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Netball
Netball is one of the core Commonwealth Games sports, so must be included in the sporting program of each Games. 1998 was the first Commonwealth Games in which a Netball competition was held, and has been included in all since.
Trivia
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Netball is the only female only sport at the Commonwealth Games.
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Australia and New Zealand have fought out every gold medal match so far (four times) with the teams tied up so far 2-2 (1998-2010). The evenness of the two nations was highlighted by the final in 2010, which had to go into double overtime before New Zealand finally won.
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England has won the bronze medal three of out the four times this event has been held, with Jamaica winning the other.
Competition
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The competition is conducted according to the rules of the International Federation of Netball Associations (IFNA)
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It is a women-only Netball competition. The competition consists of two pools of six teams playing each other in a round-robin tournament, with the two leading teams in each pool advancing to the finals.
Related Pages
- for information about the sport of Netball, go here.
- See the list of Commonwealth Games sports