1979 Women's World Team Squash Championships

The 1979 Women's World Team Squash Championships were held in England and took place from March 15 until March 20, 1979.[1][2]

Women's World Team 1979
1st World Women's Team Championship
Location	England
Date(s)	March 15–20, 1979
Results
Champions	Great Britain
Runners-up	Australia
Third place	Ireland
1981 →

Results

[3][4][5]

Round Robin

Team One	Team Two	Score
Australia	Sweden	3-0
Great Britain	Canada	3-0
Sweden	United States	2-1
Australia	Ireland	3-0
Great Britain	Ireland	3-0
Great Britain	Australia	3-0
Great Britain	United States	3-0
Australia	Canada	3-0
Ireland	Sweden	3-0
Ireland	United States	3-0
Canada	Sweden	2-1
Canada	United States	3-0
Great Britain	Sweden
Australia	United States
Ireland	Canada

Pos	Nation	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	Great Britain	Sue Cogswell, Angela Smith, Teresa Lawes, Barbara Diggens, Jayne Ashton, Lesley Moore	5	5	0	10
2	Australia	Barbara Wall, Vicki Hoffman, Sue King, Rhonda Thorne, Anne Smith	5	4	1	8
3	Ireland	Geraldine Barniville, Dororthy Armstrong, Barbara Sanderson, Irene Hewitt	5	3	2	6
4	Canada	Shelagh Murray, Elaine Hinnegan, Ann Thompson, Penny Glover, Kay Widmer, Sue Pexman, Barbara Savage	5	2	3	4
5	Sweden	Katarina Due-Boje, Tina Dahl, Agneta Samuelson, Eva Lundqvist	5	1	4	2
6	United States	Mariann Greenberg, Carol Weymuller, Ginny Akabane, Barbara Maltby, Diana Nyad	5	0	5	0

Final

Great Britain 3	FINAL Edgbaston Priory, Birmingham, England 20 March 1979		Australia 0
1 2 3 4 5 1 Sue Cogswell Barbara Wall 9 6 9 3 9 1       2 Angela Smith Vicki Hoffman 9 7 7 9 9 3 9 5     3 Teresa Lawes Sue King 5 9 9 5 7 9 9 7 9 5

See also

• World Team Squash Championships
• World Squash Federation
• World Open (squash)

References

1. "Women's World Team Championship 1979" (PDF). worldsquash.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04.
2. "Times Archives". Oxfordshire Libraries. Archived from the original on 2018-07-19. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
3. "Sports results". Trove.
4. "Women's World Open". Trove.
5. "Women's World Teams 1979". Squash Site. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-09-04.

Preceded by None	Squash World Team England 1979	Succeeded by Canada 1981