2002 Women's Fistball World Championship

3rd World Championship 2002
Women
Number of nations	7th
World Champion	Switzerland
host	Brazil
city	Curitiba
opening	November 7, 2002
Endgame	November 10, 2002
Association	IFA
Number of games	28
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The 3rd women's fistball world championship took place in 2002 from 7-10 November in Curitiba ( Brazil ). Brazil hosted the Women's Fistball World Cup for the first time .

Attendees

A total of seven nations from three continents took part in the third women's fistball World Cup. For the first time, the women's national teams from Japan took part in a women's world championship .

Europe  Germany  Austria  Switzerland

South America  Argentina  Chile  Brazil

Asia  Japan

game schedule

Game mode

First of all, the seven participating nations played each against each other in the preliminary round. The semi-finals are played by the first four teams of the preliminary round, the fifth, sixth and seventh of the preliminary round played from places 5-7 in a simple round.

Preliminary round

Closing table

rank	country	sentences	Points
1	Germany	12: 1	12
2	Austria	10: 4	10
3	Brazil	9: 3	8th
4th	Switzerland	7: 7	6th
5	Argentina	5: 8	4th
6th	Chile	2:10	2
7th	Japan	0:12	0

Game results

07/11/2002	Germany	-	Argentina	2: 0 (20: 8, 20:16)
07/11/2002	Austria	-	Chile	2: 0 (20:11, 20:11)
07/11/2002	Brazil	-	Japan	2: 0 (20:10, 20: 6)
07/11/2002	Switzerland	-	Chile	2: 0 (20: 8, 20:12)
07/11/2002	Austria	-	Japan	2: 0 (20: 4, 20: 8)
07/11/2002	Germany	-	Brazil	2: 1 (21:23, 20:14, 20: 9)
07/11/2002	Switzerland	-	Argentina	2: 1 (20:22, 20: 6, 20:12)
11/08/2002	Switzerland	-	Japan	2: 0 (20: 5, 20: 4)
11/08/2002	Austria	-	Argentina	2: 0 (20:14, 20:15)
11/08/2002	Brazil	-	Chile	2: 0 (20: 8, 20:14)
11/08/2002	Argentina	-	Japan	2: 0 (20:12, 20:14)
11/08/2002	Germany	-	Chile	2: 0 (20: 9, 20: 4)
11/08/2002	Switzerland	-	Brazil	0: 2 (19:21, 16:20)
11/08/2002	Germany	-	Austria	2: 0 (20:14, 20:16)
11/09/2002	Brazil	-	Argentina	2: 0 (20:18, 20: 7)
11/09/2002	Chile	-	Japan	2: 0 (20: 6, 20:11)
11/09/2002	Switzerland	-	Austria	1: 2 (13:20, 20:16, 12:20)
11/09/2002	Germany	-	Japan	2: 0 (20: 2, 20: 8)
11/09/2002	Argentina	-	Chile	2: 0 (20:15, 20:14)
11/09/2002	Austria	-	Brazil	2: 1 (20:14, 15:20, 20:15)
11/09/2002	Switzerland	-	Germany	0: 2 (19:21, 18:20)

Finals

Game for places 5-7

11/10/2002	09:30	Japan	-	Chile	0: 2	(10:20, 6:20)
11/10/2002	10:30	Japan	-	Argentina	0: 2	(5:20, 9:20)
11/10/2002	14:00	Chile	-	Argentina	0: 2	(15:20, 20:22)

Semifinals

11/10/2002	11:30	Germany	-	Switzerland	1: 2	(23:21, 17:20, 15:20)
11/10/2002	12:45	Austria	-	Brazil	0: 2	(18:20, 24:25)

3rd place match

11/10/2002

15:15

Germany

-

Austria

not carried out

final

11/10/2002

15:15

Switzerland

-

Brazil

2: 1

(16:20, 23:21, 15:23)

referee

Six referees from five nations led the matches at these women's world championships.

Europe Daniel Ohmes Germany  Johann Geisecker Austria  Bruno Mahler Switzerland

South America Carlos Kronenberg Argentina  Gastao Englert Brazil  George Schuch Brazil

Placements

rank	country
1.	Switzerland
2.	Brazil
3.	Germany
	Austria
5.	Argentina
6th	Chile
7th	Japan

The 3rd place was not played out and therefore awarded to both of the losing semi-finalists.

Web link

• Fistball World Cup 2002 at the TGD Essen ( Memento from January 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive )