2011 World Netball Championships

Organisation

Bids

Bidding to host the 13th World Championships began in 2006. The final vote for hosting the 2011 tournament was held at the 2007 IFNA Congress in Auckland, New Zealand. Delegates at the Congress chose between Singapore and Melbourne, Australia. In a unanimous decision, Singapore was selected to host the 2011 event. The successful Singapore delegation included team co-captains Pearline Chan and Jean Ng. The 2011 tournament was the second time that Singapore has hosted a World Championship, the first being in 1983.

Host venue

All 48 matches were held at the Singapore Indoor Stadium, located 4 km from the city centre along the Kallang waterfront. The venue was built in 1989 at a cost of S$90 million. It was designed by Japanese architect Kenzo Tange and features an iconic cone-shaped roof. Recently, it has hosted events for the 2009 Asian Youth Games and the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics. It is also set to be part of the new Singapore Sports Hub, which will be built on the site of the nearby Singapore National Stadium.

For the World Netball Championships, the venue contained two adjacent playing courts and an overall seating capacity of 8,000. Singapore has an average temperature of 31 °C in July; however, the venue was kept air-conditioned at a constant temperature of 20 °C throughout the tournament.

Sponsors and partners

The 2011 World Championships was administered by the International Federation of Netball Associations and Netball Singapore. Mission Foods were the title sponsors for the event, which became known as the 2011 Mission Foods World Netball Championship. Swissôtel The Stamford and Fairmont Singapore are the official hotels for the Championship, where all teams stayed for the duration of the tournament.

Broadcasters

Umpires

The IFNA announced on 24 March 2011 that seventeen umpires from seven countries would officiate matches at the tournament, with two more umpires later added.

Teams

Qualification

Sixteen nations contested the 2011 tournament.

Singapore automatically qualified as the host nation:

The top five teams from the 2007 tournament also qualified:

The remaining ten teams qualified through five regional tournaments, from each of which two teams progressed to the World Championships.

Draw

The draw for the 2011 tournament was determined on 12 December 2010 in Singapore.

1. The top 4 teams from the previous championship (Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica and England) were put in the number one position from pool A to pool D respectively.
2. Malawi was then put in the second position in pool D, while hosts Singapore were put in the second position on pool C.
3. Then the five teams who finished first in their qualifying tournaments (Fiji, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Trinidad, Tobago and Northern Ireland) were put into the groups in either the second or third position.
4. Finally, the teams who finished second in their qualifying tournaments (Barbados, Botswana, Malaysia, Samoa and Wales) were put into the groups in either the third or fourth position.

No more than two teams from the same region could have been drawn into the same group. in parentheses.

Players

Main article: 2011 World Netball Championships squads

Format

The 2011 tournament comprised 48 matches played over eight days from 3–10 July. The 16 participating teams were initially divided into four pools of four teams. During the preliminary pool stage, teams in each pool played each other once. In every pool match, two points were awarded to a winning team, while no points are given to a losing team.

At the end of the preliminary matches, the two teams with the highest number of points in each pool progressed to the finals, ultimately contesting the 1st–8th final placings. The remaining two teams from each pool entered classification matches, which determined the 9th–16th final placings.

Eight teams contested the finals matches, each playing one quarter-final and one semi-final. The four teams that won their quarter-finals contested the medal matches. Of these four teams, the two semi-final winners advanced to the gold medal match, while the other two teams played for bronze. The medal matches were scheduled for the last day of the tournament, on 10 July.

Preliminary matches

Pool A

• Highlighted teams advanced to the quarter-finals. Remaining teams will contest classification matches.

Bell
Cox
Medhurst Langi | res-ump = F. Meiklejohn Samarasinghe McCullough
O'Hanlon | res-ump = J. Young-Strong Langi Sivalingam | res-ump = J. Bredin Bell
Cox
Medhurst Lennon | res-ump = G. Burgess Lennon
McCullough Faasavalu
Langi | res-ump = M. Johnson-Hurley Bell Cox
Medhurst Sivalingam | res-ump = T. Prince

Pool B

• Highlighted teams advanced to the quarter-finals. Remaining teams will contest classification matches. Barker Wilson Lewis Moseley | res-ump = B. Meek Thompson
  Tutaia
  van Dyk Rusivakula
  Vonolagi | res-ump = S. Kelly Vonolagi Cooper Wilson | res-ump = Thompson
  Tutaia
  van Dyk Lewis
  Moseley
  Thomas | res-ump = K. Wright Rusivakula
  Vonolagi Lewis
  Moseley
  Thomas | res-ump = B. Brown Thompson Tutaia van Dyk Cooper Wilson | res-ump = A. Kloppers

Pool C

• Highlighted teams advanced to the quarter-finals. Remaining teams will contest classification matches. Radipotsane | res-ump = D. Hinds Fowler
  Griffiths Bootha
  Holtzhausen | res-ump = S. Kelly Li
  Tett Holtzhausen
  Mbewe | res-ump = J. Young-Strong Fowler
  Ffrench-Kentish
  Griffiths Moabi
  Radipotsane
  Rasekhumba | res-ump = C. McCabe Li Tett Soh Tan Ffrench-Kentish Fowler | res-ump = M. Johnson-Hurley Bootha
  Holtzhausen Radipotsane Rasekhumba | res-ump = D. Hinds

Pool D

• Highlighted teams advanced to the quarter-finals. Remaining teams will contest classification matches. Cookey
  Dunn
  Harten Kumwenda
  Simtowe | res-ump = B. Meek L. Browne
  Piggott Mohd Wazir
  Santhappan | res-ump = F. Meiklejohn Cookey
  Dunn
  Harten L. Browne
  Piggott | res-ump = J. Young-Strong Kumwenda
  Mvula
  Simtowe Mohd Nor
  Mohd Wazir
  Santhappan | res-ump = R. Ayre Simtowe L. Browne
  Piggott | res-ump = L. Travis Cookey Dunn Harten Mohd Nor Mohd Wazir Santhappan | res-ump = P. Ferguson

Classification matches

Round 1

Piggott | res-ump = R. Ayre Rusivakula
Vonolagi Soh Tan Tett | res-ump = P. Ferguson Faasavalu
Langi Santhappan | res-ump = G. Burgess Moabi
Rasekhumba Lewis Moseley
Thomas | res-ump = C. McCabe

Round 2

Sivalingam Soh
Tan | res-ump = T. Prince Mohd Nor
Mohd Wazir
Santhappan Radipotsane
Rasekhumba | res-ump = B. Meek Piggott Rusivakula
Vonolagi | res-ump = A. Kloppers Faasavalu Lewis
Moseley
Thomas | res-ump = K. Wright

Playoffs 9–16

Faasavalu
Langi
To'o L. Browne
Piggott | res-ump = A. Kloppers Mohd Nor
Mohd Wazir
Noor Azhar Li
Soh
Tan | res-ump = J. Bredin Moseley Rusivakula
Vonolagi | res-ump = C. McCabe Radipotsane
Rasekhumba Shalika
Sivalingam | res-ump = L. Travis

Finals matches

Following the pool play, Australia, Northern Ireland, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, England and Malawi advanced to the quarter-finals. England overwhelmed Northern Ireland to meet New Zealand, who beat South Africa, in one semi-final. Australia had a hard-fought victory over Malawi to meet Jamaica, who defeated the other Caribbean contender Trinidad and Tobago, in the other semi. New Zealand (49–34) and Australia (82–46) won their semi-finals leaving England and Jamaica to contest the bronze medal match, which England won 70–49.

The final between the Antipodean rivals was locked at 46 all after the regulation 60 minutes of playing time. New Zealand had dominated the first two quarters to open up a six-goal lead. Australia whittled the lead down and with a minute left New Zealand led by one, just needing to retain possession to win. However, Australia stole the ball and levelled the scores, and would have won had their next shot in the last play been successful. With the scores tied at the end of regulation time, two seven-minute periods of extra time were played. It was still even after the first half of extra time, with Australia eventually winning 58–57 in the dying seconds of extra time to claim their tenth World Championship title.

Quarter-finals

Cookey
Harten Lennon
McCullough
O'Hanlon | res-ump = B. Brown Thompson
Tutaia
van Dyk Holtzhausen | res-ump = J. Groves Cox
Medhurst Simtowe | res-ump = J. Bredin Ffrench-Kentish
Fowler
Griffiths Cooper
Wilson | res-ump = L. Travis

Semi-finals

van Dyk Cookey
Harten | res-ump = R. Ayre Bell
Cox
Medhurst Fowler
Griffiths | res-ump = G. Burgess

Semi-finals 5–8

Mvula
Simtowe Cooper
Wilson | res-ump = L. Travis Du Toit
Holtzhausen
Mbewe Lennon
McCullough | res-ump = F. Meiklejohn

7th place match

Cooper
Richardson
Wilson Lennon
McCullough
O'Hanlon | res-ump = F. Meiklejohn

5th place match

Simtowe Bootha
Holtzhausen | res-ump = J. Bredin

Bronze medal match

Harten Fowler
Griffiths | res-ump = B. Brown

Gold medal match

van Dyk Cox
Medhurst | res-ump = A. Kloppers

Final standings

Medallists

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