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1998 Women's Rugby World Cup

3rd Women's Rugby World Cup

Field	Value
logo	1998 Women's Rugby World Cup Logo 1.webp
datefrom	1
dateto	16 May 1998
host	Netherlands
nations	16
matches	40
champion
count	1
runnerup
tries	283
points	1894
top_scorer	Annaleah Rush (68)There is conflicting data from World Rugby and the tournament website which posted the results over the points scored by Annaleah Rush, likely over whether a try was granted to her, or given as a penalty try. This infobox defaults to the record given by the World Rugby scores.
most_tries	Minke Docter (9)
prev	1994
next	2002

The 1998 Women's Rugby World Cup was the first world cup fully sanctioned by the International Rugby Board (IRB) and the third Women's Rugby World Cup in history. The tournament took place in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands and was the first women's world cup held outside of the United Kingdom.

The tournament saw a record 16 teams compete and heightened media attention. There was no qualification process, teams taking part by invitation from the IRB. New Zealand defeated the United States 44–12 in the final.

Several matches in the tournament were filmed for television and a one-hour TV highlights programme was produced by IMG. These recordings are held as part of the IRB's World Cup Archive.

Squads

Main article: 1998 Women's Rugby World Cup squads

Pool stages

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Bowl

|9 May – Amsterdam||18||21 |9 May – Amsterdam||51||7 |9 May – Amsterdam||47||5 |9 May – Amsterdam||55||12 |12 May – Amsterdam||20||5 |12 May – Amsterdam||18||13 |15 May – Amsterdam||10||26 |15 May – Amsterdam||10||12

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

11th/12th place

Final (9th place)

Shield

|12 May – Amsterdam||61||0 |12 May – Amsterdam||18||20 |15 May – Amsterdam||67||3 |15 May – Amsterdam||3||23

Semi-finals

15th/16th place

Final (13th place)

Cup

|9 May – Amsterdam||30||13 |9 May – Amsterdam||46||3 |9 May – Amsterdam||7||9 |9 May – Amsterdam||25||10 |12 May – Amsterdam||11||44 |12 May – Amsterdam||6||46 |15 May – Amsterdam||44||12 |15 May – Amsterdam||31||15

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

3rd/4th place

Final

Main article: 1998 Women's Rugby World Cup Final

Plate

|12 May – Amsterdam||17||15 |12 May – Amsterdam||7||27 |15 May – Amsterdam||25||15 |15 May – Amsterdam||22||9

Semi-finals

7th/8th place

Final (5th place)

1998 Top scorers

Pos.	Name	Tries	Conv	Pen	Points
1	Annaleah Rush	5	21	2	73
2	Anne-Mieke van Waveren	6	13	3	65
3	Jos Bergman	3	8	8	55
4	Tracey Comley	4	15	1	53
5	Tammi Wilson	7	8	0	51
6	Minke Docter	9	0	0	45
7	Nicky Brown	8	0	0	40
8	Realtine Shrieves	0	2	11	38
9	Louisa Wall	7	0	0	35
9	Vanessa Cootes	7	0	0	35
11	Alfiya Tamayeva	1	11	2	33

Notes

Sources

Rugby World Cup Women’s Stats Archive
Women's Rugby Data

References

Info: Wikipedia Source

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