Women’s Singles Finals

Year	Venue	Champion	Runner-Up
	Small Ball		
1997	Winnipeg, Canada	Sydell Smith	Barbara Canton
2000	Des Plaines, USA	Karen McConney	Dori Ten
2009	Portland, Oregon	Tracy Davis	Danielle Daskalakis
2012	Dublin, Ireland	Tracy Davis	Sandy Ng
	Big Ball		
2003	Kilkenny City, Ireland	Anna Calderon	Lian Chin
2006	Edmonton, Canada	Theresa McCourt	Na Liu
2009	Portland, Oregon	Karen McConney	Brenda Pares-Dubose
2012	Dublin, Ireland	Michelle Melendez	Jessica Lopez
2015	Calgary, Canada	Danielle Daskalakis	Sandy Ng

Report

The World Handball Council World One-Wall Championships have taken place every three years since 1997, with Kilkenny City (2003) and Dublin (2012) hosting the Games for Ireland. It is due to be played hosted again in Dublin in 2021.

About World Handball

Handball is described on the GAA Handball website as the only real GAA World Sport. The World Handball Council says Handball was first played in Ireland, and it is very popular throughout the United States of America and Canada, with the World Handball Players the top Professional Competition, and variations such as Inner City Handball. It is also played in Puerto Rico, Mexico, Central America, Australia and Japan, and throughout Europe (see European Handball for more details)

References

Images

[1] US Handball (2020) WHClogo [Internet] Available from: https://www.ushandball.org/images/photos/WHClogo.jpeg [Accessed 15 May 2018]

Websites

[2] US Handball (2015) World One-Wall [Internet] Available from: https://www.ushandball.org/index.php/health/403world-one-wall [Accessed 12 May 2018]

[3] R2 Sports (2015) 2018 World Handball Championships [Internet] Available from: https://www.r2sports.com/website/event-results.asp?TID=22540 [Accessed 14 August 2020]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Jillian Glynn.

About this document

Researched, compiled and written by Enda Mulcahy for the

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Last Updated: 13 November 2020

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