England's Women have won the silver medal in the Venice Cup at the World Championships. This great result means that England's Women have won medals in the last three Venice Cups - the only country to do so since 2003 - and in seven of the last eight major World and European competitions. Congratulations to Sally Brock & Fiona Brown, Catherine Draper & Nicola Smith, and Sandra Penfold & Nevena Senior (with NPC Derek Patterson and Coach David Burn).
The final against China started well, but the tide turned in the second session, and after five sessions England were willing to concede defeat.
NPC's blog: Derek Patterson, NPC for the team, has been writing a blog during the championship, and you can read it here.
Final v. China |
Thursday 24th | Session 1 33-17 33-17 |
Session 2 26-51 59-68 |
Session 3 14-47 73-115 |
Friday 25th | Session 4 21-52 94-167 |
Session 5 13-39 107-206 |
Session 6 England conceded |
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Semifinal v. Sweden |
Tuesday 22nd | Session 1 42-12 |
Session 2 56-23 98-35 |
Session 3 19-52 117-87 |
Wednesday 23rd | Session 4 34-55 151-142 |
Session 5 33-29 184-171 |
Session 6 21-12 205-184 |
Quarterfinal v. Russia |
Sunday 20th | Session 1 43-21 |
Session 2 58-24 101-45 |
Session 3 32-53 133-98 |
Monday 21st | Session 4 8-42 141-140 |
Session 5 42-32 183-172 |
Session 6 37-27 220-199 |
Sunday 13th | France 13.97 VPs 8th |
Egypt 16.58 VPs 2nd |
Australia 18.66 VPs 2nd |
Monday 14th | Sweden 5.61 VPs 3rd |
India 17.97 VPs 2nd |
USA 2 5.61 VPs 3rd |
Tuesday 15th | USA 1 3.12 VPs 5th |
Indonesia 5.61 VPs 9th |
New Zealand 17.31 VPs 6th |
Wednesday 16th | Netherlands 10.31 VPs 7th |
Chinese Taipei 14.60 VPs 6th |
Jordan 18.87 VPs 6th |
Thursday 17th | China 15.92 VPs 3rd |
Brazil 19.25 VPs 2nd |
Morocco 17.31 VPs 2nd |
Friday 18th | Israel 4.81 VPs 2nd |
Argentina 10.61 VPs 4th |
Russia 2.28 VPs 6th |
Saturday 19th | Canada 19.69 VPs 4th |
Italy 13.75 VPs 5th |
Poland 4.62 VPs 6th |
The competition is part of the World Team Championships which are taking place in Lyon. The Open and Senior teams failed to qualify from the European Championships for the Bermuda Bowl and D'Orsi Bowl respectively. USA2 was winners of the both of those competitions.
Update: In the Transnational Teams which ran in parallel with the main events, the Percy team of Peter Crouch, David Gold, Andrew Robson, Anita Sinclair, Zia Mahmood (USA) & Marion Michielsen (Netherlands) (with Marshall Lewis of Croatia as NPC) finished in third place.
August 29, 2017