the widest point spread of the day with an 82–13 romp over
Vanuatu
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which saw Mair Evans scoring 57 goals.
For
Scotland
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, they had a nervous start in their match against the
Cayman Islands
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with Scotland only leading by three goals at the half time break. But a switch to bring in Gail Higgins into goal attack saw the Scots win by 29 goals.
Zambia
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had the closest match of the opening day with their match over
Papua New Guinea
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having a margin of only two goals in what was a see-saw match.
[ There was also wins for ]Fiji
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, Tonga
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and Malaysia
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who opened their 1999 campaign with a win.[
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Round 2
Day two of the 1999 edition saw the remaining eight teams in the preliminary round ply in four matches to determine the final four spots in the top 16. In the biggest victory of the day, Fiji defeated Zambia by twenty nine goals off the back of a blistering start while fellow Pacific neighbours Tonga lost their second round match to Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...
after conceding sixteen goals in the third quarter while only scoring five. Wales built a solid lead in the first two quarter finals to overcome Scotland by eighteen goals despite Scotland winning the final quarter. The final match of the preliminary round saw Singapore
Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...
sealed a twenty-two goal victory over Malaysia off the back of former Australian B goal-shooter Jocelyn Bryant as she scored 44 goals from 49 attempts.
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Consolation round
Group A
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Group B
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Semi-finals
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Placement matches
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Main round
Group A
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Group B
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Classification matches
Quarter-finals
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Semi-finals
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Playoff 9-16
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Finals
Quarter-finals
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Semi-finals (5-8)
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Semi-finals
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7th place match
5th place match
Bronze medal match
Gold medal match
Final placings
Medallists
References
External links
TVNZ
perspective on the defeat of New Zealand
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